Escape from East Berlin (1962)

Christine Kaufmann: Erika Jurgens

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• Erika Jurgens : I understand. You have to be careful about what you say. I should be more careful too; but, I don't care! I hate it here. I hate living in this cage.

• Erika Jurgens : I've already caused you great trouble; but, I still wish you would tell me the truth. If - if you had a chance to get out, would you go?

  Ingeborg Schröder : What do you think?

  Mother Schröder : For myself, I've never cared much for traveling. But, I don't like being told where to go and where not to go.

  Ingeborg Schröder : Do you know I always thought these travel buses were the corniest thing in the world. Crowded busses jammed with people all going places. Now, I wouldn't mind being in one of those buses and I also wouldn't care where I was going.

• Erika Jurgens : You people are always saying something is impossible. Because it gives you an excuse for doing nothing. It's the same at home. All my father worries about is our fine furniture and his next promotion.

  Kurt Schröder : Your father is a very sensible man!

  Erika Jurgens : I don't want to live with that. I want to get away from everybody who accepts this world as if it were right and normal. I want to get out!

• Erika Jurgens : Maybe we're crazy; but, the idea of being free is in our minds now. And in the end, we'll try!

  Kurt Schröder : Wait! If you really want to go across, I'll give you a little advice. You don't go over the wall and you don't go through. You go this way - under.

• Erika Jurgens : Why does it happen so often that when I look at you I want to weep? What? What are you afraid of? That you let yourself believe in something and it may turn out to be a lie? You're playing a game. You're trying to be hard and cold and detached from it all. It doesn't fool me anymore.