The New Land (1972)

Max von Sydow: Karl Oskar

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• Kristina : I'm not accepting everything you do.

  Karl-Oskar : Trust me, Kristina.

  Kristina : You think you're the cleverest. You never ask us.

  Karl-Oskar : I ask for your advice, sometimes.

  Kristina : Perhaps, sometimes, but you always do what you like.

• Kristina : Let's go on. They might harm us.

  Karl-Oskar : Anders says the Indians aren't that hostile.

• Karl-Oskar : Are you stuck?

  Ulrika : [laughs]  It's your fault. You made the chair too small. You're old enough to know, that women are broader than men. God made us like that so we lie firmly on our backs when obeying his commandment to be fruitful.

• Danjel : We were meant to move here. We must have neither regret nor fear.

  Karl-Oskar : I regret it! I regret not having moved here 6 years ago, when I became of age. No one's going to move me now. And that's the truth as I'm sitting on this here chopping block.

• Karl-Oskar : If you shot an Indian you've brought disaster on us.

• Kristina : Karl-Oskar, don't you ever long for the old country?

  Karl-Oskar : Sometimes, maybe.

  Kristina : I can't help it.

  Karl-Oskar : Dearest. Wait, I'll get you something.

  Kristina : Anna's old shoe!

  Karl-Oskar : It helps me to remember. When I'm homesick. Maybe it can help you too. One day our children will thank us for coming here to America.

  Kristina : You think so?

  Karl-Oskar : I feel it. I know it.

  Kristina : Maybe. One never knows.

• Karl-Oskar : Kristina, do you remember when we moved here last fall, you said it was almost as pretty as back home in Duvemåla? Maybe we could call our home here Duvemåla. What do you say to that? Or New Duvemåla.

  Kristina : Just think, that I - Duvemåla.

  Karl-Oskar : Yeah.

  Kristina : Then we don't live at Ki-Chi-Saga any more. We live at Duvemåla.

• Karl-Oskar : Tomorrow I'm going to put my new plow in American soil for the first time.

• Immigrant Carpenter : Whining and grumbling until moss grows on his prick.

  [to his assistant] 

  Immigrant Carpenter : You'll have to do what Samuel Nojd did. Take one of the brown ones to do it.

  Karl-Oskar : I could never go to bed with an Indian woman.

  Immigrant Carpenter : You'd crawl over there, you too. Nothing wrong with the box, even if they're smallish.

• Jonas Petter : You must correct your foolish wife, Nilsson! Help us make her see the error of her ways.

  Karl-Oskar : This is absurd!

  Jonas Petter : Yes, it is.

  Karl-Oskar : Kristina has the right to open her door to anyone she likes. Don't you give orders in my house! I'm in no need of a guardian, nor is my wife. Now it's been said, once and for all.

• Kristina : Aren't we Swedes anymore?

  Karl-Oskar : We don't belong there anymore, you know that.

• Kristina : You want to enlist to ease your conscience?

  Karl-Oskar : Yes, that's right.

  Kristina : What does your conscience say about the fifth commandment? Thou shalt not kill.

  Karl-Oskar : That doesn't apply in war.

  Kristina : The catechism doesn't say war is excepted.

  Karl-Oskar : One has a right to defend oneself.

  Kristina : And the man you kill? He has the same right.

  Karl-Oskar : Kristina, you don't want me to do it.

  Kristina : I don't want you to kill anyone. I don't want you to go into eternity guilty of bloodshed, that's why. If you take another's life, you lose your own. I don't want your soul to be lost. Take care of your everlasting life.

• Kristina : I want to be your wife again. I've come back to you. Don't you want me?

  Karl-Oskar : You don't know what you're doing, Kristina! You're causing pain to yourself.

  Kristina : Don't worry, I know what I'm doing.

  Karl-Oskar : We can't risk your life.

  Kristina : My life is in the hands of the Almighty.

  Karl-Oskar : It's too dangerous. How dare you?

  Kristina : It's easy. I don't care about the doctor. I trust in God. If I live, it is His will. If I die, it is His will.

• Karl-Oskar : Don't you trust in God, Larrsson?

  Larrsson : He only helps those who help themselves.

  Karl-Oskar : That's what I've always thought.

• Kristina : You're not to worry, Karl-Oskar. I'll soon be well. I know it. - - In the parish they're chiming the bells.

  Karl-Oskar : Somebody...

  Kristina : Why?

  Karl-Oskar : I wonder as well. Maybe for someone who - someone...

• Karl-Oskar : [as Kristina dies]  Kristina! Stay!