A Promise (2013)
Rebecca Hall: Lotte Hoffmeister
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Quotes
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Somebody once said, I can't remember who, that music can exist without the world but the *world* cannot exist without music.
Friedrich Zeitz : I believe it was Goethe.
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[last lines]
Friedrich Zeitz : We walked down this very same path with Otto. You remember?
Lotte Hoffmeister : Yes. He kept running on ahead and we'd almost lost him for the umpteenth time. I kept calling him to come back. But actually I just wanted to be alone with you. We were strangers then.
Friedrich Zeitz : As now.
Lotte Hoffmeister : [responding to his touch] Don't ever leave me again. Don't ever leave me.
Friedrich Zeitz : I will never ever leave you from now on.
Lotte Hoffmeister : It took us a long time to get here.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Herr Zeitz? I'm Frau Hoffmeister.
Friedrich Zeitz : Herr Hoffmeister's wife?
Lotte Hoffmeister : Of course. I'm not his mother.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Music means more to me than anything in the world. Except my husband and son of course.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Dinner's at 7:30. My husband's a stickler for punctuality, he likes his soup served on the dot.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : So eventually I asked the riding master for a quieter horse. And he says to me: Madam, a horse is like a mirror. It reflects everything you fear or dare to do, so if your horse refuses a fence it is you who are not ready for it.
Karl Hoffmeister : It sounds like that Viennese doctor that claims he can read your thoughts by listening to your dreams. What's his name again?
Lotte Hoffmeister : As if you didn't know.
[to Friedrich]
Lotte Hoffmeister : And my husband loves to play the village idiot.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Your my husband's assistant and I'm his wife. Let's agree to be frank with each other.
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Friedrich Zeitz : I do like your scent.
Lotte Hoffmeister : Thank you.
Friedrich Zeitz : What is it?
Lotte Hoffmeister : Young man, don't you know better than to ask a lady her scent?
Friedrich Zeitz : No, I'm afraid, I didn't. But if I don't ask how can I find out?
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Friedrich Zeitz : We can't keep doing this.
Lotte Hoffmeister : Doing what?
Friedrich Zeitz : Lying to each other.
Lotte Hoffmeister : Lying to each other? What on earth are you imagining, Herr Zeitz? Who do you think you are? And what do you think I am?
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Will you still want me? We'll make a - a vow to each other. A promise to love each other. Do you see?
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Lotte Hoffmeister : I can't live without you.
Friedrich Zeitz : Why didn't you tell me?
Lotte Hoffmeister : Tell you what? You already knew.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Hans, what does that bell mean?
Hans, the Butler : It means we are at war, Ma'am.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : How I wish this war would end. I don't care whether we win or lose as long as it is over.
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[repeated lines]
Lotte Hoffmeister : No. Not here, no. Not now.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Friedrich, welcome back.
Friedrich Zeitz : I hope I haven't been too long.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : Nothing has changed. Everything's the same.
Friedrich Zeitz : No, nothing has changed. Except us.
Lotte Hoffmeister : I haven't forgotten my promise to you.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : The only thing that keeps me alive is the memory of our love. It is for our love that I am in mourning. Your skin, my skin, our union.
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Lotte Hoffmeister : I am frightened, I've got nothing to hold on to. The world of yesterday, the world I knew, is vanishing. And I can't endure the present.