"I'll give my heart just to one man" "The greatest love since time began" "He'll come my way and he'll be strong" "And he will sing me love's sweet song" " What happened Mr. Höfgen?" " What do you want?" "I don't need you now!" "Go to hell!" "We're invited to a boring banquet." "Sorry, but we have to leave now." "Can't you sit with us, Dora?" "No, we're much too late." "Sorry, good evening." "I wanted to say you were marvelous tonight." "It was fantastic." "Thank God I saw it." "You fraud, you didn't see the show." "Never mind, you're talented." "Me?" "Talented?" "Say it louder." "Yes, you're very talented, Herr Höfgen." "I'm sure you'll soon be able to show just how talented you are." "I must be going, goodbye." " Böck." "Seven marks." " But Hendrik  if you need money I can lend you fifty marks." "This is men's business." "Böck likes giving money." "Good evening, Miklas." "Thank you." "So  Doctor Kroge lets me starve." "Höfgen, you old sinner!" "Take a seat." "Well, Director, how'd you like the show?" "What's getting you down, Hendrik?" "That I'm a provincial actor." "is that all?" "Nothing else?" "Hello." "You're late." "One day, I'll come to fetch you." "Don't you dread that, Heinz?" " Please don't call me Heinz." " Why not?" "That's your name." "I dislike it." "Understand?" "Perfectly, Heinz." "You can't even drink a beer like a man who feels like drinking one." "Shall we start?" "What was that about beer?" "It's not your style, simply to call for a beer." ""A beer, please" sounds phony when you say it." "I don't drink, Juliette." "I know, Heinz." "Take your shoes off." "Come on..." "One, two..." "One, two one, two, three, four..." "On one..." "Don't fall down now." "Faster!" "Faster!" "Show me what you can do." "You want to be an actor and show off for money, too?" "You comical picture of misery." "If you liked this music, you wouldn't get tired." "You always laugh at me, Juliette." "I can't cry." "Would you love me if I could cry?" "I love you anyway." "You only love yourself, Heinz, and even then not enough." "Keep talking." "What you say is very nice." "Your only concern is your face being devoid of human expression." "It's a mask, you hear?" "I, too, have skin and bones and body weight and eyebrows and fingernails, just like you." "I, too, feel the cold." "I can be hungry and thirsty." "I, too, think of my mother." "And I know there ar e Philistines and Communists." "But my eyes are not my eyes." "My legs are not mine, my face is not mine." "My name is not my name, because I am an actor!" "Do you know what it means to be an actor?" "An actor is a mask among human beings." "Juliette..." "Juliette..." "Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honor of welcoming you to the first reading of the play." "May I introduce our guest, Nicoletta von Niebuhr who will play the female lead in this production." "Do you mind if my friend watches the rehearsal?" "I have no objection." " Two cognacs, please." " Yes, director." "Coming up right away." "Three beers, please." "There you go." "Please excuse me." "Please excuse me." "Father Hansemann..." "Hendrik, will we look lovely in this play?" "We are lovely." "May I introduce my best friend, Barbara Bruckner?" "Nice to meet you." "What?" "There's a nice smell of lavender about you." "Can you smell the lavender, too?" "How shocking, on a man." "But I need it like my daily bread." "A little on the temples is as good as a night's sleep." "Sleep would be better, but there's no time." "A beer and a mineral water." "We'll hear what he has to say  use the good bits, then play it our way." "He's good, but old-fashioned." "The future of Hamburg Art Theater is me." "I mean the two of us." "Most of the plays her e ar e shallow bourgeois stuff." "But we visualize theater that will involve everyone the workers, the dockers." "Wher e will you perform this theater?" "It doesn't matter." "In the docks, factories, cellars." "They asked me about the play." "We pr omised it for last week." "Let's get this opening night over first." "We must prove that theater has a political function." "Befor e it can be political or r evolutionary, it first has to be good." "Which actors will be in this sort of theater?" "All who think like us." "Even workers." "It's what we say, not how we say it." "But I've no qualms if Hendrik stages our plays." "Go on." "Why are you looking at me?" "Am I not allowed to?" "If it pleases you, go ahead." "Without you, I'll be finished, Barbara." "Ther e's too much evil in me." "Alone, I'm too weak to overcome it, but you could help me." "I can't talk anymore." "So many thoughts are just parts I've played." "I love you, Barbara." "I'm in love." "With a woman." "Juliette, am I a good looking man?" "I've never seen you on stage." "Maybe you're handsome, but frankly, I've never found you good looking, but sometimes your cold cheating eyes are those of a sad child." "You do it well." "Who have you fallen for?" " A girl." " Great." "Y ou falling in love..." "One day you may just learn how to walk, not just dance." "Love the girl, Heinz, and don't tell me anything about her." " Do we keep in touch?" " Yes." "You know what?" "I'm coming with you." "I have nothing to lose, Heinz." "Are you crazy?" "See a psychiatrist." "Though I'm sure you wouldn't dare talk about yourself." "Go, Heinz." "We'll meet soon anyway even if I don't want to." "Grandmother, have you a moment?" " l'd like to introduce..." " Your fiancé." "I have to take a closer look at my new grandson." "Not bad at all." "Excuse my mother please, she will be here shortly." "I assume you know, my dear Höfgen that loving mothers rarely want their only sons to leave the nest." "Hello, Sebastian." "That is Sebastian." "Mom." "I'm really pleased." "Barbara, my dear child." "And I'm Nicoletta von Niebuhr the bride's best friend, almost her sister." "Often, the bridegroom's mistress." "Only onstage, of course." "May I call you Aunt Bella?" "But of course, Nicoletta." "Let us leave the ladies to themselves." "I'd like to show you my garden." "I'd love to see it." "Have you unsettling memories, too?" "You know, Barbara, memories that give you the creeps?" "When I was about twelve, I got into our school choir." "I was overjoyed. I thought I could sing better than the other boys." "We had to sing in church at some wedding." "I wanted to show off." "I was so proud of my soprano voice." "I had a great idea. I sang one octave higher than the others." "As I stood there, proudly singing the music teacher looked at me more in disgust than disapproval and he said softly, "Just keep quiet."" "Do you understand?" "Softly and dryly he said, "Just keep quiet."" "When I felt I was singing like an angel." "Do you have such memories?" "No." "You've never felt ashamed in your life." "I often have." "That was the first time." "I often have to feel awfully ashamed of myself." "So ashamed, I could sink down into hell." "Do you understand me?" "This is the basement r oom." "The window faces the str eet." "Here's a lamp post and here, too." "Behind it the bakery..." " ...with workers' wives lined up." " Stop!" "Great." "Ms. Schult, you come up past the window." "Barbara, can you put a lamp post here with a light to dazzle the audience?" "Then you come here. "l'm Widow Queck who hasn't paid the rent."" "We could have several mor e lamp posts in the auditorium so people feel they'r e r eally in their filthy street." "We'll have posters, recent political slogans, all jumbled up." "At the back, a grocer's shop, with nothing to sell, of course." "Everything in the hall must express what we talk about." "Two policemen can patrol the rows and stare at the audience." "An end to passive watching, actors and public isolated from each other." "The public must play an active part." "The days of the peepshow are over." "The actor is only one element of the performance  not it's focal point." "The hall, lights, walls, movements, sounds, all must blend into a whole." "Only then shall we have real theater." "The workers need total theater." "One that shocks and arouses." "I am the widow Queck, who cannot pay the rent. I work for the baker." "It's the only way I can feed my seven hungry childr en." "The half-hour has to be paid for." "We've been waiting half an hour." "Here reigns logic and hunger." "I already owe you 31 marks and 25 pfennigs." "I've had nothing these past few days." "Silly goose !" "Sabotaging our work!" "Do you think I don't know why?" "Miklas or one of his damn party friends has put you up to it!" " What do you want from me?" " Why don't you prompt her?" "!" "Never mind!" "Revolutionary Theatre can't be staged with provincial hams." "With amateurs, you can't create any sort of theatre." "Even revolutions need professionals!" "I'll buy you a drink to celebrate." "Revolutionary Theater is a big flop." "You're beside yourself with joy." "Hello." "Two stiff ones, Hansemann." "How about another rebellious evening?" "I'd like to invite you to dinner." "What, me?" " Good morning." " Morning." "You're still half asleep." "I'm awake." "I've even phoned our grocer, he's a bit impatient over our large bill." "I'm sorry. I don't present a picture of early morning freshness." "If I, too, went riding every morning I'd probably look more attractive." "But in our circles, such noble sport is not customary." "The offended husband, as in Moliére." "Oh, be quiet." "It's not customary to sit all night at a Nazi thug's table." " Miklas is not a thug." " All Nazis are thugs." "You must avoid their company." "Their dirt rubs off on you." "But you can't understand. lt's your family's well known liberalism." "No political beliefs, just curiosity." "ldeologies are psychological quirks." "I feel sorry for Miklas." "He gets small parts and earns very little." "You all treat him very badly." "He's at a loss, that's why he's with them." "So much understanding for that lousy brat." "How do you think they'd tr eat us if they came to power?" "God forbid." "And yet you sit and chat with him." "It's you bourgeois tolerance." "This understanding of one's enemy." "I'm sure you could even excuse Fascist terrorism." "Your liberalism might even get used to dictatorship." "No, thank you." "May I r emark  it's common practice to eat an egg fr om its shell and with salt." "I know, in the Bruckner household you eat it from a glass with six spices, and that's very original  but no need to make fun of those unaccustomed to such originality." " Who's juvenile lead in Halberstadt?" " Herbert Boltz." "Wher e's Ms. Türkheim-Gawernitz now?" "In Heidelberg." " And Hannelor e Kühn." " Mannheim." " And who's Othello ther e?" " Max Krause." " And Iago?" " Johannes Fiedler." " And Desdemona in Leipzig?" " Kathe Müttel." "Who's the ingénue in Jena?" "A stupid cow called Lotte Lindenthal." "Why is Lotte Lindenthal a stupid cow?" "I don't know, but she is." "I know why you insult her." "She's the friend of a National Socialist leader." "I'm only moderately inter ested in the names and titles of her lovers." "Must be quite a long list..." "Watch your tongue, Höfgen!" "Y ou won't insult a lady because she's in the Nazi German worker's party and the friend of a German hero." "Y ou won't stand for it?" "My, my..." "Stop it, you'r e drunk." "I'm not." "On the contrary." "Apparently I'm the only one her e with a spark of honor left." "Nobody in this Jew-ridden business cares if a lady is insulted." "Let me !" "No !" "Go away!" "I'll gladly believe you'r e not drunk." "Y ou won't make that an ex cuse, then." "As for this Jew-ridden business you're in you won't suffer it much longer." "That I pr omise you." "Perhaps you'r e right." "I agree, the fellow's behavior was intolerable  but I can't just fir e a poor, sick man like that." "Sick?" "He's not sick at all." "Why this indecision and compromise?" "It's just like our government parties." "E cuse me, Barbara." "We must show this murder ous pack it can't get away with it." "I beg you, don't insist that he be sacked on the spot." "It's punishment enough that he won't be hir ed for next season." "He has no idea what he said last night, he just went wild." "I'm amazed, Otto." "I'm r eally amazed that you, of all people, should say that." "I don't want him made a martyr." " ln the political situation..." " Excuse me if I interrupt." "This conversation is quite pointless." "The case is simple." "Either Miklas leaves the theater or I do." "That's nonsense." "Higher, higher!" "Higher, higher!" "Enough!" "This isn't a funeral march!" "Again." "Lights!" "Sorry, to interrupt." "Dr. Kr oge asks you to appr ove the next poster." "I must take it to the printer." "Can't I get my name spelled correctly even in this theatr e?" "My name is not Henrik, but Hendrik!" "Hendrik Höf gen." "One day they'll all have to mark my name." "Try to understand, doctor." "I can't and won't tie myself down." "It's a great strain to stay under contract." "I must be fr ee." "Fr ee." "I can't be a provincial matinee idol." "No, no, I don't want to be that." "Y ou want to leave Hamburg for good?" "I don't know yet." "The Professor invited me to a Berlin guest appearance." "One never knows." "By the way, Dora Martin will be my partner." "Good." "Then accept the offer." "Thank you." "Berlin." "Thank you, ladies." "Till tomorr ow." "Goodbye." "So you are Höfgen." "You have friends here." "Some of them, who understand theater, recommended you to me." "Your father-in-law, too, when we met at the ministry." "And Dora Martin, as well." "In r eal life I may seem a bit nondescript, but not, I hope on stage." "My father-in-law once aptly described my ability to transform myself." "Well, we'll give you a try." "Don't expect too much." "I'm not offering anything big." "You are probably used to a reasonable income in Hamburg." "Here you'll have less." "Have you expensive tastes?" "Money doesn't inter est me." "My needs are modest." "All I need every day is a clean shirt and a drop of cologne." "Discuss the details with Miss Bernhardt." "Please give my regards to your father-in-law." " Hendrik Höf gen." " Oh, yes." "Bernhardt." "Her e's your contract." "Thank you." " May I?" " Please." "700 marks a month, less tax." "You agree to play as cast." "Please give these flowers... ..and this card to Ms. Martin, will you?" "THANKS !" "Well, Hendrik Höf gen." "Now You're a beginner again." "Hamburg's fame, routine and security all lie behind you." "Now you must summon up all your str ength." "And we'll work off that blubber." " Who is that?" " Dora Martin's Hamburg actor lover." " No, Miss Bernhardt's." " Y ou'r e misinformed, dear." "So glad you were able to come, despite all your work." "May I introduce some of your admirers?" "Mr. Davidson of the London Times." "Caser von Muck, Mr. Müller-Andrea." "Mind you aren't influenced by the pr evailing cultur e Bolshevism." "What do you mean?" "German cultur e can only be r enewed if it r eturns to its national r oots to its essence of blood and soil." "Russian ravings or French farces are alien to the spirit the nation needs." "Have you met Mr. Höf gen?" "Berlin's new star, according to tomorrow's London Times." "I've seen you on stage." "You danced, didn't you?" "Y es, I like dancing." "I had a good teacher." "I'd like to model your head." "No necktie and no gold we've got We'r e just a very shabby lot" "At which the bourgeois spits" "The bourgeois with polished boots And medals on morning suits" "And every morning he ablutes for church, or for the Ritz" "Where does the bourgeois get it all?" "His guns his celebration ball?" "He steals it where he can" "He makes it hard for us to r ob Takes it all, the gr eedy slob" "Exploits the poor and wrecks the job of every working man" "Oh, if so wealthy I could be, Commit like him grand larceny" "All honored since my birth lf then I met someone I knew, You filthy lot, I'd spit at you" "That's all you dogs are worth!" "Get the Jews out of here !" "They are completely drunk." "Now one of the most famous State Theater actors, Hendrik Höfgen." "Forget State Theater and fame." "I am your comrade Hendrik Höfgen." "What does the pr oletariat want?" "That nobody should rule !" "What does the pr oletariat want?" "That nobody should rule !" "Nobody shall give orders Nobody shall be a slave" "Freedom, equality for all souls I'll dictate." "Headline :" "Actor Höfgen wins Berlin workers' hearts overnight." "New paragraph." " Hendrik?" " Hello." "I bought this picture at the antique dealer." "You don't mind?" "Why should I mind?" "You can admire it while I go and change." "I love you, Barbara." "Not only your father and grandmother." "I love you..." "I, Hendrik Höfgen." "Welcome to my home, dear Sebastian." "The theater awaits me." "Up!" "Up!" "Two !" "Three !" "Four!" "Five !" "Six !" "Führer!" "We are our people's strength!" "We shall cr eate a new world!" " What's your father's job?" " Road digger!" " And your father's?" " Farmer!" " And yours?" " Teacher." "He educates us!" " And your father?" " Baker." "He bakes our bread!" "Mine's a miller." "He grinds our grain!" "A doctor." "He makes us healthy!" "Bricklayer." "He builds our houses!" " Conductor!" " Electrician!" "We are the sons of one people, we all have the same goal!" "Unity and strength!" "We follow the Führer!" "No." "That's not convincing enough." "Say it like this..." " Again... one, two, three." " Unity and strength!" " Again... one, two, three." " Unity and strength!" "Again!" "Unity and strength!" " Louder!" "Again!" " Unity and strength!" "We follow the Führer!" "Blood is a very special juice  let us in depths of sensuousness assuage our burning passions." "No bounds and goals are set for you." "You find your pleasure." "A fleeing treasur e." "May you enjoy the prize you get." "Help yourself and don't be coy." "But listen, it's not a question of joy." "To knowledge I'm devoted, most painful gratification." "Most hateful love, most vexing stimulation." "Believe me, who countless years on this hard nourishment has fed." "That from cradle to the grave, no human can digest so stale a bread." "Believe me, worlds celestial and infernal for one divinity wer e made." "He exists in eternal light." "But us, into the darkness, has conveyed ther e's day and night alone." "Yet I want that!" "That's well worth hearing." "But ther e's one thing I fear." "For time is short, but art is long." "If I thought you sought mor e teaching, cultivate a poet fond of pr eaching." "Let his thoughts wander." "And every noble quality upon your br ow let him bestow the lion's courage, the buck's swiftness." "The Italian's fiery blood, the north's enduring pluck." "He'll teach you the secr et vile of magnanimity steeped in guile." "May his youthful drives uncover to make of you an ardent lover." "I'd like to meet a scholar of such fame to Microcosm I'd change his name." "So what am I, if it's not possible the paragon of humanity to attain towards all my senses strain?" "You're in the end just what you are." "Put on the wigs of a million curls." "Put your feet in elevating socks." "Y ou'll stay for ever what you a e !" "Bravo !" "Wonderful!" "Y ou wer e fantastic, Hendrik." "Y ou wer e born to play Mephisto." "Y ou say that with a touch of malice, Dora." "Not true, I don't detest people for what they are." " Anyway, thank you for coming." " Let's skip the cliches." " What's your next pr oject?" " l'm learning English." "English?" "Why?" " l'll be working in America." " But why?" "Here the curtain's descending." "Haven't you noticed?" "You're at the top her e, hit after hit." "Thousands ador e you." "So why go?" "Thousands!" "Soon they'll be raving about others." "Ther e'll always be theater, no matter what happens in Germany." "No matter what happens in Germany?" "Y ou r eally mean that?" "Well, all the best." "I'm leaving in a few days." "In a few days?" "I don't want to wait till it's too late." "But you'll always do well, Hendrik  no matter what happens in Germany." "It's open." "Mephisto, I never lock the door." "need neither bolts nor life insurance." " l bet you've taken one out." " l need no life insurance." "Sit down, sir, in my new home." "You could have gotten me a nicer flat." " Have you registered with the police?" " Yes, sir." "What did the landlord say?" "Nothing." "He was drunk, humming a song..." "No neckties, no gold we've got..." "He gave me the key and I moved in." "I've been looking to see you." " And how's your wife?" " She's with her father, thank God." "They'r e worried about the Republic." "In Hamburg, the foreigners were also very worried about Germany about German culture, whose Number-One-Parr ot you are." "As if a peril threatened it." "What are the Jews planning against Germany?" "Even the whores wonder and they don't care about the pant color as long as it has a fly." "Barbara understands politics, doesn't she?" "is she keeping an eye on you?" "No." "Mostly her opinions are the opposite of mine." " Have you told her so?" " No." "What point would there be?" "Words don't say everything." "I'd like very much to sleep with you." "Shall I make up the bed?" "Yes!" "Hendrik!" "Hendrik!" "Hendrik, wake up!" "Didn't you here?" "You're here already?" "I came on the early train, because of you." " What's the matter?" " When did you go to bed?" "I'm tir ed. I was tossing all night." "Why?" "The Nazis have won the elections." "You know who became Chancellor?" "No." "Do you hear that?" "Do you hear that?" "That Bohemian corporal has become Chancellor?" "Here, read it." "I thought there was nothing to fear from the Nazis." "Remember that business with Miklas?" "That could have unpleasant consequences." "What do we do now?" "Keep a clear head and don't panic." "So, the Austrian clown has become Reichs-Chancellor." "But there still is the opposition, no?" "Communists and Social Democrats." "They'll make sure he doesn't get too big for his boots." "Perhaps there'll even be armed resistance." "And even if the Nazis stay in power, why should it concern me?" "I'm from the Rhineland." "So are my parents." "What can happen to us?" "On top of that, I'm an actor." "No?" "I go to the theater, play my parts, then go back home." "That's all." "Some people are leaving a country where a career in the arts is now impossible." "People will think you don't care about anything beyond the limelight?" "There were elections in a democratic state." "One party won, that's all." "I've never been inter ested in politics, so why now?" "Don't you r ealize what's happening here?" "Don't answer it. I'm not here, I'm sick." "Say what you want." "is that any solution?" "To lock yourself in, to hide, not be at home?" "is that all you can think of, instead of taking a definite stand?" "Definite... this is my answer!" "Hamlet!" "Shakespeare !" "Either we take a stand or go, if our freedom is in danger." "This is the only form of freedom for me, for an actor." "You can't hide behind Shakespeare, on the stage." "Barbara, I'm an actor." "An actor in Germany at all times." "You can go away." "Your father is a famous writer." "You can design sets anywhere, or buy antiques." "But I need the German language !" "I need the motherland, don't you see?" " Who's there?" " Otto." " Who?" " Otto." " l must talk to you." " You want some coffee?" " No, thanks." " Tea?" "Act with us again. lt's the only reply we can give to these events." "An appearance by all of us, a common front." "So we don't lose our future." "You just want to divide the audience?" "We must work out our tactics." "Tactics will force us to our knees." "We must fight this crushing demagogy." "It's our job to tell the hesitators:" "Now is the time to resist dictatorship!" "Otto, in the first place, we'r e actors..." "No, not a protest on the street." "I'm talking about the stage." "Still, I think we should wait a few days." "We must do something immediately." "Tonight." "Otto, I'd rather stay with the reserves." "Thank God I've no performance today." "GERMAN RElCHS-MAlL" "Film contract, locations in Budapest  leading role." "Production Manager Altenburger." "She really is a beauty." "She's sitting by the side altar." "Cut!" "Very good!" "The second one." "Now the scene where they follow her to the Fishermen's Bastion." "What's going on?" "What's going on?" "are we done for today?" "Can we go?" " The Reichstag was burned down." " What?" "They say the communists set fire to it." "Your wife wants you to join her in Paris." "She didn't dare phone you." "Don't go back to Berlin. I'm moving to Vienna." "Many of your Berlin friends have vanished lately." "Otto Ulrichs is one." "We must be prepared for anything." "I fear we'll never be able to return." "The Nazis have blacklists." "wife and you are on them." "Please, never go back to Berlin." "Hendrik, promise me that." "Please !" "Cheers, and many thanks!" "Cheers!" "To the most beautiful actress in Europe !" "When are you going home?" "I'll stay a few more days in Budapest." "Then I'm going to see about a contract in Vienna." "I understand you, Hendrik." "I'll tell you now, I'm not going back to Germany, either." "I signed you for this part so you, too, could slip away, if you want to." "The film studio gave me your address in Budapest." "I hope my letter reaches you." "I'm in Berlin now." "I've landed a part in a comedy." "During the shoot I met the actress Lotte Lindenthal." "She's friendly with a National Socialist who's very powerful now." "She's wonderful." "She never flaunts what great influence she has." "I told her you were abroad and didn't dare return, for certain reasons." "What's the man afraid of?" "She said you were an eminent artist and saw Mephisto several times." ""We need such actors", she said, and she promised to speak to her friend." "This morning she said: "No matter what silly things Höfgen has done when it's an eminent actor, people are tolerant."" "Her friend has promised that nothing will happen to you if you return." "Hendrik, Berlin awaits you." "You have nothing to fear." "No one can replace you." "Those who rule our lives  know that the theater is a shelter for me and people like me  in which we all feel safe and have nothing to fear." "It would be that for you, too." "Theater is a mission." "In true friendship, yours, Angelika Siebert." "Name?" " Hendrik Höfgen." " Profession?" "Actor." "Where?" "At the State Theater in Berlin." " ls something wrong?" " No, no." "Thank you." "Thank you." "I don't know if you'll feel at home again here." "The spirit is different from that you were accustomed to." "Cultural Bolshevism is over." "There will no longer be a chance to appear in your friend's plays or those popular French farces." "We perform German art now." "Frankly, I saw no great reason to recall you from abroad." "But Lotte Lindenthal wants you as her partner in her comedy debut here." "I didn't want to displease her." "The role of elegant friend and seducer shouldn't cause you any difficulty." "I'm so cold." "I'll warm you up." "Your room isn't heated in this dr eadful weather?" "is this how you anticipated my visit?" "Very nice of you!" "There's a warm room over there." "Come." "No, I'm in a great hurry today." "It would warm us up." "No, there's no point in this cold flat." "My new maid doesn't know her duties yet." "You should have told her your visitor needed warmth." "But I've only just returned home." "You should have returned earlier." "I'm someone you must wait for, impatiently." "If I want to meet someone in passing, I have my husband." "And besides..." "Where did you get this new maid?" "She's far too pretty." "It's an honor to act with you." "It's so nice to hear a warm voice again." "I'm happy to hear you say that, I know You're no flatterer." "Me, a flatterer?" "I'm notorious for telling people the truth." "I like honest people." "If she turns, everything will be fine." "If she waves, I've scored a triumph." "After the Reichstag fire, I had to leave Hamburg." "Bonetti wears a uniform now." "He threw me out of the canteen." ""We've got you now, Böck!" he said." "They almost beat me up, my landlady threw me out." "I had to leave Hamburg." "Are you upset that I've come?" "When I heard you were in Berlin, I found new hope and I just came." "Are you angry with me?" "I'm not angry with you." "Live here till things settle down, but don't tell anyone." "Just simply disappear without a word." "If I were in your position, I might well commit suicide." "I'll buy you a radio, so you'll know what's happening outside." "I've got nobody else in the world but you." " ls Budapest beautiful?" " l don't know..." "Yes, quite nice." "I could have gone there." "Barbara wasn't with you." "They wouldn't have let you cross the border." "I'm a German citizen, too." "My father was pure German." "Why can't I go out?" "If you can't understand why, we'll both be in tr ouble." " You're horrible." " You're an idiot!" "Go to hell you... you actor!" "Dear Lotte, may I ask a great favor?" "I have to play Mephisto." "I'll see what I can do." "I look forward to seeing you again as Mephisto." "It's thanks to me you're playing Mephisto again." "Certain ministerial circles feared you might revive your old Faust spirit." "The spirit of cultural Bolshevism, as it was called." "Well, I succeeded in overcoming those fears." "Casar, thank you, thank you very much." "THANK You!" "Please give these flowers to Miss Lindenthal." " Good morning!" " Good morning." "Morning, Mr. Höfgen." "Mr. Miklas!" "Are you still around?" " Morning." " Fine." "I've only been here a short space, I come with a humility to this place to find a teacher of vocation who's held by all in veneration." "How pleasant is your courtesy!" "A man like many more you see." "Have you looked around?" "Take me as your student." "I come with courage and my youth." "I want to study with all my heart." "You've come to the right place." "I feel like going home l fear." "In that great hall I won't like it at all." "You see no grass, you see no tree." "And in the classes we are taught I lose my hearing, sight and thought." "It all depends on habit."