Did I ever tell you of my escape from the Soviets? You've told me about it at least eleven...
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Irene:
Did I ever tell you of my escape from the Soviets?
Achille Weber:
You've told me about it at least eleven times, and every time it was different.
Irene:
Well, I made several escapes. I am always making escapes, Achille. When I worry about you and your career, I have to run away from the terror of my own thoughts. So I amuse myself by studying the faces of the people I see. Just ordinary, casual, dull people. That little English couple for instance - I was watching them during dinner, sitting there close together, holding hands. And I saw him in his nice, smart British uniform shooting a little pistol at a huge tank. And the tank rolls over him. And his fine, strong body that was so full of the capacity for ecstasy... is a mass of mashed flesh and bones. A smear of purple blood, like a stepped-on snail. But before the moment of death, he consoles himself by thinking, "thank God she is safe. She is bearing the child I gave her. And he will live to see a better world." But I know where she is. She is under a house that has been racked by an air raid. She is as dead as he is. But he, he died in action against the enemy gloriously. But she died in a cellar, not so very gloriously. There will be many who will die this way in this war, won't there Achille?
[he does not respond]
Irene:
You don't say anything! Probably you are bored. But I like to think about these things, Achille. And it makes me so proud to think that I am so close to you, who makes all this possible.
Achille Weber:
That's all very interesting, my dear. But before you waste too much sympathy on these little people like your English friends, just ask yourself this: why shouldn't they die? And who are the greater criminals - those who sell the instruments of death or those who buy them and use them? It is they who make war seem noble and heroic, and what does it all amount to? Mistrust of the motives of everyone else! A dog-in-the-manger defence of all they've got, greed for the other fellow's possessions! Oh, I assure you, Irene, for such little people, the deadliest weapons are the most merciful.
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Excuse me, madame, but it seems to me
the last time you told me about your escape
it was different.
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Well, I made several escapes.
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But I have talked too much about myself.
What about you, my friend ?
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I'm not very interesting.
I'm just what I seem to be.
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Really ?
Why do you waste yourself in degraded work ?
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You think I'm fitted for something
that requires more mentality ?
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Of course.
How do you know so much about me ?
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For one thing, I saw your performance tonight.
You thought it was rotten ?
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I thought it was unworthy.
Unfortunately it was interrupted.
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I saw enough.
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You are a very bad dancer.
In Romania they thought I was pretty good.
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Do you know that you can be extremely rude ?
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Me ? How ?
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Why do you stare at me so ?
Was I staring ?
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Steadily. Ever since I arrived here this morning.
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Why do you do it ?
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Well, I thought I detected a funny kind of resemblance
to somebody I used to know.
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You should know better than to tell any woman
that she resembles someone else.
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We none of us like to think that our appearence is commonplace.
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The one you looked like wasn't commonplace.
Oh !
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She was someone dear and dear to you ?
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She occupies a unique shrine in the temple of my memory.
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Really ?
That is a glowing tribute.
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The temple of your memory must be so crowded.
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Are you sure you've never been in Omaha, Madame ?
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Omaha.
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Oh, yes !
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That is where you said you did...
What was it ?
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Mind reading.
Of course.
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No, I'm afraid I do not know your Omaha.
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But I have seen enough of your countrymen
to know that you are typical.
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I'm not typical of anything.
Oh, yes you are.
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You are an ingenious, sentimental idealist.
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You believe in the goodness of human nature, don't you ?
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You can call that sentimental, Mrs. Weber, but it's true.
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Forgive me, but that is not my name.
Oh, I thought you...
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I know what you thought.
Mr. Weber and I are associated
in a sort of business way.
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I see. Business is pretty good, isn't it ?
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But it is getting late,
and I am keeping you from your duties.
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I haven't got any duties.
Hello, Harry. How are we doing ?
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Shouldn't you be worried about your young ladies ?
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I thought you were supposed to be the chaperone.
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I leave the girls to their own resources.
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Of which they have plenty.
Ah-ha.
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There you are, staring at me again.
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I was just thinking.
You said you were interested in aviation.
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So was the girl I knew in Omaha.
She swung from the tail of a tin aeroplane by her teeth.
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What an extraordinary way to make a living.
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Excuse me, were you always a blonde ?
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Why, yes. As far back as I can remember.
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But that other one, the one I remind you of,
was she blond ?
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She had red hair.
But I suspected even that.
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Tell me, what was she like ?
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She said she was a graduate of the University of Vienna.
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And she was the fanciest liar I ever knew.
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She sounds fascinating.
She was a pest.
One night she broke up the mindreading act.
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And then she had the nerve
to ask me to teach her the code.
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I had a terrible time getting rid of her.
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She even forced her way into my room at the hotel.
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Oh, dear !
I hope you didn't teach her the code.
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But I really must go now.
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Do you know any Russian songs ?
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Oh, yes. When I was a little girl, my father
used to engage Chaliapin to come often to our house.
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He taught me many songs.
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Hm, Chaliapin. Your father spared no expense.
That was in old Russia.
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Do you know this one ?
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Oh ! Kaak Strana.
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How Strange.
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How strange...
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What did you say your name was ?
Irena.
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How do you spell it ?
I-R-E-N-E.
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That's it. Irene !
But why ?
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I knew it. You're the one.
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What one ?
That redheaded liar, Irene. I knew I couldn't be mistaken.
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Ah, there are so many by that name.
Not like you, babe.
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Everything fits, the name, the face,
the voice, Chaliapin, old Russia...
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Certainly it's you.
And there's no use shaking your head...
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No matter how much you lie you can't wipe out
the memory of the Royal Grand Hotel in Omaha.
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The what Hotel ?
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Go ahead and laugh,
that blond hair had me fooled for a minute...
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... but it's just as phony as that parachute jump into the jungle.
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Oh, you amuse me.
It's a pleasure to be entertaining,
but you can't get away with it.
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You amuse me very much indeed.
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Here we are, on a mountain peak in bedlam.
Tonight war is breaking over the world...
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And all you worry about is whether
I am a girl you once met casually in Omahahaha.
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Hahaha, did I say it was casual ?
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Oh, it is amusing. Sure it is, it's absolutely sizefitting.
but don't think for one minute there's any more doubt in my mind.
I've got you tagged.
Clip duration: 383 seconds
Views: 433
Timestamp in movie: 01h 16m 38s
Uploaded: 13 October, 2021
Genres: comedy, drama, musical
Summary: A group of disparate travelers are caught and thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the beginning of World War II.
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