Intermezzo (1939)

Ingrid Bergman: Anita Hoffman

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Quotes 

• Anita Hoffman : I have been an intermezzo in his life.

• Ann Marie Brandt : Isn't he stupid?

  Anita Hoffman : But he's a boy.

  Ann Marie Brandt : What's that to be so stuck up about?

• Anita Hoffman : It's late for me.

  Holger Brandt : It's never too late for a glass of wine.

• Holger Brandt : Bravo.

  Anita Hoffman : Thank you.

• Holger Brandt : There comes a night each year when one senses that Winter is suddenly over.

  Anita Hoffman : Yes, that Spring has come. Oh, how I look forward to it through the dreary months.

  Holger Brandt : Look, there goes the Winter now: broken, rushing to the sea. Don't you feel when Spring comes that the world is yours just for the asking? That there's nothing that you couldn't be?

  Anita Hoffman : Tonight, I would dare anything. Or, perhaps, it's only the champagne.

• Holger Brandt : Do you know what you remind me of?

  Anita Hoffman : No. Tell me.

  Holger Brandt : A Viennese waltz. Smiling but melancholy. A melody of the days when Vienna was a happy city.

• Anita Hoffman : I'm ashamed. And I hate being ashamed.

• Anita Hoffman : Holger, I'm going. I'm going now. Quickly, as if it didn't matter. Don't touch me - or say anything. Don't turn around.

  [she leaves, Holger turns around] 

• Anita Hoffman : What am I? Your shadow. I don't exist without you.

  Holger Brandt : You're not a shadow. How can you talk such nonsense?

  Anita Hoffman : But it's enough. Let me be with you like this - always.

  Holger Brandt : And will that be enough? Always?

• Anita Hoffman : It has been the greatest happiness I've ever known - and the greatest I'll ever know. Such happiness couldn't come more than once in one's life. I know it couldn't. Could it?