Mafia (1968)

Claudia Cardinale: Rosa Nicolosi

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• Capt. Bellodi : Has someone threatened you?

  Rosa Nicolosi : My husband has a clean record.

  Capt. Bellodi : I know. I know, but it's difficult to look for a needle in a haystack - and your husband, in Sicily, is like a needle.

• Police Sergeant : Why come and look for chicory and cabbages right here?

  Rosa Nicolosi : And why not? Am I doing something wrong? The chicory doesn't belong to anyone. It's just chicory.

  Police Sergeant : Everything belongs to someone, even the chicory.

• Capt. Bellodi : Maybe at this moment your husband needs help - a lot of help. And what's his wife doing? She's silent. Doesn't want to help. Just what kind of wife is she?

  Rosa Nicolosi : I'd give my blood for him.

• Capt. Bellodi : Why did you go see Don Mariano?

  Rosa Nicolosi : To see whether I could sell him something - some eggs.

• Rosa Nicolosi : How could you? You do what you want, eh?

• Pizzuco : You have a beautiful daughter! She'll be as pretty as you when she's older. I remember you were just like that. I watched you grow up.

  Rosa Nicolosi : So, what did you want to tell me?

  Pizzuco : I'll have a glass of wine, if that's okay. I came to tell you that you're beautiful. Doesn't that please you?

• Pizzuco : You've ruined my life Rosa. All those times that you passed in front of my house or when I'd meet you and you'd look at me with those eyes. Y'know Rosa?

  Rosa Nicolosi : Don't be a fool. I've never once thought about you.

  Pizzuco : That's what you say.

  Rosa Nicolosi : Now that you've had your drink you can go. Your hand.

  Pizzuco : What a light dress you've got on

  Rosa Nicolosi : Your hand! What do you think? You think you can do that if I don't want it? Ah, take a walk! You'll just have to do with your whore of a wife! Don't touch me with those hands! They make me sick! Think you can molest a woman? Get out!

• Capt. Bellodi : Let's suppose that I'm mistaken and that he returns home and when he returns what does he find? A person that decent women don't stop to say hello to, someone who men stop on the street as if they could take her to bed whenever they wanted?

  Rosa Nicolosi : Well, it's better that he doesn't return then.

  Capt. Bellodi : Rosa, let these people hang!

  Rosa Nicolosi : Where do you think I live, Captain? I live among these people and when I walk past it's as if they're undressing me with they're eyes. I feel naked!

• Rosa Nicolosi : I've only ever been with my husband! No one else has ever seen me naked!

• Don Mariano Arena : What am I? Your pimp?

  Rosa Nicolosi : No! No, you are not my pimp. I don't have a pimp. I have nothing to be ashamed of!

• Rosa Nicolosi : It's up to the man to say what to do. The woman must always keep her mouth shut!

• Rosa Nicolosi : I did what I could.

  Capt. Bellodi : No! Like the others, you did what I told you to do! You did nothing of your own will. Nothing!

• Rosa Nicolosi : I'll ask my husband how I need to act when he returns.

• Rosa Nicolosi : Where am I going? It's just that I'm ashamed of this dress and these bare arms. I'm in. mourning aren't I? So I should dress in mourning.