Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)

Brenda Blethyn: Auguste Rottgen-van Pels

Quotes 

• Hermann van Pels : I got a joke for you.

  Auguste Van Pels : Heard it.

• Auguste Rottgen-van Pels : That was our last hundred guilders. What are we to do for money now?

• Auguste Rottgen-van Pels : Oh please, Kerli, just one more dance!

  Hermann van Pels : Oh sit down please Putti, before you make a fool of yourself!

  Auguste Rottgen-van Pels : Surely you wouldn't refuse a lady's invitation Mr Frank?

  Otto Frank : Well, Mrs. van Pels, it seems you have a rival at the moment.

  Otto Frank : Mademoislle?

  Anne Frank : Charmed.

• Hermann van Pels : Come in. Sit down.

  Auguste Van Pels : What's happening?

  Edith Frank : They've come for Margot. We always thought they'd come for Otto or me, but never the children.

  Hermann van Pels : Where's Otto?

  Edith Frank : Visiting some friends at the Truat Hospital.

  Hermann van Pels : We planned for the 16th, but that changes everything. Otto will know what to do.

• Auguste Van Pels : Oh, to find you here after all these weeks - months. Your mother was beside herself with grief when she heard about the transport.

  Margot Frank : She didn't come with you?

  Anne Frank : Selected.

  Auguste Van Pels : Every day there were trains. Because of the Russians is what I've heard. Only sixty miles away. They're emptying all the Polish camps.

  Anne Frank : We don't believe in rumors anymore.

• Auguste Rottgen-van Pels : Oh these blackout drapes make everything so stuffy, I feel as if I'm suffocating!

  Hermann van Pels : It's all in your head!

  Auguste Rottgen-van Pels : [to Mr. van Pels]  You know that isn't true!

  [to Mr. Frank] 

  Auguste Rottgen-van Pels : I'm a very delacite creature Mr. Frank, very delacite.

  [Mr. Frank fixes his tie uncomfortably] 

• Auguste Van Pels : Kerli, all this talk of an invasion is nonsense! Why haven't they? What's stopping them?

  Hermann van Pels : Why don't you stay out of it? I'll do the thinking if you please.

  Auguste Van Pels : Mr. Frank listens to *his* wife.

  [to Miep and Jan] 

  Auguste Van Pels : You see what he's like? Knows all the answers.

  Hermann van Pels : Beware of marriage, Mr. Gies: in my experience, its merits are greatly overrated.

  Auguste Van Pels : Hear, hear.

• Auguste Van Pels : Where's my pillow? What have you done with it this time?

  Hermann van Pels : I ate it. How am I supposed to know where it is?

  Auguste Van Pels : You keep losing everything!

  Hermann van Pels : Here!

  [Throws pillow at Mrs. van Pels] 

• Winston Churchill : [Talking on the radio]  But in the end, all the oppositions fell together, and all our foes submitted...

  Auguste Van Pels : I can't stand to hear that man talk! Half the time I don't even know what he's saying. 'This is not the end; it is possibly the beginning of the end, and it is certainly the end of the beginning' - do *you* know what that means, Mr. Frank?

  Hermann van Pels : [Annoyed]  Putti!

  Auguste Van Pels : If you ask me, the British should spend more time bombing Germany and less time drinking tea!

  Hermann van Pels : Oh, shut up already!