The Good German (2006)

Cate Blanchett: Lena Brandt

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• Lena Brandt : An affair has more rules than a marriage.

• Lena Brandt : You can never really get out of Berlin.

• Lena Brandt : A Factory inside a Mountain. Tunnels where the American bombs couldn't reach. What were once sulfur mines. Someone had to take them out. Slave labor. Prisoners, detainees. That was how they built the rockets. Emil was asked to calculate how much to feed them...... to keep them alive just three months until the tunnels were completed. It's here, in his notebooks. Eight hundred calories a day. After that, let them die and bring in new workers. The correct answer, it turned out. It was more efficient. They called it Dora. Camp Dora. Thirty thousand died in that camp. Bettmann ran it.Every detail.He hanged people from a crane right outside his office window.

• Lena Brandt : They told me he was dead. One more dead or not dead. Who would know?

• Lena Brandt : I forget sometimes what a boy you are. Such a boy. A sweet little boy.

  Patrick Tully : No, cut it out.

  Lena Brandt : Does that bother you? Why should it? My husband was a boy too. A little boy.

• Lena Brandt : The war, it's convenient. We can all blame everything on the war.

• Lena Brandt : I think if you hadn't left, Jacob, nothing would be any different. Nothing. lf. lf you want to stay, it's 500 marks. Make up your mind. I'm going to sleep.

• Lena Brandt : The Americans were looking for Emil, so he offered him to the Russians. One of his schemes. Stupid. A way to get money to get me out of Germany. Sell them a dead man. Now he's dead too. Maybe you next, if you don't watch yourself.

• Lena Brandt : The only way out of Berlin for me was to do one thing good. One thing noble. Otherwise, Berlin would just follow me.

• [last lines] 

  Lena Brandt : Now you know. The last piece in your puzzle.

• Lena Brandt : He's a good German. He wants to tell the truth.

• Lena Brandt : You got a john for me? A rich one?

  Danny : I've got a bloke in the club who'll give you a thousand marks. Thinking about it. When I met you, you'd have a go for a can of tuna.

• Lena Brandt : You want it straight or something special?

  Jake Geismer : What's special?

  Lena Brandt : Whatever you want.

• Lena Brandt : All these men. They want you to cry in their arms. I had no more tears. I knew what I had become.

• Lena Brandt : I survived. It was all to survive. Everything.

• Lena Brandt : I'm a Nazi myself, did you know that? It's true.

  Jake Geismer : You're not a Nazi.

  Lena Brandt : No, not a Nazi. None of us. Just something to join, like a sport club. How could you fuck someone for all those years and not know them?

  Jake Geismer : Stop it.

  Lena Brandt : Did you ever fuck a Nazi?

  Jake Geismer : Cut it out.

  Lena Brandt : How about a Jew?

  Jake Geismer : Why won't you let me help you?

  Lena Brandt : A Nazi and a Jew both, better yet.

  Jake Geismer : You did nothing wrong!

  Lena Brandt : I survived.

• Lena Brandt : As the wife of an SS man, I was exempt. ''A Jewess is not a Jew,'' that's the way they used to put it. It's not something I have ever told anyone. And at the end - no one was exempt.