Dollar (1938)

Georg Rydeberg: Kurt Balzar

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• Julia Balzar : Americans are right to say we should face life with a smile. Just wait until Sissi gets well, then we'll have a merry dance. Who cares? We'll have great fun.

  Kurt Balzar : You only think you're having fun. I'm leaving.

  Julia Balzar : "You only think you're having fun." Even a broken clock is right once a day. And this time he's right, my broken clock. You only think you're having fun, you think you're in love, you think you're being loved. It's like the candles at a party. You blindly stare into the flames, forgetting they'll soon burn out. One belief after another burns out. Until all that remains is the belief in death.

  Katja von Battwyhl : Well, which belief has just burned out?

  Julia Balzar : I don't know. Perhaps my belief in myself.

• Kurt Balzar : I'm not fond of the other men my wife loves. If possible, I'd rather keep her to myself.

  Julia Balzar : No, simply impossible. All men worship my free spirt.

  Kurt Balzar : It's easy to worship a woman when she's not your wife. I worshipped you once as well.

• Julia Balzar : Don't you find me charming and sweet?

  Kurt Balzar : No.

  Julia Balzar : Then you think I'm kind and pleasant?

  Kurt Balzar : No.

  Julia Balzar : Come sit down. Come on and sit. Kurt, repeat after me: I think you're charming, sweet, kind, and pleasant.

  Kurt Balzar : No.

  Julia Balzar : Poor kid. All grown up and you still haven't learned to lie.

  Kurt Balzar : Would such a lie make you feel any better?

  Julia Balzar : Sometimes you feel so miserable that you'd gladly beg for such small lies, even knowing they're just lies. Just like children who collect fallen leaves, pretending they're made of gold. But they know full well that they're only withered leaves.

• Ludvig von Battwyhl : Our relationships are terribly innocent.

  Julia Balzar : That's right, miss. We pretend to be indecent. And we don't want interference.

  Mary Jonston : My darling, it's my duty to interfere. You are morally decadent. Yes, I saw Julia take Louis in her arms, Kurt embrace Katja, and the Count couldn't take his eyes off of Sissi.

  Julia Balzar : Yes, calm down. She's absolutely right. Right here. Just a moment ago, remember? I had my arm around Louis and scowled when I saw Kurt with his arm around Katja and she scowled when she saw Ludvig by poor Sussi's feet. Dear friends, I just want to show we know our marriages are rotten. We deceive each other again and again and again!

  Kurt Balzar : Please restrain yourself.

  Julia Balzar : I'm an educated European woman. I don't speak the truth without cause. But if this American doubts my ability, she'll get more truth than she can handle!

• Julia Balzar : I feel like Sussi's accident was a sign from God. A warning to me and the rest of us.

  Kurt Balzar : Julia, it was a pure accident.

  Julia Balzar : Pure accidents don't exist. Everything happens for a reason.