Madam Kitty (1976)

Helmut Berger: Helmut Wallenberg

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Quotes 

• Helmut Wallenberg : What frightens you, what you see or what you don't?

• Helmut Wallenberg : You must be able to compromise all the way. You have to humble yourself, in order to be reborn.

• Helmut Wallenberg : To trust is fine; to not trust is better.

• Helmut Wallenberg : All of them have just one goal: power! There are no ideals, no belief system! You are the one who has illusions, Margherita. You, and millions of Germans like you who believed in us. It was a way to put all of you at our feet.

• Helmut Wallenberg : You see? You're nothing. A dog! Trained to obey my commands.

• Helmut Wallenberg : [strong ice-cold German accent]  I want you to be in my private dreams.

  Margherita : You need another ghost, like your wife?

  Helmut Wallenberg : It's my wish. But your duty.

  [grabs her, grunts] 

  Margherita : You want me to lose my body? My very being?

  Helmut Wallenberg : [with contempt]  Would you rather stay as you are now? With your pitiful love affair? My aims are higher.

  [haughtily:] 

  Helmut Wallenberg : That's why I am a National Socialist. I have a goal. A hope. And with you, it will be complete,

  [gesturing around him at all the trappings of his success] 

  Helmut Wallenberg : What does your pilot's ridiculous love-?

  Margherita : It's not love.

  Helmut Wallenberg : Here. I have a letter from him.

  [offers it, and she comes forward, but then he pulls it away] 

  Helmut Wallenberg : I could destroy him.

  [she grabs the letter] 

• Helmut Wallenberg : You're my creation. I invented you. You're my accomplice.

  Margherita : Do anything you want, anything! God knows when I'll see you again.

  Helmut Wallenberg : [looks up]  Very soon.

  Margherita : Wait! I want to make it last as long as possible!

  [sits up as she remembers:] 

  Margherita : Your wife!

  Helmut Wallenberg : I've sent her away. Even the servant has the day off.

  Margherita : She's still your wife.

  Helmut Wallenberg : You might be powerful enough to get rid of her.

  Margherita : Kiss me. Please kiss me.

  [gasps] 

  Margherita : This house is no place for illusions.

  Helmut Wallenberg : [dangered, gets up]  I'm not illusions!

  [storms off into next room, goes on rampage, upsetting chandelier] 

  Helmut Wallenberg : Look! My wife's grandfather was a Jew!

  Margherita : [follows him]  If they find out, that could be dangerous, even for you.

  Helmut Wallenberg : Not when I have the power I deserve. The power of Himmler!

  Margherita : [kneeling in front of him]  You're mad...

  Helmut Wallenberg : I have in my hands the bedroom secrets of everybody in Germany. Ribbentrop, Goebbels, Keitel, Jodl, even Himmler himself. I know the details of every single one of them. Their cocaine intake... their impotence, their perversions, their thieving, their betraying. Their rivalries... Defeatist cowards!

  Margherita : What do your superiors think about it?

  Helmut Wallenberg : They won't have time to think. The original idea wasn't mine... I admit. But I know how I can get rid of them all. At my convenience.

  Margherita : [scoffs]  You have illusions about your power.

  Helmut Wallenberg : No, no, no.

  [yanks her up] 

  Helmut Wallenberg : Every word is true.

  [takes her by the shoulders, shakes her] 

  Helmut Wallenberg : It's true!

  [shakes her violently] 

  Helmut Wallenberg : Get that through your head! I don't give a damn about National Socialism! Just as none of our leaders give a damn! It's a means to an end! Power! They have no ideas, no faith! You are the one with illusions, Margherita... you! And the millions of other Germans who believed in us. It's a way to get you all on our side.