Babette's Feast (1987)

Ghita Nørby: Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [in Danish, using English subtitles] 

  Narrator : In this remote spot there once lived two sisters who were both past the first flush of youth. They had been christened Martina and Philippa after Martin Luther and his friend Philipp Melanchton. They spent all their time and almost all their small income on good works.

• Narrator : As young girls, the beauty of Martine and Filippa had been extraordinary, like that of flowering fruit trees. They were never seen at balls or parties, and the young men went to church in hope of seeing them.

• Narrator : In the pastor's flock, earthly love and marriage were considered of scant worth and merely empty illusion.

• Narrator : At this very moment, he had a mighty vision of a higher and purer life, without creditors' letters or parental lectures... and with a gentle angel at his side.