Taking Sides (film) Quotes
2001 films, Action films, Political drama films
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“ing deal.
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“STEVE: I'm gonna get that f**”
“STEVE[American Colonel]: I have a duty.”
“ing bandleader, Colonel. No deal. No f**”
“STEVE: Jeez, and I never heard of him....”
“STEVE (U.S. Army major): Like this bandleader.”
“DYMSHITZ: (flaring) Duty? I am sorry, duty? Duty f**”
“ON THE SCREEN: piles of cadavers being bulldozed...
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“DYMSHITZ [Russian Colonel]: Let Furtwängler go. Please.
[they're both very drunk]”
“WALLACE: Stay put, Steve. There is some other stuff that I'd like for you to see here. Background.”
“ON THE SCREEN: SHOTS of camp survivors. Then SHOTS of emaciated corpses being bulldozed into mass graves.”
“Wikipedia: Taking Sides (film)”
“ON THE SCREEN: a Berlin sequence. Bombs falling. Ruins, a city devastated, empty. Flags of the four allied nations. Posters of Truman, Stalin, Churchill.”
“WALLACE (U.S. Army four star general): He's as big as Toscanini, maybe even bigger. In this neck of the woods, he's probably Bob Hope and Betty Grable rolled into one.”
“FURTWÄNGLER I didn't directly oppose the Party because I told myself, that was not my job. If I had taken any active part in politics I could not have remained here...”
“ARCHIVE FILM: Sanitary conditions were so appalling that heavy equipment had to be brought in to speed the work of cleaning up [thousands of corpses]...
The moment this appears, Steve rises and goes quickly.”
“FURTWÄNGLER: I have always tried to analyse myself carefully and closely. In staying here, I believed I walked a tightrope between exile and the gallows. You seem to be blaming me for not having allowed myself to be hanged...”
“INT. MAJOR STEVE ARNOLD'S BEDROOM (I945) - NIGHT Steve having a nightmare, twisting, turning, moaning. He wakes with a cry. He is sweating. He turns on the light, looks at a clock, reaches for a cigarette, lights it. He smokes. He stares at the ceiling.
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“WALLACE: Well, they say here that when you went on a case, you stayed on it. (looks up at Steve.) Now we can't take every Nazi in this country to trial, although I would like to; it's an impossibility. So we're going for the big boys in industry, education, law, culture.”
“AMERICAN RADIO VOICE: Remember, men, no fraternisation. In a German town, if you bow to a pretty girl or pat a blond child, you bow to all that Hitler stood for. You bow to his reign of blood. You caress the ideology that meant death and destruction. You never know who was a member of the Nazi Party...
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