Angela Winkler: Katharina Blum
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Quotes
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Prosecutor Hach : I've seen you somewhere before.
Katharina Blum : Yes. I work for the Blornas.
Prosecutor Hach : Please get dressed. It looks bad when you're parading half naked in front of your employees.
Katharina Blum : I'm not parading. I'm at home.
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Kommissar Beizmenne : "I am a bad, conscienceless, godless man, but gold is revered, and so is its owner. The divine strength of gold lies in its being the estranged, alienated and self-alienating essence of Man. It is the alienated property of Men." Sit down here. Did Goetten write that?
Katharina Blum : No, it has nothing to do with Ludwig.
Prosecutor Hach : Gold is revered, and so is its owner! Written by a bank robber, it makes sense.
Katharina Blum : It's by Karl Marx!
Moeding : Probably the early writings.
Kommissar Beizmenne : So you've read Marx?
Katharina Blum : No.
Kommissar Beizmenne : Is that your handwriting?
Katharina Blum : Father Urbanus, a Dominican, wrote it down for me. You can check. Hohenblumenburg Convent.
Prosecutor Hach : You mean you know Marx through the Dominicans? You chose the wrong order.
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Kommissar Beizmenne : Did he fuck you?
Katharina Blum : I wouldn't use that word.
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Kommissar Beizmenne : Goetten's advances didn't bother you?
Katharina Blum : Ludwig didn't make advances. He was tender.
Kommissar Beizmenne : Same thing.
Katharina Blum : It is not! Advances are a one-sided action, and tenderness is quite different. It comes from both parties.
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Ludwig Götten : Your name is Katharina?
Katharina Blum : And yours?
Ludwig Götten : Ludwig.
Katharina Blum : I haven't called a man by his first name in ages.
Ludwig Götten : How long?
Katharina Blum : Four years. No, five.
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Katharina Blum : These people are murderers. All of them. It's their very business to rob innocent people of their honor, often too take their lives. Otherwise nobody would buy their papers.
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Kommissar Beizmenne : It should come to 104,000. But in fact it shows 162,000.
Moeding : Now and then she visits her mother in Gemmelsbroich.
Kommissar Beizmenne : 50,000 still remain unaccounted for. We have the gas bills. Where did you drive to so often? What were you spying on? Whom did you meet and where?
Katharina Blum : That's right. I just added it up in my mind. I never gave a thought about those expenses. After work, I often go for a drive. Mostly when it rains and when I'm alone. Sometimes I'm home at 5:00 with nothing to do. I know so many women who get drunk alone in front of their TV. That scares me.
