Holocaust (1978)

Joseph Bottoms: Rudi Weiss

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• Rudi Weiss : Do you remember the first time we made love in Prague?

  Helena Slomova : Don't embarrass me.

  Rudi Weiss : It was beautiful. The best thing I ever knew in my life.

  Helena Slomova : For me too.

  Rudi Weiss : Now each time we're together. The wonder of it. Two people knowing each other so closely. Not just the bodies, the arms, the lips. It's as if God or nature or someone decided it had to be.

  Helena Slomova : Rudi, there's a poet in you.

• Helena Slomova : [translates for Soviet captain]  Rudi, he's asking if you are a good Communist.

  Rudi Weiss : Oh yes! Sure! If it'll save my neck

• Berald : How much did you hear?

  Rudi Weiss : Sounds like you're going to break out.

  Berald : What's your name?

  Rudi Weiss : Rudi Weiss.

  Berald : German?

  Rudi Weiss : Jew.

  Berald : We are Red Army, 51st Division. Weiss, if you are spy, we have to kill you.

  Rudi Weiss : I'm not a spy. If there's going to be a breakout, I want a gun. I was a partisan for *two* years.

  Berald : Whose unit?

  Rudi Weiss : Uncle Sasha, the doctor from Koretz.

  Berald : What actions were you involved in?

  Rudi Weiss : Ambushed the Ukrainian SS on the Zhytomyr Road. We attacked the SS headquarters in Krimitch. We were caught trying to shoot up a convoy. My wife... was killed. What is this place?

  Berald : Sobibor, Eastern Poland. They gas 2,000 Jews a day, burn the bodies. There is a field of ashes outside. The SS sleep on pillows stuffed with Jewish hair.