I Am Dina (2002)
Maria Bonnevie: Dina
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Quotes
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Dina : Look at me. Look at me. Let all the cares and sorrows of this world fall away from you...
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Dina : [last words in the international version] Leo. You came back.
Leo Zhukovsky : Try to rest...
Dina : Are you going to stay?
Leo Zhukovsky : I'm always going to be leaving you, Dina, but I will always come back.
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Lorch : Your mother is in heaven. She's... She's happy, because now... now she's free... free of all the sorrows and cares of this world. And that just makes her happy.
Dina : Does it?
Lorch : Yes
Dina : So it was a good thing that happened to my mama?
Lorch : Well...
Dina : [Dina points the sky] Up there, there isn't any sadness and no naughty girls. Nobody else knew how to send mama up there but I did. I set mama free.
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Dina's Father : Jacob owns the biggest merchandised establishment in the whole county. He is a wealthy man.
Dina : He can wipe his ass with his money.
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Dina : Kindness isn't exactly what I'm best known for.
Leo Zhukovsky : Then I'm in luck this evening.
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Leo Zhukovsky : You seem to take all this talk of suffering and death very well...
Dina : I'm not easily scared.
Leo Zhukovsky : Not even by death?
Dina : Not even by that.
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[last words]
Dina : I am Dina. Watching her beloved drifting away. Am I condemned to this forever? I am the mothers' eye, which sees the child, which sees myself. I am Dina, who sees.
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Dina : I know of no fine words to do with love. They wither like flowers when I try to pick them.
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Dina : We played a game together. Mama and I. On the cliff. It was a simple game - I spun around and would count my steps moving in a random direction. If I went over the cliff, she would have to come and catch me. But she never did. I couldn't count to more than twenty.
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Jacob : [Dina got scared of her husbands' behaviour and has climbed up a high ladder during her wedding. Wedding guests watch as her husband and her father are trying to get her down] Come down Dina! Please, on my knees! Come down, I beg you!
Dina's Father : Get down here right now! What are you? Crazy? Do you want to ruin your whole wedding?
Dina : You beast!
Jacob : Yes I know, I know...
Dina : You are like a stallion, you!
Jacob : No! It won't happen again!
Dina : Oh, no?
Jacob : Come down now, I promise.
Dina : And you expect me to believe that?
Jacob : I swear to God.
Dina : Well, that demands witnesses.
Jacob : [Jacob calls out to the whole crowd] I, Jacob Groenelv, swear by almighty God, that I will never again carry on like a stallion!
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Dina : Jacob was no longer strong. He was frightened and would not play. He was starting to see who I was.
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Dina's Father : He's to be called Jacob of course?
Dina : No, he's not. He's to be called Benjamin.
Dina's Father : Benjamin? Nobody in our family has ever been called "Benjamin".
Dina : You can brawl all you like, it will be as I say.
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Dina : When she feels bad, she screams. Do you still hear her?
Dina's Father : Oh, yes... I hear her... I hear her every single day.
Dina : Won't you ever stop hating me?
Dina's Father : Dina, please...
Dina : Tell me the truth, Father! Tell me what you feel.
Dina's Father : What I feel? I feel... nothing.
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Dina : I'm tired of all your accusations. Niels probably had a reason to hang himself. It was his decision.
Dina's Father : It's strange, Dina, how people always die around you.
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Benjamin : You've got to stay here!
Dina : No.
Benjamin : If you go, I won't be here when you get back!
Dina : And where will you be?
Benjamin : I might be dead!
Dina : Then you have had a short life.
Benjamin : I don't care!
Dina : Benjamin, everyone cares about their own life.
Benjamin : Well, I don't! I will come back as a ghost!
Dina : I should hope so. Then I won't have lost you completely.
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Dina : I don't know anything about you! Who are you?
Leo Zhukovsky : I'm no-one, Dina. I'm no-one. I am my mission.
Dina : I can't marry a man who does not exist.
Leo Zhukovsky : Oh, are we to be married?
Dina : Yes. Leo.
Leo Zhukovsky : I doubt that the prison chaplain can perform any other ceremonies other than the last rites.
Dina : It must not happen.
Leo Zhukovsky : Don't tell me you're beginning to fear death.
Dina : I want to spend my life with you.
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Dina : They all die... And the ones that don't die... I kill.