Four Minutes (2006)

Monica Bleibtreu: Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger

Quotes 

• Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : You remind me of someone, warden.

  Direktor Meyerbeer : Meyerbeer...

  Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : My first warden also refused to be called warden.

  Direktor Meyerbeer : Head of penitentiary?

  Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : SS-Sturmbannführer.

• Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : Today is my last day. I just want to get my piano.

  Kowalski : Tell me, Mrs. Krüger... What do those guys have that others don't?

  Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : One's a murderer and the other raped his niece.

  Kowalski : I'll miss you, Mrs. Krüger.

• Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : Strange how hard it is for both of us.

  Jenny von Loeben : What?

  Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : ...to be friendly.

• Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : The words 'sorry', 'please' and 'thank you' are missing in your letter.

  Jenny von Loeben : Sorry. Please. Thank you.

• Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : You think today was an easy day for me? Why do you think I've stayed here for 60 years?

  Jenny von Loeben : Because of a dead body? Great! A lesbian who likes corpses. You're a perverted freak, madam.

• [first lines] 

  Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : I'm very sorry.

  Direktor Meyerbeer : About what?

  Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : Them dying.

  Direktor Meyerbeer : I'm sorry about how they died.

• Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : Well, Clara, can you do a nice curtsy?

• Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : Don't you ever... play that negro music again!

• Jenny von Loeben : Nice view eh?

  Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : Today you did something extraordinary... and then you ruin it all. What is it with you?

  Jenny von Loeben : I knew the window wouldn't break.

  Jenny von Loeben : I ran into before, when my baby was born. Two or three stories up, where the view is even nicer. I was in labor for sixteen hours. When I told the doctor that I... that I couldn't take it anymore he said that I was just a con trying to stay out of prison. They should have done a Cesarian. But they didn't. They just let me tear. I blacked out. When I woke up, the nurse said to me... "Your baby... you baby is gone. It's just gone." Circulatory collapse. His name was Oskar.

  Jenny von Loeben : [sobbing]  Shit...

  Jenny von Loeben : Three hours later they took me back to jail.

  Jenny von Loeben : Nice name, Oskar.

• Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : So, Clara, can you do a curtsy now?

• Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : And you quit playing that negro music!

• Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : Beautiful hands.

  Jenny von Loeben : Thank you.

• [last lines] 

  Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : Give her those few minutes. Please. Please.

  Direktor Meyerbeer : What do you mean by a few minutes?

  Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger : Four.