The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

Jack Scanlon: Shmuel

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Quotes 

• Shmuel : I wish you'd remembered the chocolate.

  Bruno : Yes, I'm sorry. I know! Perhaps you can come and have supper with us sometime.

  Shmuel : I can't, can I? Because of this.

  [points the electric fence] 

  Bruno : But that's to stop the animals getting out, isn't it?

  Shmuel : Animals? No, it's to stop people getting out.

  Bruno : Are you not allowed out? Why? What have you done?

  Shmuel : I'm a Jew.

• Bruno : I'm Bruno.

  Shmuel : Shmuel.

  Bruno : Sorry?

  Shmuel : I'm Shmuel.

  Bruno : That's your name? I've never heard of anyone called that before.

  Shmuel : I've never heard of anyone called Bruno.

  Bruno : Shmuel? No one's called Shmuel.

• Bruno : Shmuel. Can we go to the café or something?

  Shmuel : Café?

  Bruno : [pause]  Maybe I should go home.

  Shmuel : What about Papa?

  Bruno : [after looking around]  Yeah.

  Shmuel : We'll check our hut first.

• Bruno : Why do you wear pajamas all day?

  Shmuel : The soldiers. They took all our clothes away.

  Bruno : My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away.

• Lieutenant Kotler : How dare you talk to people in the house? How dare you! Are you eating? Have you been stealing food?

  [shouts] 

  Lieutenant Kotler : Answer me!

  Shmuel : No, sir. He gave it to me. He's my friend.

  Lieutenant Kotler : What?

  [to Bruno] 

  Lieutenant Kotler : Little man, do you know this Jew?

  [shouts] 

  Lieutenant Kotler : Do you know this Jew?

  Bruno : No, I just walked in, and he was helping himself. I've never seen him before in my life.

  Lieutenant Kotler : You, finish cleaning the glasses. When I come back, we'll have a little chat about what happens to rats who steal.

• Bruno : Do you not like playing?

  [Shmuel nods] 

  Bruno : Just not ball games?

  Shmuel : Not here.

• Shmuel : Would you dare do it?