“The Boys from Brazil” quotes
(1978)
Title The Boys from Brazil
Year 1978
Director Franklin J. Schaffner
Genre Drama, Thriller
Year 1978
Director Franklin J. Schaffner
Genre Drama, Thriller
Plot – The world has forgotten the Nazi crimes, but Jew Ezra Liebermann continues, together with his wife Esther, his battle against Hitler's criminals. They live in Vienna and he's considered a visionary, but the Jews of the other communities around the world don't support him anymore. In Israel some teenager check a Nazi organization and they call Lieberman to warn him about frequent meetings of former criminals of the 3rd Reich.
All actors – Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott, Rosemary Harris, John Dehner, John Rubinstein, Anne Meara, Jeremy Black
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“- David Bennett: We have the right and we have the duty.
- Ezra Lieberman: To do what? To kill children.”You know, there was a nurse here, an angel of mercy called Miss Hannah, who actually gives me cigarettes. You know what she said to me the other day? She said, "Mr. Lieberman, if you can escape Buchenwald, and you can escape those bullets, then a few cigarettes will not hurt you".
“Not Mozart. Not Picasso. Not a genius who will enrich the world. But a lonely little boy with a domineering father, a customs officer who was 52 when he was born. And an affectionate doting mother who was 29. The father died when he was 65 when the boy was nearly 14... Adolf Hitler.”
“- Sidney Beynon: Have you any idea how many men in their mid-60s die every day?
- Ezra Lieberman: I try not to think about it.”“Do you know what I saw on the television in my motel room at one o'clock this morning? Films of Hitler! They are showing films about the war! The movement! People are fascinated! The time is ripe! Adolf Hitler is alive!”
“He was the chief doctor of Auschwitz, who killed 2.5 million people, experimented with children - Jewish and non-Jewish - using twins mostly, injecting blue dyes into their eyes to make them acceptable Aryans... amputating limbs and organs from thousands without anesthetics.”
“He betrayed me, he betrayed you, he betrayed the Aryan race!”
“- Barry Kohler: Okay, I'm running it down now. It will only take a second.
- Ezra Lieberman: Take your time, old men don't go back to sleep once they've been awakened.”“- Dr. Josef Mengele: You are going to be the world's greatest photographer, are you not? Have you ever felt superior to those around you? Like a prince among peasants?
- Bobby Wheelock: I feel different from everyone sometimes.
- Dr. Josef Mengele: You are infinite different. Infinite superior. You are born of the noblest blood in the world.”“- Dr. Josef Mengele: You are born of the noblest blood in the world. You have it within you to fulfill ambitions one thousand times greater than those at which you presently dream, and you shall fulfill them, Bobby. You shall. You are the living duplicate of the greatest man in history: Adolf Hitler.
- Bobby Wheelock: Oh man, you're weird.”“We were in a Biblical frame of mind on the twenty-third of May 1943, at the Berghof. He had denied himself children because he knew that no son could flourish in the shadow of so godlike a father! But when he heard what was theoretically possible, that I could create one day not his son, not even a carbon-copy but another original, he was...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Do Nazis answer prayers, Herr Lieberman? No, that is God's business and I have thanked Him every night since He pushed Emil under that car. He could have done it sooner, but I thank Him anyway.”
“- Professor Bruckner: Cloning. What if I were to tell you that I could take a scraping of skin from your finger and create another Ezra Lieberman?
- Ezra Lieberman: I would tell you not to waste your time on my finger.”
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