Journal of a Crime (1934)

Douglass Dumbrille: Germaine Cartier

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• Dinner Guest : The way I look at it, Mr. Attorney General, there will be crimes of passion as long as there is passion.

  Germaine Cartier : In my opinion, madame, the urge to kill has roots in hatred, rather than in passion or in love. Hatred in it's most severe form. Jealousy. Don't you agree with me?

  Francoise Moliet : Well, you may be right, Mr. Attorney General. I don't know, but, a woman - or a man - may have a deeper motive for killing than jealousy or even love. A human being could kill because she herself has first been killed. Before she kills, the other two, the victim and her accomplice, must have killed her soul. Murdered it. A soul that murders in it's turn.

• Germaine Cartier : Paul, you'll have to explain the penal code to your wife.

  Paul Moliet : I'm afraid I'm not qualified to do that.

• Germaine Cartier : What did he say?

  Francoise Moliet : He said the number of love crimes grows daily in Germany.

  Germaine Cartier : Really?

  Herr Winterstein : Jawohl!

  Dinner Guest : And in France, Mr. Attorney General?

  Germaine Cartier : A love crime in France, my dear madame, is no longer ordinary currency. It's inflation!