Edge of Darkness (1943)
Morris Carnovsky: Sixtus Andresen
Quotes
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Captain Hauptmann Koenig : What do you want?
Sixtus Andresen : I... thought it only right, considering that you are... de facto commandant of the village, to acquaint you with a decision that I've made.
Captain Hauptmann Koenig : I'm very busy.
Sixtus Andresen : I know. I hope you'll forgive me. I know I'm being selfish. But, uhh... Why did you want my house?
Captain Hauptmann Koenig : For a block house! But what was it you wanted to see me about?
Sixtus Andresen : I cannot let you have my house.
Captain Hauptmann Koenig : You what?
Sixtus Andresen : I must forbid you to enter my house.
Captain Hauptmann Koenig : [laughs hysterically] Are you insane? I could have you shot!
Sixtus Andresen : I know. But if you're interested, I'll tell you what brought me to my conclusion, which is, I can assure you, completely unshakeable. You see, I am well past seventy, and at my age it would be foolish for me to be like Socrates' enemies, and fear death more than I love truth.
Captain Hauptmann Koenig : Go on!
Sixtus Andresen : ...I have no guns, no airplanes, no force. I disdain.
Captain Hauptmann Koenig : SILENCE!
Sixtus Andresen : What you don't understand is that the individual man...
Captain Hauptmann Koenig : QUIET, YOU FOOL!
Sixtus Andresen : - The individual man must stand against you like a rock.
Captain Hauptmann Koenig : [shaking Andresen] Will you STOP!
Sixtus Andresen : [calmly] No. If I were afraid, there might be hope for you, but I am not.
[Koenig slaps Andresen across the face]
Sixtus Andresen : There are certain things you cannot take away from me... What is mine, is mine. Do you think you can stop the working of my brain and my heart?
[slap]
Sixtus Andresen : We are not animals; we are men.
[slap]
Sixtus Andresen : That is the foundation of law - you cannot win.
[slap]
Sixtus Andresen : Where are your courts?
[slap]
Sixtus Andresen : Your judges?
[slap]
Sixtus Andresen : And your juries?
[slap]
Sixtus Andresen : Until you bring them forward, I must forbid you my house.
Captain Hauptmann Koenig : HE 'FORBIDS'!
[knocks the old man down the stairwell]
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Dr. Martin Stensgard : Sixtus Andressen, you're a man for whom we all have respect. You have taught our children... even some of us. We have found you to be wise. Surely in this matter, your wisdom...
Mortensen - Tailor : He's fallen asleep.
Sixtus Andresen : No, no, I was not asleep. I was thinking what to say when you asked me, and I knew that you would ask me. What can I say to you? How can I advise you? I've find now that I've lived more than 70 years, and all I know, I know from books, and in all the books I've read, not one do I remember that gives me an answer. Perhaps I read the wrong books. Forgive me if I've failed you. All this may prove a point.
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Sixtus Andresen : [to Koenig] The individual man must stand against you like a rock.