The Last Relic (1969)

Rolan Bykov: Vend Johannes

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Quotes 

• Brother Johannes : [to the monks]  Important message! Extraordinary assignment calls you from the protective bosom of the convent to send you into the wide world.

  [loudly] 

  Brother Johannes : Search for Miss Agnes von Mönnikhusen!

  [calmly] 

  Brother Johannes : Among the friends and among the enemies. From under the land and from the top of the land. If you find her... Then maybe God will forgive you that you are... Thieves. Drunkers. Letches. Loafers. Blockheads!

• Brother Johannes : I've asked our common friend and acquaintance Ivo Schenkenberg to help us.

  Abtiss : [with a disgust]  He's a rotter!

  Brother Johannes : [with a pretended surprise]  Who? Ivo Schenkenberg? Well, yes. He is a rotter. *And a drunker.* He's a free man, as he likes to say.

  Abtiss : [firmly]  Free men are the biggest heretics!

• Brother Johannes : [holding up a test-tube]  What a magnificent colour!

• Monk : Holy Father, they smashed the Holy Relic!

  Brother Johannes : Oafs will be oafs!

• [about von Risbieter] 

  Brother Johannes : Impertinent youth!