The Pianist (2002)
Maureen Lipman: Mother
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Quotes
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Wladyslaw Szpilman : I'm not going anywhere.
Halina : Good. I'm not going anywhere either.
Mother : Don't be ridiculous, we've got to keep together.
Wladyslaw Szpilman : Look, look... If I'm going to die, I prefer to die in my own home. I'm staying put.
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Halina : We could hide the money. Look here. We can hide the money under the flower pots.
Father : No, no, no, no, I'll tell you what we do. We use tried and tested methods. You know what we did in the last war? We made a hole in the table leg
[taps the leg]
Father : and hid the money in there.
Henryk Szpilman : And suppose they take the table away?
Father : What do you mean, take the table away?
Henryk Szpilman : The Germans go into Jewish homes and they just take what they want, furniture, valuable, anything.
Mother : Do they?
Father : Idiot, what would they want with a table, a table like this?
[rips a piece of wood off the table]
Mother : What on earth are you doing!
Halina : No, listen. This is the best place for it. No-one would think of looking under the flower pots.
Henryk Szpilman : No, no, no, listen, listen to me, I've been thinking...
Wladyslaw Szpilman : Oh, really? That's a change.
Henryk Szpilman : You know what we do? We use psychology.
Wladyslaw Szpilman : We use *what*?
Henryk Szpilman : We leave the money and the watch on the table, and we cover it like this, in full view.
Wladyslaw Szpilman : [amazed] Are you stupid?
Henryk Szpilman : The Germans will search high and low, I promise you, they'll never notice!
Wladyslaw Szpilman : That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen, of course they'll notice it. Look.
[takes the violin and a bill, folds it and slips it into the opening of the violin]
Wladyslaw Szpilman : Look here... idiot.
Henryk Szpilman : And you call me stupid?
Mother : No, that is very good, because that is the last place they will ever look.
Henryk Szpilman : This will take hours!
Mother : We're not in a hurry, we'll get it back...
Wladyslaw Szpilman : It won't take hours.
Henryk Szpilman : How will you get them out? Tell me that, tell me how, I'd like to know, how would you get them out. You take each one out individually...
Halina : No-one listens to me, no-one.
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Mother : [crying] 20 zloty, that's all we have left, 20 zloty. What can I buy with 20 zloty? I am sick of cooking potatoes, potatoes, potatoes.
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Wladyslaw Szpilman : Where are we going?
Mother : Phhhhh, out of Warsaw.
Wladyslaw Szpilman : [confused] Out of Warsaw? Where?
Regina : You haven't heard?
Wladyslaw Szpilman : [exasperated] Heard what?
Regina : Haven't you seen the paper?
Wladyslaw Szpilman : No!
Regina : Ah, where's the paper?
Halina : I used it for packing.
Regina : [incredulous] Ah, she used it for packing.
