I Am Dina (2002)

Maria Bonnevie: Dina

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Quotes 

• Dina : Look at me. Look at me. Let all the cares and sorrows of this world fall away from you...

• Dina : [last words in the international version]  Leo. You came back.

  Leo Zhukovsky : Try to rest...

  Dina : Are you going to stay?

  Leo Zhukovsky : I'm always going to be leaving you, Dina, but I will always come back.

• Lorch : Your mother is in heaven. She's... She's happy, because now... now she's free... free of all the sorrows and cares of this world. And that just makes her happy.

  Dina : Does it?

  Lorch : Yes

  Dina : So it was a good thing that happened to my mama?

  Lorch : Well...

  Dina : [Dina points the sky]  Up there, there isn't any sadness and no naughty girls. Nobody else knew how to send mama up there but I did. I set mama free.

• Dina's Father : Jacob owns the biggest merchandised establishment in the whole county. He is a wealthy man.

  Dina : He can wipe his ass with his money.

• Dina : Kindness isn't exactly what I'm best known for.

  Leo Zhukovsky : Then I'm in luck this evening.

• Leo Zhukovsky : You seem to take all this talk of suffering and death very well...

  Dina : I'm not easily scared.

  Leo Zhukovsky : Not even by death?

  Dina : Not even by that.

• Niels : It's a lie.

  Dina : Oh, yes?

  Niels : Oh, yes.

  Dina : At any rate, she is pregnant and I hardly think that the child was put there by the Holy Ghost.

• [last words] 

  Dina : I am Dina. Watching her beloved drifting away. Am I condemned to this forever? I am the mothers' eye, which sees the child, which sees myself. I am Dina, who sees.

• Dina : I know of no fine words to do with love. They wither like flowers when I try to pick them.

• Dina : We played a game together. Mama and I. On the cliff. It was a simple game - I spun around and would count my steps moving in a random direction. If I went over the cliff, she would have to come and catch me. But she never did. I couldn't count to more than twenty.

• Jacob : [Dina got scared of her husbands' behaviour and has climbed up a high ladder during her wedding. Wedding guests watch as her husband and her father are trying to get her down]  Come down Dina! Please, on my knees! Come down, I beg you!

  Dina's Father : Get down here right now! What are you? Crazy? Do you want to ruin your whole wedding?

  Dina : You beast!

  Jacob : Yes I know, I know...

  Dina : You are like a stallion, you!

  Jacob : No! It won't happen again!

  Dina : Oh, no?

  Jacob : Come down now, I promise.

  Dina : And you expect me to believe that?

  Jacob : I swear to God.

  Dina : Well, that demands witnesses.

  Jacob : [Jacob calls out to the whole crowd]  I, Jacob Groenelv, swear by almighty God, that I will never again carry on like a stallion!

• Dina : Jacob was no longer strong. He was frightened and would not play. He was starting to see who I was.

• Dina's Father : He's to be called Jacob of course?

  Dina : No, he's not. He's to be called Benjamin.

  Dina's Father : Benjamin? Nobody in our family has ever been called "Benjamin".

  Dina : You can brawl all you like, it will be as I say.

• Dina : When she feels bad, she screams. Do you still hear her?

  Dina's Father : Oh, yes... I hear her... I hear her every single day.

  Dina : Won't you ever stop hating me?

  Dina's Father : Dina, please...

  Dina : Tell me the truth, Father! Tell me what you feel.

  Dina's Father : What I feel? I feel... nothing.

• Dina : I'm tired of all your accusations. Niels probably had a reason to hang himself. It was his decision.

  Dina's Father : It's strange, Dina, how people always die around you.

• Benjamin : You've got to stay here!

  Dina : No.

  Benjamin : If you go, I won't be here when you get back!

  Dina : And where will you be?

  Benjamin : I might be dead!

  Dina : Then you have had a short life.

  Benjamin : I don't care!

  Dina : Benjamin, everyone cares about their own life.

  Benjamin : Well, I don't! I will come back as a ghost!

  Dina : I should hope so. Then I won't have lost you completely.

• Dina : I don't know anything about you! Who are you?

  Leo Zhukovsky : I'm no-one, Dina. I'm no-one. I am my mission.

  Dina : I can't marry a man who does not exist.

  Leo Zhukovsky : Oh, are we to be married?

  Dina : Yes. Leo.

  Leo Zhukovsky : I doubt that the prison chaplain can perform any other ceremonies other than the last rites.

  Dina : It must not happen.

  Leo Zhukovsky : Don't tell me you're beginning to fear death.

  Dina : I want to spend my life with you.

• Dina : They all die... And the ones that don't die... I kill.