Pearls of the Deep (1965) Poster

Emil Iserle: Stryc (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara")

Quotes 

  • Stryc (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara") : Zdena Malíková soothed me and whispered, "You will win me over only as a man." I wanted to jump out the window, but it was the second floor. Zdena cuddled up to me and whispered that I could do anything I liked to her. So I informed her that Strauss, upon hearing Mozart's "Jupiter," he said that it disgusted him. And she answered, "You disgust me. Can't you see this body of mine?"

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    Stryc (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara") : I went to have a look at the Archbishop's residence last year. The garden was deserted, fallen leaves everywhere. There was just an old woman sitting there munching on apples. If only the dear deceased Archbishop Khon had seen that. He would have gone at her and let her have it for not sweeping.

  • Stryc (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara") : I wanted to run away, but there was a St. Bernard growling at the door. So I started singing, "Be only mine, my Violetta," and surrendered to her.

  • Stryc (segment "Smrt pana Baltazara") : When Smetana died. they would use his sheet music to wrap sausages. That's the thing, to amuse the nation in its spare time. Antonín Dvorák wanted to do that too, but the nation prefers to drink and have the "Humoresque" played to order.

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