Enemies, A Love Story (1989)

Lena Olin: Masha

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• Masha : Herman! This is the last time I'm going to talk to you, and I'm going to tell you you're the worst fraud I've known in my life! If you hear that I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.

• Masha : What sense is there in doing the dirty work for that swindler of a rabbi? At least become a rabbi. Swindle in your own name.

• Masha : She infuriates me. She's more devoted to material things than any atheist.

• Masha : You have your shiksa and you have me, but some bitch from Europe shows up and you leave to run off to meet her. A whore like that probably has syphilis too.

• Masha : Come home with me and I'll show you something your Yadwiga would blush at.

• Masha : Jewish law and all the other laws mean as much to me as last year's frost.

• Masha : Where was I five years ago this time? Still among the dead.

• Herman : I can't divorce Yadwiga.

  Masha : You can't? When the King of England wanted to marry the woman he loved, he gave up his throne and you can't get rid of a stupid peasant?

• Masha : Where are the Nazis? What kind of world is this without Nazis? A backward country, this America.

  [singing along with Billie Holiday on the radio] 

  Masha : It's very clear, Our love is here to stay, Not for a year, Forever and a day, And the radio, And the telephone, And the movies that we know, May just be passing fancies...

• Masha : Have you come back to Tamara?

  Herman : No. But she's also an angel.

  Masha : Introduce her to the rabbi. Maybe the two angels will make a new God. We're both devils.

• Herman : You swore to me. You swore to me on a holy oath.

  Masha : I swore falsely.

• Masha : Herman, you're afraid.

  Herman : Yeah, I'm afraid. Yeah. I'm afraid of God.

• Masha : Why wasn't I cremated like all the other Jews?

• Masha : If God could allow the Jews of Europe to be killed, what reason is there to believe he would prevent the extermination of Jews in America? God doesn't care. Right, Herman?

  Herman : Who knows?