The Witness (1969)

Lajos Öze: Virág Árpád

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• Virág Árpád : Life is not a whipped-cream cake, Pelikán.

• Virág Árpád : All I can say, Comrade Pelikán, is that the international situation is intensifying.

• Virág Árpád : But just remember this, Comrade Pelikán. The class struggle is intensifying.

• Virág Árpád : That's a new skirt, isnt't it?

  Gogolák elvtársnõ : It is, Comrade Virág.

  Virág Árpád : It's too short. Leave the sexuality to be the opium of the declining Western.

• Virág Árpád : The international situation is intensifying. We've caught up with the latest group of inner parasites.

• Pelikán József, gátõr : I feel a bit bad about it, though. Why do we have to make such a fuss over it? We deceived the people after all.

  Virág Árpád : Who did we deceieve? Ourselves? We know what it's all about. The researchers? They're happy to have their medals. The masses? They don't eat lemons or oranges, but they're happy to celebrate. The imperialists? We've given them a thorough beating. I wouldn't like to be in their shoes. We proclaimed a slogan: let there be a Hungarian orange! And there it was! We made no empty promises, Pelikán!

• Virág Árpád : The suspicious thing about them is that they're not suspicious.

• Pelikán József, gátõr : Is it possible that I'm a spy?

  Virág Árpád : Everything's possible.

• Virág Árpád : But remember: those who don't trust us, don't trust themselves and those who don't trust us don't trust our bright future, either. And those who don't trust our happy, bright future... are traitors.

• Virág Árpád : We sacrifice our entire lives for you people, but you don't deserve us, you heartless rabble.