Die Zauberflöte (I) (1991 TV Movie)

Manfred Hemm: Papageno

Quotes 

• Papageno : [playing his panpipes to summon Papagena]  One...

  [He plays again] 

  Papageno : Two...

  [He plays again, this time stopping halfway along the panpipe] 

  Papageno : Two and a half?

  [He blows a sad, off-key note into his panpipe] 

  Papageno : Three!

• Papageno : [to the audience]  How he stares at me!

  [Tamino starts towards him. Papageno talks quickly in a panic] 

  Papageno : Careful, I have enormous strength!

  Tamino : Enormous strength?

  Papageno : Yeah.

  Tamino : Then you are my rescuer who fought the monster?

  [Papageno testily glances behind him at the corpse of a monster lying behind him. He looks, stunned, at the audience before turning back to face Tamino] 

  Papageno : Monster?

  Tamino : But how did you do it? You have no weapons!

  [Papageno thinks for a second] 

  Papageno : I don't need any.

  [He grins gleefully] 

  Papageno : A good squeeze of my hand...

  [He demonstrates by squeezing his hand] 

  Papageno : is stronger than any weapon.

  Tamino : Then... then you... strangled it?

  [Papageno makes a strangling motion with his hands and emphasises with a 'Kchhh' sound] 

  Papageno : Strangled.

  [He walks off to one side and confesses desperately to the audience] 

  Papageno : I've never been that strong in all my life!