Taking Sides (2001)

Stellan Skarsgård: Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler

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• Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler : What kind of a world do you want, Major? What kind of world are you going to make? Do you honestly believe that the only reality is the material world, so you will be left nothing, nothing but feculence... more foul-smelling than that which pervades your nights... How was I to understand, how was I to know what they were capable of? No one knew. No one knew... .

• Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler : I have always tried to analyse myself carefully and closely. In staying here, I believed I walked a tightrope between exile and the gallows. You seem to be blaming me for not having allowed myself to be hanged...