The Mistress (1952)
Hildegard Knef: Inge Hoffmann
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Kurt Willbrandt : [Coming into Inge's room suddenly] Where do you come from?
Inge Hoffmann : I'm tired. Please let me go to bed.
Kurt Willbrandt : You two left at two o'clock, now it's five! I want to know where you were!
Inge Hoffmann : You really don't know?
Kurt Willbrandt : Are you saying that you're actually having an affair with that guy? Answer me!
Inge Hoffmann : You sent me to the motorway, you wanted me to... to talk to him, right!
Kurt Willbrandt : But not to sleep with him!
[Inge moves to her bed and sits down]
Kurt Willbrandt : Did you talk to him? The job must take place the night after tomorrow, and we don't know more of him than we did three weeks ago.
Inge Hoffmann : I couldn't. He loves me, and he thinks...
Kurt Willbrandt : Don't give me that personal crap. Give me a break! "He loves me"... that's what you think! He loves his wife. With you he's having fun. You love him! Do you think I didn't notice what's the matter with you... that you're running after him?
Inge Hoffmann : What if it were so? I didn't want this... really!
Kurt Willbrandt : [Kurt approaches her and gently grabs her hair and shakes her head] Poor creature! You only tell this to yourself because you think he's decent. So decent that he thinks you're decent too, for the sake of convenience.
Inge Hoffmann : He is decent!
Kurt Willbrandt : And where did he get all the money, if you don't mind me asking? He surely hasn't found it. Ask him sometime! He'll tell you a nice fairytale. Time for you to realise... how people are and what's going on
Inge Hoffmann : Not everyone is like you!
Kurt Willbrandt : Yes... maybe I'm exceptionally unpleasant.
[Kurt lights up one of his joints and takes a long drag]
Kurt Willbrandt : But at least I'm not deceiving myself. And you neither.
[He stands up and leans on the end of her bed]
Kurt Willbrandt : And that makes me more decent than this petty bourgeois... with his violet eyes, who tells you a pack of lies because he likes to go to bed with you.
Inge Hoffmann : What else do you want from me?
Kurt Willbrandt : [He sits on the end of her bed and stares in despair] Yes... what do I actually want from you? I never claimed to love you. Perhaps I can't love at all. But I know that I couldn't bear this damned life without you. And that's more than love. If such a thing as love even exists.
[He goes to take another drag of his joint but Inge takes it from him and stubs it out]