The Meetings of Anna (1978)

Helmut Griem: Heinrich Schneider

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• Ida : Have you heard from your mother? Do you write to her?

  Heinrich Schneider : Yes. Her letters are always the same and I reply that everything's fine. Someone who saw her in Brussels said she had backaches and she was very tired. She's also taken up smoking in her old age, but otherwise she's fine.

  Ida : I got a letter from her a month ago. She's like a sister to me. She said she thought of you a lot.

  Heinrich Schneider : Yes. I think about her too. Did you come here to talk about my mother?

• Heinrich Schneider : It's been a long time since I looked at the night.

• Heinrich Schneider : You meet a woman and go to her place. You think something wonderful's going to happen. You get your hopes up and then suddenly she says, "Get dressed." And you're alone once again. Is life always like that?

• Heinrich Schneider : My wife left me for a Turk. A very dark type.

• Heinrich Schneider : We could go for weeks lying side by side without feeling any desire, but it didn't matter. And often when I'd turn around to go to sleep she'd nestle up against me. It was so peaceful to melt into her, her smell, her flesh. And if she fell asleep first and turned her back on me, then I'd nestle against her and feel her round buttocks in the hollow of my stomach.

• Heinrich Schneider : You're going to leave me all alone. You shouldn't have come. Yes, you should have.