The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924)

Lars Hanson: Gösta Berling

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• Gösta Berling : Cavaliers! Midnight approaches! The witching hour draws near - Now is the time to raise our glasses!

• Gösta Berling : Beerencreutz! Sing to us!

  Beerencreutz : [singing]  The brethren may stumble, drunk with wine. My love has forsaken me, but in my heart, she is still mine. I fill my glass to soothe my sorrow, and all my pain will be gone by the morrow.

• Gösta Berling : Beer warms your belly - and there's no life without schnapps!

• Gösta Berling : It is true, I have been a drunkard! But which one of you has a right to judge me? Do you not all get drunk at times?

• Gösta Berling : Your only God is strong drink! You got the minister you deserve!

• Gösta Berling : You all mean well, Countess, but for me there is no going back. I am doomed to perish!

  Elizabeth Dohna : No man who is loved by a good woman is doomed to perish!

  Gösta Berling : I am and will remain damned.

• Gösta Berling : Life must be endured! You just turn the page and go on!

• Gösta Berling : Shame on you, Miss Marianne, kissing Gösta Berling full on the mouth!

• Marianne Sinclaire : Beware or I shall thrust my dagger into your heart!

  Gösta Berling : So, kissing Miss Marianne will cost me my life?

  Marianne Sinclaire : I would like to kill you!

  Gösta Berling : Please do. Strike true! Put an end to my miserable life!

• Märtha Dohna : Do you think that a Cavalier would dare kiss my daughter?

  Gösta Berling : But perhaps your daughter would dare kiss a Cavalier?

• Gösta Berling : Long live the new masters of Ekeby! Here's to the downfall of Ekeby!

• Gösta Berling : Beyond Löfven lies Vänern, further beyond lies the sea, and even further beyond lies the whole wide world! Let us elope and go there, you and I!

• Gösta Berling : We can neither turn around nor stop. We must race forward! Don't you see what are chasing us?

  Elizabeth Dohna : Wolves!