5 Fingers (1952)

John Wengraf: Count Franz Von Papen

Quotes 

• Count Franz Von Papen : I've often wondered, Countess - why did you leave Warsaw?

  Countess Anna Staviska : Bombs were falling. I felt I was in the way.

• Japanese Ambassador : [to Von Papen while the two of them listening a German vocalist singing Wagner]  If Excellency will excuse me, I have suddenly acquired a rather severe headache.

  Count Franz Von Papen : I've had mine for some time.

  Japanese Ambassador : Perhaps from standing too much?

  Count Franz Von Papen : From listening too much. Wagner makes me ill.

  Japanese Ambassador : Herr von Papen, I hope your country appreciates you. You're the only unpredictable German I have ever met.

• Count Franz Von Papen : You could have counted on our protection.

  Countess Anna Staviska : I understand you're protecting all of my estates and possessions in Poland. Who has them?

  Count Franz Von Papen : Field Marshall Goering, I believe.

  Countess Anna Staviska : Many of our German friends before the War would come as our guests to hunt wild pigs. I refused to invite Goering. I couldn't tolerate Goering killing a wild pig. It seemed too much like brother killing brother.

• Count Franz Von Papen : Why did you leave Warsaw?

  Countess Anna Staviska : Bombs were falling. I felt I was in the way.

  Count Franz Von Papen : And why did you come here? You and your late husband had lived so long in England.

  Countess Anna Staviska : I did not consider being bombed in London more attractive than being bombed in Warsaw.

• L. C. Moyzisch : Cicero?

  Count Franz Von Papen : The name is the personal choice of Herr Ribbentrop.

  L. C. Moyzisch : Has it any significance, sir?

  Count Franz Von Papen : None that I know of. Except the surprising fact that Herr Ribbentrop has even heard of Cicero.

• Count Franz Von Papen : Half-witted, paranoid gangsters. Moyzisch, it's time you understand - we represent a government of juvenile delinquents.

  L. C. Moyzisch : Yes, sir.