Lola Montès (1955)

Oskar Werner: Student

Quotes 

• Student : We want to save you. They will surely come for you. This revolt - this revolt is a work of reactionaries. You represent love, freedom, everything they detest. They want to imprison you, perhaps kill you. But we are for love and the pursuit of happiness. We want to help you escape the country. We want to come with you, defend you.

  Lola Montes : What have I to do with revolutions, whether they come from the right or the left?

• Student : What? What is the matter with you? Are you crying? Don't cry. There's always a revolution somewhere! Now it's their turn.

• Lola Montes : You're much too young for all this.

  Student : No, no, no, no! Don't say that. At 20, I'm not too young.

  Lola Montes : You are.

  Student : No! Let me explain. It's not true. I know one thing. I'm not old but the king was old and you see how that ended. Moreover, you didn't love him.

  Lola Montes : Whereas you?

  Student : You can't help but love me. I'm young enough to offer you a new start - a - a new life. I would fear nothing, no obstacles, no conflicts. There would be no more fame, no more fortune, of course. What I have to offer is something else. A simple life, love in a new land. You might be happy as just another woman.

• Student : I'll pass my final exams. I'll soon be teaching Latin. Latin is wonderful. It's always in demand. Not in everyday life, of course, but we'd have our choice of universities.

• Student : Listen to me. There is such a thing as coincidence. I'm the first man you met in Bavaria and the last. Do you remember? You had invited me, I answered, "I'm going the other way." "You'll do that later," you said. And here, I am again with you. We're set out together. It's fate. It was written. It's - it's - it's destiny. Destiny. One mustn't fight destiny!

  Lola Montes : Or mistake one's destiny.