The Night Porter (1974)

Amedeo Amodio: Bert

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• [last lines] 

  Bert : Well?

  Klaus : He doesn't answer. It's off the hook.

  [lights a cigarette] 

  Klaus : Tell me, Bert. How long have you known Max?

  Bert : Let's not talk about it.

  Klaus : You don't, er... dance for him anymore?

  Bert : I've lost him.

• Bert : If I were rich, I'd hire you to do everything for me. Would you?

  Max : Yes, of course.

  Bert : You said that because you know I can't.

  Max : No.

  Bert : You don't really want to - you don't want to wipe anybody's arse.

  [Max proceeds to wipe Bert's backside with disinfectant] 

  Bert : Be careful.

  [Max gives Bert a shot] 

  Bert : You're very good at it. You never hurt.

• Bert : Good evening, Max. I'm not too late, I hope. I still have to prepare the show. Stravinsky, "The Firebird", as we planned.

  Max : No show tonight, Bert. I, um, can't leave the desk.

• Bert : Max, we all want the same thing - to live as peaceful citizens. Each of us has a respectable profession. Even I have some honorable duties. If you had wished, you could have had another career.

  Max : Look, Bert. If I choose to live like a...

  [directed to Dobson] 

  Max : Like a church mouse - I have a reason. I have a reason for working at night. It's the light.

  [to the others] 

  Max : I have a sense of shame in the light.

  Klaus : We are proud - of having been officers of the finest corps of the Third Reich. And if I were born again, I would do exactly what I did.

  Max : [does a Nazi salute]  Sieg Heil!

  Bert , Klaus , Kurt , Dobson : [instinctively do the same]  SIEG HEIL!

  [Max breaks out of the salute, and ruefully notes that the others still have their arms outstretched. He walks away, shaking his head]