Die Zauberflöte (I) (1991 TV Movie)
Manfred Hemm: Papageno
Quotes
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Papageno : [to the audience] How he stares at me!
[Tamino starts towards him. Papageno talks quickly in a panic]
Papageno : Careful, I have enormous strength!
Tamino : Enormous strength?
Papageno : Yeah.
Tamino : Then you are my rescuer who fought the monster?
[Papageno testily glances behind him at the corpse of a monster lying behind him. He looks, stunned, at the audience before turning back to face Tamino]
Papageno : Monster?
Tamino : But how did you do it? You have no weapons!
[Papageno thinks for a second]
Papageno : I don't need any.
[He grins gleefully]
Papageno : A good squeeze of my hand...
[He demonstrates by squeezing his hand]
Papageno : is stronger than any weapon.
Tamino : Then... then you... strangled it?
[Papageno makes a strangling motion with his hands and emphasises with a 'Kchhh' sound]
Papageno : Strangled.
[He walks off to one side and confesses desperately to the audience]
Papageno : I've never been that strong in all my life!