Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933)

Jürgen Ohlsen: Heini Völker

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Quotes 

• Stoppel : What's your name then?

  Heini Völker : Heini.

  Stoppel : Are you a member?

  Heini Völker : What's a member?

  Stoppel : So you're not a member, then, correct?

  Heini Völker : No, I'm not a member.

  Stoppel : Well its high time you become a member then. We have a Communist Youth Internationale. You're not a Nazi, are you?

  Vater Völker : What are you talking about, Stoeppel? The boy doesn't know a thing about that stuff. My boy a Nazi, now that is totally ridiculous. I'd kill my boy if I ever thought he was a Nazi... Whatever.

  Stoppel : It was nice talking to you, Heini.

• Heini Völker : Hi, mother.

  Mutter Völker : Hi, Heini.

  Mutter Völker : Did you spend the night someplace? What did you do?

  Heini Völker : It was wonderful mother.

  Mutter Völker : Did you stay with Stoeppel and his boys?

  Heini Völker : Stoeppel?

  Mutter Völker : What then?

  Heini Völker : No, I was with the others.

  Mutter Völker : What others?

  Heini Völker : Those with the crooked cross.

  Mutter Völker : Those were the Nazi's!

  Heini Völker : Right.

• Heini Völker : [Gerda kisses Heini on the cheek from behind]  Stop that rubbish.

  [he turns around, Gerda takes off her hat and reveals herself] 

  Heini Völker : You are a girl!

  Gerda : You notice everything!

  Stoppel : This is Gerda, the pearl of the Beusselkiez.

  junger Kommunist : Why don't you give her the kiss back?

  Heini Völker : No, I don't want to.

  junger Kommunist : Why not?

  Heini Völker : Everybody could come then.

• Kowalski : [after a customer left]  Say, what did he give to you?

  Heini Völker : [shows Kowalski]  A mark.

  Kowalski : Oh boy, actually this money belongs to me.

  Heini Völker : [offended]  Why?

  Kowalski : He haggled it down from me. All right, go home now.

  [Heini leaves] 

  Kowalski : Hey, and don't blow that money.

• Heini Völker : Where should I go?

  Vater Völker : What a question? To his father, that's where he belongs.

  Bannführer Kaß : That's the question. Where does a boy belong? You know, I had very good parents, but once I was fifteen, I went away. I wanted to the sea, become a sailor. Somewhere there were islands, palmtrees, Africa. Thousands of boys ran away.

  Vater Völker : Those boys were rascals.

  Bannführer Kaß : Well, boys are something wonderful. Boys are a big secret, since all the times. They fled to the trappers, to the gipsys. Always they were touched by the big migration. Then they start to stroll. Where does a boy belong these day? Why don't you ask your own boy?