Marian Seidowsky credited as playing...
Anselm von Basini
- Anselm von Basini: Reiting, I was supposed to pay you back today, but could you give me a couple more days?
- Reiting: Sorry. I need the money now. Didn't you receive your allowance?
- Anselm von Basini: Sure, but I've got other debts too. I owe Beineberg and Tschusch from last month.
- Reiting: Go begging to them. I'm not one to wait in line.
- Anselm von Basini: Of course not. You're my friend.
- Reiting: You shouldn't have gambled the money.
- Anselm von Basini: I wanted to double it.
- Reiting: My last word on this subject: Pay me back tomorrow or...
- Anselm von Basini: Or?
- Reiting: Or you'll be subject to my terms.
- Anselm von Basini: What sort of terms?
- Reiting: You give me your allegiance in everything I do.
- Anselm von Basini: If that's all, I'll do it gladly. I'll stick by you.
- Reiting: But not just when you feel like it. You must do whatever I say. Blind obedience, as it were. Well?
- Anselm von Basini: I'll bring you the money tomorrow.
- Anselm von Basini: [on Beineberg] Same as Reiting, only in another way. He preaches to me at length about my soul. He has me sit down and stare at a glass until I'm sluggish and tired. Then I have to get on the ground and howl like a dog.
- Thomas Törless: What for?
- Anselm von Basini: I have no idea.
- Thomas Törless: And you let them do all that to you? You do what they tell you?
- Anselm von Basini: What else can I do? I want to be a decent person again and be left in peace.