Pia Degermark credited as playing...
Elvira Madigan • Hedvig Jensen
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: Don't you understand what we have to do, Sixten?
- Sixten Sparre: Don't say it.
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: We must. We don't have any choice.
- Kristoffer, Sixtens vän: What you need is an admirer. In your profession, I'm sure you have many opportunities.
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: He's not the first, that's true. But he's the best.
- Kristoffer, Sixtens vän: So far. There will be others.
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: No, he's the last for me.
- Kristoffer, Sixtens vän: It's not just about people. He's betrayed his country, too.
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: My mother is German. My father Danish. My stepfather is American. I have friends in France and Italy. Look, my hand is like a map.
- [shows Kristoffer her palm]
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: Here are lines, like borders. What does it matter where the lines are? I care about the hand. The whole hand.
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: Don't talk about love, Sixten. We can't butter our bread with it.
- Sixten Sparre: You want me to find a job? Where? Tell me!
- Sixten Sparre: You want me to find a job. Tell me! Where?
- Sixten Sparre: How am I supposed to do it? Should I go in and say, "My name is Count Sparre. I've deserted from the Swedish army. Can you give me work?" Is that how I should do it?
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: War is a soldier's job, right? Our circus tent burned down in Paris. It was hit by a grenade. I was only 2, but they told me. It was in '71. All our animals died in the fire. I can remember the smell. War is not fancy parades, Sixten. It's the smell of burnt flesh.
- [out of money, Elvira and Sixten have resorted to scrounging for food, with Sixten stealing some eggs]
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: Don't be sad. We're just going out to have breakfast. How do you want your eggs?
- Sixten Sparre: Hard-boiled.
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: How hard?
- Sixten Sparre: I'm sorry?
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: How many minutes?
- Sixten Sparre: Four.
- Elvira Madigan, alias Hedvig Jensen: From the start?
- Sixten Sparre: No, four minutes after the water boils. How many slices of bread do you want?