Helmut Berger credited as playing...
Martin Von Essenbeck
- Martin Von Essenbeck: Lisa. Look what I've brought you. Do you like this little horse?
- Lisa: Yes, thank you.
- Martin Von Essenbeck: You can ride on it. Do you like it? Hmmm? You can caress it. Try it Lisa. It's all yours. Do you like it?
- Lisa: Yes.
- Martin Von Essenbeck: You've never loved me. Never. You have always preferred him. You give him everything, everything that belongs to me - my factory, my money, my house, brick-by-brick! Even my name and your love! You're the worst, so it's you I hate! You can't imagine the evil I wish you!
- Martin Von Essenbeck: Guys, tonight I'll find myself something. A man, a real man. Guys, I'm fed up with boys. A man, a real man.
- Olga: [Naked, in bed, Martin kisses Olga's back] Stop it, Martin. Stop it, darling. I've got to go.
- Martin Von Essenbeck: Where are you going?
- Olga: I'm going to pose.
- Martin Von Essenbeck: You're posing naked?
- Olga: Yes, of course. Didn't you know?
- Martin Von Essenbeck: Stay with me.
- Olga: I cannot. I'm late. Didn't you have enough, huh? I'm late, darling. I've got to go. Stop it. Enough!
- Martin Von Essenbeck: Did someone hit you? Your mother? Does she do it often, on your tiny ass? Tell me the truth.
- Martin Von Essenbeck: I would do anything to destroy her security, her strength, and her power. Anything. I was always kept out. She only wanted to humiliate me. She never realized that I loved her and needed her. But now, all that changed to hate. I hate her. It's simple. I want to see her weak, ruined, and alone.
- Martin Von Essenbeck: Mother, it's not Aschenbach who frightens me, or Frederick. It's you, mother. You, who's always been my nightmare. You were the oppression, with your will to subjugate at all costs, in every way, with the idiotic wigs and lipstick.