Leslie Howard credited as playing...
Holger Brandt
- Holger Brandt: Yes, champagne's what we need. A couple of glasses of champagne - and two strangers have a rich and happy past.
- Margit Brandt - His Wife: Please, you know how I'd love to come with you. But, darling, you must realize that our home is *my* responsibility. Just as concerts and practice are yours.
- Holger Brandt: Yes, I suppose you're right.
- Holger Brandt: There comes a night each year when one senses that Winter is suddenly over.
- Anita Hoffman: Yes, that Spring has come. Oh, how I look forward to it through the dreary months.
- Holger Brandt: Look, there goes the Winter now: broken, rushing to the sea. Don't you feel when Spring comes that the world is yours just for the asking? That there's nothing that you couldn't be?
- Anita Hoffman: Tonight, I would dare anything. Or, perhaps, it's only the champagne.
- Holger Brandt: Do you know what you remind me of?
- Anita Hoffman: No. Tell me.
- Holger Brandt: A Viennese waltz. Smiling but melancholy. A melody of the days when Vienna was a happy city.
- Margit Brandt - His Wife: I hope it won't be a long tour.
- Holger Brandt: But I've been home longer than I usually stay.
- Margit Brandt - His Wife: For that very reason - the days are going to seem so much emptier.
- Anita Hoffman: What am I? Your shadow. I don't exist without you.
- Holger Brandt: You're not a shadow. How can you talk such nonsense?
- Anita Hoffman: But it's enough. Let me be with you like this - always.
- Holger Brandt: And will that be enough? Always?
- Holger Brandt: As time goes on, I suppose the memory of her will grow vague in my mind. But always in my heart will remain the image of her loveliness.
- Holger Brandt: We're all human, tragically human, and that we, all of us, make mistakes right up to the end of our lives.