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La ciociara

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Cesira: Do you know what they have done those "heroes" that you command? Do you know what your great soldiers have done in a holy church under the eyes of the Madonna? Do you know?
American Soldier: Peace, peace.
Cesira: Yes, peace, beautiful peace! You ruined my little daughter forever! Now she's worse than dead. No, I'm not mad, I'm not mad! Look at her! And tell me if I am mad! Rotten crazy bastards!

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English Soldier: There are lots of good things in Italy.
Michele Di Libero: You don't know Italy.
English Soldier: Oh, we know Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo.
Michele Di Libero: They are dead.

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Rosetta: Mama.
Cesira: Daughter! Daughter of gold. Forgive me. Forgive me. Enough. Rose, enough. Come here, my sweet daughter. Enough, enough. Enough, enough, enough. My little girl, my little girl, Rose! Sleep. My angel. Sleep, sleep. Sleep.

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Cesira: The boy's a bit mad. His father spent a fortune to educate him and all he gets are insults.
Rosetta: The things he said were true.
Cesira: What do you know about life? If you talked to me the way he does, I would slap you in the face.

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Giovanni: [about her deceased husband] Did you love him?
Cesira: But I married him.
Giovanni: And you didn't even like him. I feel sorry for you.
Cesira: I'd like to see you sleeping with the chickens! Eating once a day! And then a guy with money comes along and tells me, "I am taking you to Rome." I married Rome, not him!

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Giovanni: Go. See you tomorrow.
Cesira: [after Giovanni slaps her on the behind as she turns to leave, she turning back toward him] Don't act as if you own me! I am nobody's property, got it?

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Cesira: You may judge me as you like. It's obvious you don't know me.

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Cesira: Your wife is waiting for you. Go.
Giovanni: I couldn't care less. If the bombs kill her, I'll marry you.

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Cesira: There are no sins on my conscience. Well, you might count one... the day before yesterday.
Michele Di Libero: You see?
Cesira: It was not a sin for which I should die. And where do the children come into it?

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Cesira: Rosetta's a saint. I'm not even worthy to be her mother.
Michele Di Libero: No, you're something better than you think.

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Cesira: Does it seem right to you that a person has to stick to someone he doesn't love? It's terrible to go to bed with someone you don't like. Every night, all your life.

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La madre impazzita: Di-di-di-di-di-di-di! You can have this milk, if you like.
La madre impazzita: [pulling out her breast] I don't need it anymore. What for? They killed my baby. Who will I give it to? You want it? Who want's milk? Who wants my milk?

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Michele Di Libero: You Germans have war in your blood.
Ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea: War? War, my dear friend, is an experience without which a man cannot say he is a man.
Michele Di Libero: If that's true, I would rather be castrated.

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Cesira: [to Rosetta] You're getting a real behind on you like a woman.

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Cesira: Rose! Rose! Rosetta! Oh, my God, the horror! Rose! Analdo fetch some water. Fetch me some water!

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Giovanni: He used to tell me everything about you.
Cesira: And what did he tell you?
Giovanni: Everything.
Cesira: Tell me.
Giovanni: Once, we were fishing, and he was telling me how you look. He was bragging.

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Cesira: What are they singing?
Il passeggero sul treno: It's always something sad.
Cesira: Yes, they make you feel so melancholy.
Il passeggero sul treno: Do you know who has the right to be melancholy? Us Italians.

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Una contadina: [to Cesira and Rosetta] What beautiful creatures you are. And how my sons look at you.

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Filippo, il padre di Michele: Nice to meet you. We are celebrating a bad anniversary. My marriage!

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Filippo, il padre di Michele: I have a store in Fondi. People will always need groceries. Unless the Russians come.
Accordion Player: What do you mean?
Filippo's Friend: The Russians don't believe in business. Life without business is nothing.
Filippo, il padre di Michele: As if you ate unsalted food.

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Niece: Just between us, Mussolini, as a man. I mean, what do you think of him?
Filippo's Wife: He would scare me.
Serafino: How can you make love with that man? I'd freeze up.
Cesira: All you have to do is switch off the light.

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Russian: You seem like Ukrainian girl. Ukrainian eyes, beautiful.

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Cesira: [about the muscular topless man in the field] He's beautiful. Is he really a Russian?
Michele Di Libero: A deserter.
Cesira: They never tell you that they make them like that in Russia.

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Filippo's Friend: May the Virgin protect you!

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Cesira: I am so stupid. He was right, Michele. Escape. But you can't escape from this.

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Roman Citizens: Bombs! Bombs Away! Bombs Away!

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Cesira: What is Mussolini doing?
Giovanni: I don't even want to see him. That fanatic.
Cesira: He has to say something.
Giovanni: You, women - you believe all the talk.
Cesira: Eh... before they came to bomb us, things weren't so bad.

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Giovanni: If there is any news, I'll write.
Cesira: Not me! I won't write. It'd take me a page to write one word.
Giovanni: It's enough to just say hello.

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Paride's Friend: You talk as if you weren't an Italian.
Michele Di Libero: I'm not, if it means staying here and stuffing my face, while the rest of the country is dying. We're pigs! That's what we are! All pigs!

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Paride's Mama: He'll never come back.
Cesira: Where is he?
Paride's Mama: In Russia. Those Russian women, they only like foreign men.
Cesira: There are no men in Russia?
Paride's Sister: It's true. They like foreigners.

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Paride's Mama: War changes things.

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Cesira: Isn't there some safe place in the world?

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Cesira: You have a girl?
Michele Di Libero: No.
Cesira: Come on. Didn't you ever have one?
Michele Di Libero: No.
Cesira: But how can you live without a woman? A normal man can't do that.
Michele Di Libero: Today if a man can't sacrifice a little, he's of no use to himself, his family or country.
Cesira: Right, you can do without a lot of things, but not love.

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Cesira: You know something? It's all crazy as hell.

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Cesira: Can't I love if I want? A widow, she can't be loved?

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Michele Di Libero: You always say what is in your heart - right or wrong. I don't have the courage anymore.
Cesira: You're too honest, that's trouble.
Michele Di Libero: I am not honest with you.
Cesira: With me?
Michele Di Libero: Yes, with you.

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Michele Di Libero: I love you, Cesira.
Cesira: In such a troubled time, you think of things like that?

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Rosetta: He loves you. Michele.
Cesira: Go on.
Rosetta: I can see why, you're so beautiful.
Cesira: He's twenty-five years old. Never go with a boy younger than yourself.
Rosetta: But he's the nicest man in Sant'Eufemia.
Cesira: Being a nice man these days isn't much help.

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Michele's Elderly Friend in Fondi: [to the German officer] Don't listen to her! She's only a woman.

Cesira: Why didn't you tell me what you were going to do?
Rosetta: You were asleep.
Cesira: You two arranged this before. Last night!
Rosetta: Yes.
Cesira: [unwrapping a pair of nylon stockings] Who gave you these?
Rosetta: Florindo.
Cesira: And what for?
Rosetta: [indifferently] To wear.
Cesira: [rising anger] To wear?
Rosetta: Sure.
Cesira: [slapping Rosetta's face] Don't you ever say "sure" to me like that! Do you hear? You will not put those stockings on! You will not put them on! You will not put them on! You will not put them on! Now I'm going to smash his face, that dirty pig!

Cesira: [imploring the heavens] What's happened to her, God? What have I done wrong? Tell me, what have I done wrong?

Cesira: [regarding Rosetta with pity] She doesn't even cry. So stupid. He was right, Michele. Escape, escape. But you can't escape from yourself. You haven't even asked about Michele. He's dead! Michele!

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