Pelle Quotes in Shadows in Paradise (1986)

Pelle: [in Swedish] Do you have a cigarette, friend?

Nikander: [in English] Not for you.

[first lines]

Pelle: Father?

Lassefar: Everything's gonna be fine.

Pelle: Tell it again.

Lassefar: This new country we're going to is very different.

Pelle: Talk more about it.

Lassefar: They put raisins in the pork roast and butter on the bread. They put a lot of butter on the bread. Brandy is cheap as water and it is so strong that it knocks you off. But your father can take it, Pelle, because he's strong.

Pelle: And children are free all day.

Lassefar: Yes, Pelle, yes.

Pelle: Tell it again.

Lassefar: You get so well paid that children don't need...

Pelle: Don't need to work. They can play all day long.

Lassefar: [smiling] Yes.

Pelle: [helping his father to remember the name of the prophets] Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiah and Jeremiah!

Lassefar: Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiah and Jeremiah!

Pelle: Father?

Lassefar: Can't we just stay here?

[Pelle nods that no]

Lassefar: You'll have to go without me, Pelle. I don't have strenght to travel anymore. I'm too old. Too old. I don't have a future. Do you understand?

[Pelle nods positively]

[last lines]

Lassefar: When we see each other again, maybe you'll have a home to return to.

Pelle: Say goodbye to Karna for me. Goodbye, father...