Extended Reading

Phoenix quotes

  • [first lines]

    Lene Winter: [arriving at the border]

    Soldat an der Brücke: Passport... Nice car. Where did you get it from?

    Lene Winter: It's from Switzerland.

    Soldat an der Brücke: Just like you?

    Lene Winter: Like me.

    Soldat an der Brücke: [whistles to the gate] They're from Switzerland. The girl too.

    [to her passenger]

    Soldat an der Brücke: I want to see your face.

    Lene Winter: Can I talk to you?

    [gets out]

    Lene Winter: Come on, she's not Eva Braun.

    Soldat an der Brücke: Of course not. The bitch got killed by her husband.

    Lene Winter: She's from the camps.

  • Nelly Lenz: I no longer exist.