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[subtitled version, when Valerie sees Gracian hanged]
Orlik: It's nothing, just a hanged man.
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[subtitled version]
Grandmother: Hedvika is marrying
Valerie: Poor Hedvika
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[subtitled version]
Orlik: [of The Polecat] He's one hundred years overdue for death
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Elsa: Your sister still hasn't returned?
Orlik: Where's Valerie? You must know.
Elsa: You're adorable when you're angry.
Orlik: Where's Valerie?
Elsa: I'll tell you on one condition. You must make love to me.
Orlik: Never!
Elsa: [Annoyed] Leave this room.
Orlik: No. I'm not your guest. You leave!
Elsa: You'll regret this.
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Orlik: [singing] Good night, my dark-haired girl, Good night and sweet dreams, When you wake, my love, Do not reveal your secret.
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Tchor-konstábl: I have a plan, Elsa. I need Orlik's heart.
Elsa: You mean to kill Orlik?
Tchor-konstábl: His heart will revive my daughter and give her eternal youth.
Elsa: Richard, transplant Orlik's heart into my breast.
Tchor-konstábl: You're betraying Valerie.
Elsa: Richard, you'll do as I say.
Tchor-konstábl: With a bleeding heart.
Valerie: [listening secretly from nearby] Orlik. Orlik why did I abandon you?
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Valerie: Grandma, the actors have arrived.
Grandmother: You should be more interested in the missionaries arriving.
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[first lines]
Valerie: Who's there?
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Grandmother: Are you playing with your earring, child?
Valerie: I'm not a child anymore. In fact, just last night...
Grandmother: At the age of 13 - just like your mother.
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Grandmother: I'm warning you. Get rid of those earrings. Your mother put them away the day she entered the convent. Your father was the bishop. As you know, they're both in heaven now.
Valerie: Is there some secret in these earrings?
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Valerie: This is only a dream. I'm asleep and all this is a dream.
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Orlik: He wants you to love him.
Valerie: How can I love him when I'm afraid of him?
Orlik: That's exactly why.
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Grandmother: Since the day you seduced and abandoned me - I've never loved another man.
Tchor-konstábl: How sad.
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Grandmother: What's I'd give to become young again like you! Richard, tell me your secret. I'll give you anything you want!
Tchor-konstábl: Give me back this house.
Grandmother: That would be robbing Valerie.
Tchor-konstábl: You're ready to commit far worse acts.
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Gracián: Your father, the bishop, was a refined and sensitive man. He'd faint when the prostitutes came to confession - and all the beautiful women adored him.
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Gracián: There is no better time for contemplation. What beautiful breasts you have!
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Gracián: What I desire from you is sweet. You're so lovely. You're magnificent.
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Grandmother: It is done. My house is yours again.
Tchor-konstábl: And now we will wait until midnight - by the conjugal bed.
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Hedvika: All my dreams have come to nothing.
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Elsa: Old people have their odd whims.
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Orlik: Beware of the Polecat.
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Hedvika: Valerie, I'm saved! Look. The marks are gone. Your kisses have restored my health. You're so beautiful.
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Valerie: Orlik, why hast though forsaken me?
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Valerie: Is all this but a dream?
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Tchor-konstábl: I, a servant of the Lord and a missionary, have come among you today, dear maidens, for your instruction and edification. O virginal maiden, do you know what you are? You're an alabaster hand proffered in greeting. You're a pomegranate yet to be split open. You're a boat-shaped leaf, an opening rosebud. The callous hand that would touch your breast would leave an indelible imprint. But I am here with you, my maiden. In place of your guardian angel, I bend down to you and with the most exquisite ointment I bless your lips, your breasts, your loins.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders Quotes
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Director: Jaromil Jires
Language: Czech Release date: October 16, 1970