Memorable quotes for
Novecento (1976) More at IMDbPro »

Alfredo as a Child: What are you doing?
Olmo as a Child: I'm screwing the earth.

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Ada Fiastri Paulhan: I love the smell of earth!
Olmo Dalco: That's dried shit.

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Alfredo Berlinghieri: Where's my father's gun?
Olmo Dalco: I have hidden it.
Alfredo Berlinghieri: You'd better be careful. If you don't use it, it gets rusty.

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Attila Mellanchini: Alfredo Berlinghieri, you, and all parasites, will pay the bill for the Fascist revolution. And the bill will not be cheap. The bill will not be cheap. Everybody will pay! Everybody, rich and poor, gentry and peasant, they will pay with money and land and bread and cows and cheese and blood and shit!

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Alfredo Berlinghieri: [in the cowshed] My grandfather hanged himself in here, you know.

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Attila Mellanchini: Never bite the hand that feeds you.

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Attila Mellanchini: You're not allowed past this door!
Olmo Dalco: Where is my daughter?
Attila Mellanchini: You never learn the rules, do you?
Olmo Dalco: Let me see my DAUGHTER! Let me through!

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Olmo Dalco: This is my bride-trap.
Ada Fiastri Paulhan: Have you caught any brides?
Olmo Dalco: You're the first one.

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Ada Fiastri Paulhan: I don't need this anymore!
[pours wine over Regina's head]
Ada Fiastri Paulhan: I christen you queen of the witches!

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Alfredo Berlinghieri: I don't want anything to change from the way we are now!

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Olmo Dalco: [to Alfredo] You are the Padroné now. So send Attila away from here. Send him away, Alfredo!

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Ada Fiastri Paulhan: [indicates their servants] They are all related?
Alfredo Berlinghieri: Yes. A whole family of Dalco's. They've been working this land for generations.

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Alfredo Berlinghieri: [all three are lying naked in bed: Alfredo takes a glass of wine] Drink some wine, eh?
Neve: [pushes the glass away] No, please, no.
Olmo Dalco: [looks annoyed at Alfredo's persistence] She doesn't want it.
Alfredo Berlinghieri: [forces the wine into her mouth] Drink, you little whore.
[Neve swallows, but soon goes into a seizure]
Alfredo Berlinghieri: What the-?
Olmo Dalco: [realization appears on his face] Oh no, she's an epileptic!

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Alfredo's Grandfather: [speaking to a young dairy girl] Go to the dance, and tell them that the Padroné is dead. Tell them that, and enjoy the dance.

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Olmo Dalco: [leading a procession with Anita down a street in the early morning] Wake up! Wake up and come out!
Anita: [announcing the deaths of seven elderly Communists by arson] All of them murdered by the Fascists! Murdered by the Fascists!

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Attila Mellanchini: That's not a pussycat, that's a communist!

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Regina: Do you know how to play the wedding game?

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Attila Mellanchini: [attempts to organize the women] All of you back to work!
Ada Fiastri Paulhan: Oh, look ladies, it's the rooster, come to shepherd the hens again! Cluck, rooster, cluck!
[leads women in throwing straw at a bemused Attila]

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Man: I know who killed the boy.
Olmo Dalco: What? Who?
Man: I saw from a distance who it was.
Olmo Dalco: [intensely interested] Who was it!
Man: [walks away, starting to ramble] I walk all day, I speak to all...

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