I Am Dina
2002
Dina: We played a game together. Mama and I. On the cliff. It was a simple game - I spun around and would count my steps moving in a random direction. If I went over the cliff, she would have to come and catch me. But she never did. I couldn't count to more than twenty.
Lorch: Your mother is in heaven. She's... She's happy, because now... now she's free... free of all the sorrows and cares of this world. And that just makes her happy. Dina: Does it? Lorch: Yes Dina: So it was a good thing that happened to my mama? Lorch: Well... Dina: (Dina points the sky) Up there, there isn't any sadness and no naughty girls. Nobody else knew how to send mama up there but I did. I set mama free.
Jacob: Isn't Dina going to dine with us? Dina's Father: No. She takes her meals in the kitchen. Dagny: She's... happiest that way.
Dina's Father: Jacob owns the biggest merchandised establishment in the whole county. He is a wealthy man. Dina: He can wipe his ass with his money.
Jacob: (Dina got scared of her husbands' behaviour and has climbed up a high ladder during her wedding. Wedding guests watch as her husband and her father are trying to get her down) Come down Dina! Please, on my knees! Come down, I beg you! Dina's Father: Get down here right now! What are you? Crazy? Do you want to ruin your whole wedding?! Dina: You beast! Jacob: Yes I know, I know... Dina: You are like a stallion, you! Jacob: No! It won't happen again! Dina: Oh, no? Jacob: Come down now, I promise. Dina: And you expect me to believe that? Jacob: I swear to God. Dina: Well, that demands witnesses. Jacob: (Jacob calls out to the whole crowd) I, Jacob Groenelv, swear by almighty God, that I will never again carry on like a stallion!
Dina: Look at me. Look at me. Let all the cares and sorrows of this world fall away from you...
Jacob: (Dina is drinking and laughing with sailormen. Her husband tries to get her attention) Dina... Dina. Dina! sailor: Pardon me, I think that your father wishes to have a word with you.
Dina: Jacob was no longer strong. He was frightened and would not play. He was starting to see who I was.
Dina's Father: He's to be called Jacob of course? Dina: No, he's not. He's to be called Benjamin. Dina's Father: Benjamin? Nobody in our family has ever been called "Benjamin". Dina: You can brawl all you like, it will be as I say.
Lorch: Dear Dina, by the time you read this letter, I will be dead. Has life been good to you and have you found love? Promise me that you will... That you will embrace life and not death... And find yourself a man who will help you to live in a world in which there are no ghosts. Do not ever be lonely as I have been. For I have only one friend. Death. He lies here beside my bed faithful till the end. And his cold breath makes my eyes water. Dina... pray for me. Lorch.
Dina: Kindness isn't exactly what I'm best known for. Leo Zhukovsky: Then I'm in luck this evening.
Leo Zhukovsky: You seem to take all this talk of suffering and death very well... Dina: I'm not easily scared. Leo Zhukovsky: Not even by death? Dina: Not even by that.
Niels: It's a lie. Dina: Oh, yes? Niels: Oh, yes. Dina: At any rate, she is pregnant and I hardly think that the child was put there by the Holy Ghost.
Dina: When she feels bad, she screams. Do you still hear her? Dina's Father: Oh, yes... I hear her... I hear her every single day. Dina: Won't you ever stop hating me? Dina's Father: Dina, please... Dina: Tell me the truth, Father! Tell me what you feel. Dina's Father: What I feel? I feel... nothing.
Dina: I'm tired of all your accusations. Niels probably had a reason to hang himself. It was his decision. Dina's Father: It's strange, Dina, how people always die around you.
Benjamin: You've got to stay here! Dina: No. Benjamin: If you go, I won't be here when you get back! Dina: And where will you be? Benjamin: I might be dead! Dina: Then you have had a short life. Benjamin: I don't care! Dina: Benjamin, everyone cares about their own life. Benjamin: Well, I don't! I will come back as a ghost! Dina: I should hope so. Then I won't have lost you completely.
Dina: I don't know anything about you! Who are you? Leo Zhukovsky: I'm no-one, Dina. I'm no-one. I am my mission. Dina: I can't marry a man who does not exist. Leo Zhukovsky: Oh, are we to be married? Dina: Yes. Leo. Leo Zhukovsky: I doubt that the prison chaplain can perform any other ceremonies other than the last rites. Dina: It must not happen. Leo Zhukovsky: Don't tell me you're beginning to fear death. Dina: I want to spend my life with you.
Dina: They all die... And the ones that don't die... I kill.
(last words) Dina: I am Dina. Watching her beloved drifting away. Am I condemned to this forever? I am the mothers' eye, which sees the child, which sees myself. I am Dina, who sees.
Dina: (last words in the international version) Leo. You came back. Leo Zhukovsky: Try to rest... Dina: Are you going to stay? Leo Zhukovsky: I'm always going to be leaving you, Dina, but I will always come back.