- Padre Polenta: [Bombolini wants the priest to pray for the rain to stop while the villagers move the wine] Nobody ever prays for sun, they only pray for rain.
- Babbaluche: In Noah's ark, people prayed for rain?
- Padre Polenta: That was before organized religion.
- Babbaluche: Sure, all they had was God, the poor bastards.
- Italo Bombolini: It's nice to have a hot meal before you die.
- Rosa Bombolini: You aren't going to die.
- Italo Bombolini: I'm the mayor, no? The Germans come. I greet them. They threaten me! I spit in their face! They put a pistol to my head and blow out my brains!
- Rosa Bombolini: Why would they put a pistol to your head? The whole world knows Bombolini's brains are in his ass.
- [Young Fabio has been caught making love to Bombolini's daughter, Angela]
- Italo Bombolini: I'm going to punish that boy so that he remembers it for the rest of his life.
- [In the next scene, Fabio and Angela leave the church, having just been married]
- Italo Bombolini: [the town council wants to resist German occupation] Every Santa Vittorian has known for the last thousand years: brave men and good wine - they don't last long.
- Italo Bombolini: [yelling to the crowd below while drunk and sitting on top of the water tower] What do you want? Go on home. Go on home. Your lunch is ready.
- Italo Bombolini: [after being told that his 16 year old daughter Angela was just caught in bed with Fabio] Rosa, maybe it's love?
- Rosa Bombolini: She doesn't even know what love is - and she's making it right now!
- Italo Bombolini: I brought her to you. You were supposed to teach her!
- Babbaluche: [pointing to Rosa] It's the mother's fault!
- Rosa Bombolini: I told you shut up! Listen, Mayor Bombolini, I demand that you put on your pants *immediately* and come down and kill him.
- Italo Bombolini: You know what Rosa said? She said that tomorrow, when the town is sobered up, they will want me to resign. That's what she said.
- Babbaluche: Rosa's a loud-mouthed bitch, no offense.
- [the Fascist members of the Santa Vittoria town council are being held prisoner in the church bell tower. The priest brings them a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine]
- Francucci: It's criminal! You keep us locked up! We don't get enough food! You tell us nothing! There's not even a toilet!
- Padre Polenta: Next time, vote Communist!
- [last lines]
- Italo Bombolini: [yelling to the crowd in mimicking a just departed Captain Von Prum] What kind of people are you?
- [the crowd erupts in cheers, laughter and merriment]
- Rosa Bombolini: You drunken clown, go away from here and take these bums with you.
- Italo Bombolini: Woman, I tell you to open the gates.
- Rosa Bombolini: I open no gates to a mob of idiots.
- Italo Bombolini: This is no mob! These are the citizens of Santa Vittoria. And I order you to open those gates?
- Rosa Bombolini: Order? You order? You order me?
- Rosa Bombolini: I fell in love with him, at once, without even thinking. Only because he was handsome, strong, happy, with his big, beautiful hands.
- Italo Bombolini: Angela, I want your mother to teach you two things: the beauty of women and the danger of men!
- Angela: I love him so much. I can't help sweating.
- Rosa Bombolini: Well, I understand. Believe me, my girl, I understand you. You see, Fabio even in your sleep.
- Angela: Yes, Mama! Yes! And when I talk to him, I can't help it, the juices flow inside me.
- Rosa Bombolini: What?
- Angela: The juices, Mama!
- [Rosa slaps Angela]
- Angela: You can hit me all you like, but, that doesn't change anything. You are a woman, Mama. And so am I. It's time you taught me everything you know.
- Rosa Bombolini: No! What do I know after a life with your father?
- Rosa Bombolini: I told my parents I want that man in my bed. Only him! My father should have hit me over the head with the bottle.
- Angela: But, I don't want to marry Papa. I want to marry Fabio.
- Rosa Bombolini: I had him in bed. I had him! And that was all. Drunk! Drunk everyday from 12 noon to 4 in the morning. And the rest of the time snoring, like a jackass!
- Angela: I always cry when Fabio goes.
- Italo Bombolini: Of course, he's like a brother to you.
- Angela: I don't love him like a brother. I love him like a woman.
- Italo Bombolini: Angela... you're too young to think such things.
- Angela: That's what Fabio thinks. That I am a child.
- Italo Bombolini: He's right!
- Angela: But, I am 16 years old!
- Italo Bombolini: You're only 16.
- Angela: And I have the breasts of a woman.
- [cups her breasts]
- Italo Bombolini: Angela, please.
- Angela: And at night, when I'm in my bed, my breasts *ache* for Fabio.
- Italo Bombolini: Don't do that.
- [slaps Angela's hands cupping her breasts]
- Angela: And I only want to be with him.
- Rosa Bombolini: Bombolini, why do you always have to go all the way around the mountain when you want to take a leak next door?
- Italo Bombolini: Shut up! We've had enough democracy for awhile. I am the mayor here. I am the voice of the people!
- Benedetti: What the hell do you know about the people?
- Italo Bombolini: I smell the people! And the people smell me.
- Babbaluche: At least, no one can argue about that.
- Babbaluche: If there are two people in the world you should never meet, its the German and your wife Rosa.
- Italo Bombolini: Babbaluche, do you think she'll make trouble?
- Babbaluche: With Rosa, that's trouble.
- Italo Bombolini: I couldn't ask my people to rape themselves for 25%!
- Captain Von Prum: For what figure then would you be prepared to ask your poeple to rape themselves?
- Rosa Bombolini: You stand there fast asleep and a man is seducing a virgin.
- Italo Bombolini: Where?
- Rosa Bombolini: Right under your nose.
- Italo Bombolini: At this time of night? Who is it?
- Rosa Bombolini: It's your young friend Fabio.
- Italo Bombolini: [laughs] That young goat!
- Babbaluche: Good for him.
- Italo Bombolini: Who? Who is the lucky girl?
- Rosa Bombolini: The lucky girl, Mayor Stupid of the Stupid City of Saint Stupid is your daughter Angela.
- Italo Bombolini: Angela? My baby Angela?
- Rosa Bombolini: I have no more tears left for that man. I cried my *guts* out the day he supported Nazis. Up with Mussolini! Down with Mussolini! Yes! No! Yes! No! He's been doing it for 16 years!
- Rosa Bombolini: Don't try to cheat him. You are not *smart* enough.
- Italo Bombolini: I am not trying to cheat him. I am only trying to make him think I'm cheating him. If he doesn't think I'm cheating, he's gonna start wondering why I am not cheating or even trying to cheat.
- [first lines]
- Fabio: [yelling in the town square at the crack of dawn, winded after a tiring bicycle ride back to town] Padre! Padre Polenta!
- Padre Polenta: [yelling in return after opening an upper window of the church] Who is that?
- Fabio: It's Fabio, Padre. Fabio de la Romagna. I've come from Montefiore, and they want to ring the bell.
- Padre Polenta: Fabio, have you been drinking?
- Fabio: There is great news, Padre. Important news.
- [Fabio runs into the church and starts madly ringing the bell]
- Italo Bombolini: He was so beautiful at first. His promises for us. He was gonna help us build a school. Build roads. We were gonna plant the hillside with grass and trees. This tower to give us free water. Oh, the miracles of Benito Mussolini.
- Italo Bombolini: Look, you be reasonable and keep your fat mouth shut! Or, I'm gonna feed you my fist. I swear.
- Rosa Bombolini: [sarcastically] I'm frightened to death - of you and the cat.
- Italo Bombolini: I want to apologize. I'm not responsible now for what my wife says.
- Captain Von Prum: That's all right, Bombolini. I decided to forget it. But, she certainly is a bitch.
- Caterina: Let's go over it again. No promises. I owe you nothing. And you owe me nothing. I have a body. And you have a body. We are both grown people and we can do with them as we please.
- Captain Von Prum: We are simply trying to defray the cost of our occupying and, if necessary, protecting this community.
- Italo Bombolini: But, it's like paying a stranger to sleep in your bed with your wife!
- Captain Von Prum: I suppose it is.
- Fabio: He may look like a clown, but he acts like a real leader of men.
- Babbaluche: Inside, the best of the clown lives. And sooner or later the clown will come out; because, a clown is a clown and will always be a clown.
- Babbaluche: We have a gift. To the Captain - from the people of Santa Vittoria. Its not a great wine, but, it's not bad.
- Babbaluche: I've been an anarchist all my life; but, I've never been sure what it means - except that nothing means anything.
- Italo Bombolini: The trouble is, to all the important men in Santa Vittoria, I'm just a clown. A big, stupid clown. Don't deny it.
- Babbaluche: Who could deny it?
- Italo Bombolini: I will issue an official statement. Something simple and dignified: You can take this job and shove it up your ass.
- Babbaluche: That will be the finest moment in Italian history.
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By what name was The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) officially released in India in English?
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