Manya Lodge (Mady Christians) is happy that the house of women she’s moved into is to be run as a democracy. Helen Stacey (Patricia Collinge) tries to help her finish a sentence. From Tender Comrade ( dir. Edward Dmytryk, 1943):
“Once in Germany we had a democracy, but we —”Another of those moments from 1940s movies that feel so relevant to our time.
“You lost it.”
“Nein. We did not lose it. We let it be murdered — like a little child.”
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