German translation in "Marathon Man" (1976)

Not that it’s actually needed for the scene, but inquiring minds wanna know.

Near the beginning of the movie a car driven by a man named Szell stalls, and an already highly POed motorist (Rosenbaum, whose car repairs hadn’t gone according to plan) starts yelling for him to get moving. When Rosenbaum calls him a ‘schmuck,’ it really gets heated because Szell realizes that he’s dealing with one of those GD Jews that his people had tried to eliminate. Rosenbaum, hearing him talk back in German, is even more incensed that the person stalling him is a German. They trade exchanges back and forth, but Szell is speaking German. I did catch Juden (or was it Yehudi–I’ve already deleted it) and Scheiss, so I suspect there was some cursing.

Anyone??? I meant to snatch a snip of it, but deleted it too soon. Probably available streaming somewhere.

Trivia note on the odd chance that anyone doesn’t already know this: The actor playing Szell was a) a survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, and b) a person of interest in a suspected sabotage event to cause the disaster.

I caught one sentence: Gehen Sie die Toifel = Go to the devil. Go to Hell.

There’s a clip on YouTube for your perusal in all it’s foreign profanity.

(Sorry, misspelled Teufel)

From the William Goldman script:

You’re a goddam menace, you know that, you senior cocker?

Langsamer!

Don’t you tell me ‘Take it easy,’ you kraut meathead. Don’t you tell me, ‘langsamer,’ you kraut meathead.

Langsamer!

You Limburger loving schmuck, Mach schnell.

Sie verruckt Hund. You insane dog.

Gehen Sie um Teufel.

Jude!

Dafur werden Sie Bevahlen! You will pay for this (should be “bezahlen”)

Gehen Sie zum Teufel.

You mad dog!

I was going to say “mad” works better in this context

If I’m not mistaken, zum is a contraction of “zu dem,” the dative case for “der Teufel.” (“To” requires use of the dative case.)

Thanks. A bit underwhelmed at what was actually being said. I thought it was going to be something really bad. Kinda reminds me of in “Requiem for a Heavyweight” when Mickey Rooney is so enraged at Jackie Gleason that he goes nuclear and calls him a. . . “Fink!” Or when the TV repairman tells Archie (in Yiddish), something like May you live in a house with a thousand rooms, and get a stomachache in each room. Then he tells Archie “You’ll never know [what I just said], but believe me. . . I got even!”