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Inga (Spoilers)

posted 12 years ago by dean-griffiths
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I've seen this film at least a dozen times and it seems pretty clear that Inga is in some way part of the Nazi gang and quite possibly Oktober's girlfriend. She's a Femme Fatale who appears to lie and deceive Quiller from start to Finish.

However it dosen't matter how many times I see this film I find myself wanting to be wrong and I want to think that there was something genuine about Inga.

Is there anyone out there who thinks that Inga may have had genuine feelings for Quiller by the end of the film ?

[–] bccct 11 years ago

Before he went to check out the house, she told him she loved him, which she didn't have to do. So maybe she did like him.

[–] robfwoods 11 years ago

Nazis probably liked some people too.

[–] hoov-4 11 years ago

Well, she followed the teacher who was outed as a Nazi. So, I'd say she was in on it too. But,I think she came to strongly like Quiller. Not sure if she was the girlfriend, but I believe she was a part of this gang. I've seen this movie so many times, I'm not sure what to think. I give it a 10 though. During the 60's, there was a proliferation of neo-nazis. This was the height of the Cold War. As economic conditions improved, eventually the movement died out.

[–] tpodor-1 10 years ago

Just watched it again and I'm convinced that Inga was in on it with the Nazi gang along with the school head-mistress and it's pool fellow. it was too obvious by the looks that were given by Quiller to everyone at the end of the movie there. I think that they were trying to establish a neo-Nazi school to train the young children like the programs the Nazis ran for young boys and girls in pre-war Germany...?

[–] ImInAnalog 9 years ago

Agree one hundred percent.

More then a couple times Quiller and his team mention the methodical way in which the neo-nazis are working.

Inge also makes it a point to mention how she wants her students to view Europe and the World. In a way she was throwing him off the scent.

Also they mention several times how the neo-nazis aren't in uniforms anymore. "No more brown shirts." At the end of the film look at what Inga is wearing. Brown on brown. And the long shot of Quiller walking away from the school. The kids are seemingly walking in line, if you notice they are all in step, loosely marching.

[–] jameselliot-1 9 years ago

It's never explained how she got away from the house and she never tells him. An innocent person wouldn't behave like that. I thought Inge was part of the Neo-Nazi set-up but Quiller likes this reserved, proper woman too much to turn her over to his boss at the end for an investigation that would reveal her duplicity. He was looking for more. I felt she lied when she said she loved him. There was no real reason for her to fall for him and to say that to him. There was nothing romantic or sexual in their interaction. She gave no sign of a woman in love or crushing on a guy. And from the start, Quiller speaks to her like a perv pick-up artist and gives off creep vibes with his staring and oddball manner.

At the end, she may have felt gratitude because he didn't have her arrested. She played him well and came out unscathed.

[–] filmklassik 8 years ago

I strongly disagree with your take on Segal's manner with Senta Berger and with her true feelings toward him. Sure, he dug her, but in no way was he "perving" on her (Whatever that means in this context. Does it mean he wanted to sleep with her? What straight guy wouldn't??)

And I think her attraction to him was genuine, but she was still willing to sacrifice him for the good of "the cause."

And I think he was already half in love with her when he discovered who she was. Which is why his heartbreak in the final scene is so moving.