All language subtitles for Korparna

MARCH 1978

Hello?

Hello?

What the hell was she doing
down here?

Maybe she got out
of her own accord.

Not likely!

People are capable of anything.

There's no room.

Alvar said some farms
are clubbing together for a potato planter.

- Did they ask you?
- No.

And if they ask it's no.

Alvar said it saves more time
than you think.

What does he know?
He's sold it all off.

Well...

That's the spring sowing
almost done.

Tomorrow I'll put in the last barley
over on the leasehold.

Couldn't we take a few days off
when it's done?

Have a break from everything.

A trip to the sea?

Time off? There's more than enough to do
around here, in case you're worried.

We're never finished here.

Thought I saw you this morning.

I was down among the reeds.
I heard the great bittern.

The great bittern?

Not bad.

It lives right in the middle of the reeds,
like an old hermit.

Do you know about that?

There's room for a few birds
in this old head.

Is that decided, then -
you'll join me tomorrow morning?

You'll learn how to do the sowing.

I can't. I have homework.

I thought you might enjoy
coming outwith me once in a while.

Well, I can't just sit around here all day!

That was nice.

- I'll help you with that.
- Please, you stay here.

Feels like...

like the warm weather will hold.

Days are getting longer.

You get a lot done before twilight.

- Twilight?
- Yes.

'Which twilight are you talking about?

Well...

twilight.

Do you mean civil twilight?

When the sun is 6 degrees
below the horizon.

Or nautical twilight -
12 degrees below the horizon?

Or maybe you mean astronomical twilight
- 18 degrees below the horizon.

Isn't it dark by then?

Dark?

No.

You can still see where the sun set.

Well, in that case I guess I meant...

the first one.

Then you have to ask yourself:
What is the horizon?

Is there more than one?

The horizon.

Is it an ocean?

Is it a mountain?

Is it a forest?

- Don't you want to go home either?
- 'Why wouldn't I want to?

- I was just thinking...
- Thinking!

Too much thinking's bad for you.

Bet you don't know
what a real cunt looks like.

It's not like in the books at school.

I heard there's a Stockholm girl
coming here.

We'll soon cut her down to size.

We need to check over the fences.
I can't do it by myself.

Ever tried standing in a doorway

and pressing your arms
against the doorposts?

Your arms rise by themselves
when you walk away.

Rather...

funny, really.

You push as hard as you can
and count to forty-nine.

Then...they go up over your head.

If you bring them down
they go back up again.

It's like an invisible force.

- I've never tried it.
- No?

It's never too late.
And as funny every time.

It might be just you left in the end.

Thanks.

Father sends his regards.

He's always liked you
as leaseholders.

He's getting on now.

He's not always aware
of the world around him.

We're heading for a brighter future
with modern business methods.

This is Carsten, the new supervisor.

He's to bring some stability
to the manor farm.

We have plans for the future

that'll be profitable for both big and small
land owners, including you, Agne.

Please - help yourselves.

You've got some woodland
adjoining the farm.

If the properties merged, operations
could be made more efficient.

So that's why you're here.

The land is well suited
for new plantation.

Not a lot of rocks.

Not a lot of rocks!

'What's so funny?

I don't think you understand.

We're a profit-making business.

Your farm isn't run very efficiently.

My son... My oldest son
will be taking over.

He'll decide.

I think he's got big plans for the farm.

If a leasehold isn't well managed
or doesn't meet our requirements,

it could be terminated.
Do you realise that?

There's beauty all around

Now summertime is coming

When grass and grain abound

Rejuvenating sunlight

Awakes a world once dead

The rays of sun approach us

And everything's reborn

Think you've got summer holidays now?

Guess what this is.

Don't you want to?

It's for you, Klas.

I thought you might like it.

As a souvenir.

See you by the barn
when you've eaten.

You do understand
that I need your help now?

The hay needs to be gathered
before the storm comes.

See that stone wall over there?

Klas?

Your great grandfather built it.

He was always at it
and still he never finished.

Year in year out.

- Sheer bloody slavery it was.
- What do you want us to do about it?

Fly up to Heaven and thank him?
Do you even remember him that well?

You'd only just started school
when he drowned himself.

You think I imagined that as well?

You don't know what it's like for me.
You never did.

There's thunder in the air.

- Maybe some rain would clear the air.
- And ruin the hay?

- That's what you're wishing for, isn't it?
- Enough!

- Enough of that talk.
- Really?

To show what happens
when we call each other,

I start by dialing a number.

The telephone needs to be powered
by a low-voltage current.

When I dial the digits on the rotary dial,
short pulses are generated.

Let's both of us go.
It'll give us something else to think about.

Down the telephone lines
to the telephone exchange.

The telephone exchange connects
thousands of calls simultaneously.

The electrical current
sends the ringing signal down the line

to the telephone whose number
I'm dialing.

That telephone could be
in another city

or even in a different country.

I know her very well
Better than any other man

I know her very well
I know just how precious she is

So put your tie straight
And I'll get you up to date

On what she will be like
Always in your life

She's great

She is really a catch

That girl is a catch

That girl is a catch

If anyone knows what she's like
I'm the one

That girl is a catch

She is really a catch

So hold her tight every hour
And every day

I know her really well
I know exactly what she wants

I know her really well
I know just how precious she is

So put your tie straight
And I'll get you up to date

On what she will be like
Always in your life

That girl is a catch

Lightning?

How the hell could lightning do it?

MOBILE LIBRARY

- Can I listen to these?
- Of course you can.

- Just write your name here.
- Here?

Just let me know
if you need any help.

What?

Are you the girl from Stockholm?

How did you know?

Not many people around here.
Maybe a hundred in the whole village.

Things haven't changed here, I see.

Have you thought about my offer?

Bloody fool!

10,000 bales to get in, this year.

In this heat.

Hear that?

Are we going to work nights as well?

Have you ever seen
a sow eat her piglets?

It's no laughing matter.

It was as if the Devil had got into her.

Blood everywhere and the cartilage
crunching in her jaws.

Never seen the like.

Sell the place if it's so fucking difficult.

It's all going to pot anyway.

Everyone knows...

Just shut up!

You're doing the potatoes
with me tomorrow.

That's all there is to it.

Its legs are so long
that it looks like ifs walking on stilts...

there on the savannah
as it picks up small titbits.

Bigger prey,

like hares or rats...

it stamps to death.

It's no stranger to...

attacking cobras
and other venomous snakes.

It's in no way immune to them,

so it does it with its life at stake.

And then - like a bullfighter-

it raises its plumage

and begins to dance.

The snake strikes at the feathers,
tiring itself out, and then...

Then the bird kills the snake

by stamping on it
and stabbing it.

Over and over it stabs it in the neck
with its sharp beak.

It's a marvelous bird.

Are you staying here all summer?

We'll be going to Gland soon,

and then to the Riviera.
We know someone with a house there.

We usually stay a few weeks
in each place.

'What about your family?

We've got to get the hay in.
It usually takes a few weeks.

Klas?

Please...can you open the door?

Are you in there, Klas?

Klas?

Everything's...going against me.

I can't take much more, Klas.

Forty years.

'What do I have to show for it?

Soon it'll be your turn. Soon!

I've prepared food for you,
lunch and dinner.

Rissoles with potatoes and gravy.
Beef casserole.

All my favourites.

You've got a good mother, boys.

Remember that.

We'll manage, won't we, Klas?
You and me...

won our own for a few days.

I thought Klas could come with us.

We've promised him
so many times.

Do you know what Granddad said
a boy should do to catch a girl?

He should pick lime tree seeds
and sprinkle in from of her door.

If he was successful, she'd get up
and go to him in her sleep.

It meant they'd be happily married...

Did Dad bring seeds to you?

He's not very superstitious.

Agne?

Mm!

He never really wanted this, you know.

I know he went to Uppsala
on the bus.

He wanted to study.

Meteorology.

It's brave to go away,
but braver still to come back.

And that's what Agne did.

He did his bit when the family needed it.
And went on doing it. Understand?

You're dear to him, you know.

Yes.

Hello, Klas.

Is Veronika at home?

The idea was that she and her mother
would move here...

Things don't always work out
the way you imagined it, Klas.

Klasa!

Klasa!

Got a new dad?

Must be nice for you and your mum.
Mostly for your mum, I guess.

I've got something here...

that might interest you.

A small one for the big one.

And a big one for the little one.

Not bad.

Such lovely Christmas presents.

Made of juniper wood.

They'll last you a lifetime.

Let's hope you'll never need them,

but should an accident happen
they could save your life.

LIFE JACKET

This one...

- is for all of you.
- Well, thank you.

That's nice.

'What is it?

It wakes you up if there's a fire
and you're asleep.

I thought I'd put it up straight away.

Disaster strikes
when you least expect it.

Well, I'll warm up the food
so we can get some dinner.

Tell Daddy how well
you've done in school.

Come on, come on.

Stop!

Go!

Maybe we should extend.

Move that wall back ten yards
and put in new stalls.

A new machinery shed.
And an automatic combine harvester.

We'll have beestings pancakes tomorrow.

- You like them, don't you?
- Yes.

I've got something here
you ought to be interested in.

If there's room for anything but birds
in that head of yours, that is.

Most of them are from around here.

You're in a few of them yourself.

Towards the end.

That's Granddad. My grandfather.

I'm named after him.

You don't look all that like him.

Twelve children.

Their mother died
giving birth to the youngest.

It wasn't any easier back then.

You're named after his father.
He was called Klas.

I'm about your age in that one.

And that...

That's the last picture of...Father.

I'll never forget
when they came to get him.

He grabbed the headboard
and they pulled the whole bed with him.

He wanted to die at home.

A thing or two for you to look at.

A bit more?

Yes, please.

Have you told your dad?

No.

Tell him.

Klas has got work
at the bird observatory.

Well, I think it's nice at least.

JANUARY 1979

RAVENS