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- They killed my neighbor.

- Congratulations. You are now under Finland's protection.

- Do you still plead not guilty to these charges?

- Yes, sir.

- The charges are made up.

- It's not true what they say, is it? The murders and bombs?

- What the hell, Jaamala? All this space and no refugees.

- Just keep your own family safe! Your passport won't stop bullets!

- Could you share the chocolate?

- I'm good for nothing!

- If you haven't noticed, there's a war outside.

[dramatic music playing]

- No, Marco. I'd better get home. - No.

You're not going anywhere. I promised to give a tasting.

And you promised to tell me your educated opinion.

- Okay, then. - It only takes five minutes.

-I swear it's worth it.

- Cheers. - Cheers.

- Come out, you fucking communists!

- Screw you, communists! - Shut up, asshole!

- We know you Moscow cowards are there!

- Who do they think they are?

Go fuck yourselves!

- Please, Franco.

- Come out! - I'm here.

- What's wrong with you, you bastard? - Shut up.

[dramatic music playing]

- [sobs]

- Those are two of them.

- Everyone insists we release the detainees.

That's what we are doing.

Now they are free to fly.

[laughs]

[dramatic music playing]

- Thanks. - You're welcome.

- Lysa said that on your Independence Day,

you only light candles.

- Well, more or less.

- Don't you eat, drink, or dance? - No.

It's more about reflection than celebrating.

- Excuse me. - Sure.

- Pinochet wants to make this horror look like another independence.

He poses in pictures with paintings of O'Higgins.

Making the 11th of September a new national holiday. Bastard.

- Good morning, Franco. How are you?

- Alive and happy about it.

I'm sorry about last night.

- I'm worried about my family. - What?

I thought your family was safely in Argentina.

- I didn't tell you that I have a son.

He's an MIR activist and accused of terrorism, a bank robbery.

- Why didn't you tell me?

- I didn't want to get you in trouble. - He's your son.

- I heard he is in Frenz's Lutheran church.

A church is not an embassy.

I'd like to get him out before he's found.

- Could you help me? - Of course. Relax.

We'll make sure that your son is not in danger.

- Thanks.

- Excuse me.

- Thanks. - You're welcome.

[dramatic music playing]

- What?

- Seven new people came in yesterday.

Every nook and cranny is already full!

- We have to help this boy. - What about your own son?

This is no place for kids anymore!

[dramatic music playing]

- I'm sorry. I came here to rest.

The doors were open, and the house is...

- I know.

- I wanted to be alone. Sometimes I feel like

I'm a stranger among them.

- Aren't you from Antofagasta?

Have you heard any news about your parents?

Look at me.

Your parents would be proud of you, Eduardo.

All of us are proud of what you did.

We'll get you out of here.

You just need a new passport and a name.

- But what if the army will find me?

- No. Not in the GDR.

They won't follow you there.

- Okay. I'm going to... - Eduardo.

You have to improve your German.

- Excuse me. - Go ahead.

- I'll stay until I get to talk to the butcher Espinoza.

- Not today, sir

- They're not letting anyone in today. - Why not?

- They won't give us any reasons. I have papers for 54 Uruguayans,

who've got an asylum in Sweden. I need to get in.

- 54 new ones?

Do you have room for a few more? My house is already full.

- Dear friend, it's you who got the great gift.

- What gift?

- The GDR. - It's guarded like a crown jewel.

Even I struggle to get in.

- You are protecting terrorists in the Cuban embassy.

How can we be sure that they won't attack our children's schools?

- Can I respond in English? Okay?

- What's that?

- It's to silence the screams.

- Ours?

- No.

Of those who are inside.

- Fascist! Espinoza!

- Murderer! Murderer!

- Good morning, sirs.

- Football news.

The whole country is expecting the rematch between USSR and Chile.

The government's spokesman says Chile needs unity and sports joy.

- Sand is coming to inspect us again. So what?

The ministry wants to know how well we are handling GDR's affairs.

- Let's show them the papers. - What's the real reason for this?

- They want to know how the trade operations are going.

- Yes, officially. - And unofficially?

- What do you think? They're afraid this place will become

- a nest of left-wing propaganda. - It won't.

- When Sand arrives, he'll see all the refugees at your house.

- Here is the passport. - Thank you.

- Helping socialists is not the Finnish way.

We're allowed to help a few people who need immediate help.

But all those well-known people at your house...

- That's why we can't give them fake passports!

- I told you this wasn't the right way.

Do the snipers up on the roof know more than we do?

- About what goes on in this building? - We have no illegal activity here.

- And this building is all you've got?

- We've got a school too. - A school?

- We rented it. We had 70 people here, families with kids.

- Why haven't we seen it? - The school is not officially ours.

And now it's almost empty.

[dramatic music playing]

- Thanks.

I don't trust this fellow.

- We'll bring them here.

- Who? - Everyone.

- Thanks. - Careful, the floor is waxed.

- Why so little? - You already had three pieces.

Go with Tina and Tomi.

Relax and tell me what I have to buy.

- I'm following your advice, Patricia.

I'm taking care of problems.

Give me just two hours.

- I like shopping.

- Can I help you? - Thanks.

[dramatic music playing]

- Werner Buchholz.

Werner Buchholz.

- Let's go. Hurry up. - I'm coming.

- Hello. - Hi!

- Is everything ready? - As ready as can be.

- Could you give me a hand, friends?

- Sure. - Thanks.

- A lot of thirsty folk in the house.

- I'm getting ready for the big match.

Come in.

Do you like football?

[dramatic music playing]

[bus engine revving]

- Thanks.

Do you think the Soviets will come to play?

- They have to.

So we can beat them like we almost did in Moscow.

- Please come in.

- No. We have to be at our post.

- Let me offer you a beer for helping me.

[dramatic music playing]

- Thank you so much.

[dramatic music playing]

- Thanks, friends.

Quickly. Hurry up!

- Tapani, what is going on? Who are these people?

- Andreas, sorry but I had no time to warn you.

We'll use this school as a temporary asylum.

- Quickly. - Hurry up, please.

- That was everyone.

- Where shall we put this... - Maybe here.

- What the hell is going on? - I don't know. It wasn't my idea.

- It's perfect. Space for at least three families.

- There's no privacy. - Well, that's true.

Three families on that... - Sure.

[dramatic music playing]

- We'll probably get visitors soon.

- Look what a huge pot of food.

- Hello. - Hello. Enjoy your meal.

- Listen, I've been thinking...

With the sign outside, we could close the city centre consulate.

- You want to make this official? - Yes.

- That way, the refugees are safe. - The army will come after us.

Like they did with Edelstam and Cuba.

- I have a job for you in the morning. Pavez's son, Eric.

He's hiding in Helmut Frenz's church.

We need to get him safe.

- Sand arrives in the morning. - I'll handle him, you get the boy.

- I can get him a fake passport, that's all.

- A church is not an embassy.

With his background, the boy cannot get caught.

- What background?

- They accuse him of all sorts of things.

An armed robbery, a terrorist act...

- He could get a death sentence.

This is what I'm talking about. We don't protect terrorists!

- I'm sure you'll think of something.

[dramatic music playing]

- Morning.

There you go. Send him all my love.

- I will. If they let me see him.

- Take care. See you at home. - Yes.

Good morning. I'm leaving.

- Goodbye.

- It came just now.

- Damn it. This is all we need.

- He'll be here for two weeks! - Who?

- Head of Department, Sand. - He's coming for Independence Day.

- They want to catch us for misconduct.

Like the situation I just witnessed.

- Communists come here to get money. - Excuse me?

- We can't have any illegal communist activity in here.

- That was not illegal. - All communist activity is illegal!

You should be fired.

Goddamn.

[dramatic music playing]

- Hello! How was the flight?

- It was goddamn long. - I know.

- Thanks.

- About 12 meters...

- Good morning. - Good morning, sir.

- Are you changing the cables?

- We're installing telephone lines. - Okay.

I want to buy your overall.

- Are you kidding me? - No.

I need that as well.

There you go. Please.

[dramatic music playing]

[vehicle approaching]

- Can you help us, sir? Did you come to get us?

- Unfortunately not. I'm picking up a young man.

- You are Eric, right? - Yes.

- Are you ready to take a big risk?

- Go ahead.

- Put this on.

- Are you sure this is a good idea?

- It was your idea.

- How do I look? Smart enough for the opera?

- Let's go. - Good luck.

- I'll see you outside.

- Be strong.

- If I die in this car, just throw me into the river.

That's where I belong anyway.

- Are you thirsty?

- I can't drink.

- Why not? - Don't you know what a grill is?

It's a metal bed base.

They put you on it like a piece of chicken.

They throw water on you and switch you on

like a radio.

- Who told you that you can't drink?

- A soldier when I left.

He told me not to drink

because there's still electricity in my body.

- That thing about the water,

it's only a way to keep torturing you.

Drink it.

[bottle opens]

- Cheers.

[laughs]

- I'm sorry. - What an idiot.

[dramatic music playing]

- And now what?

- Now we wait.

- Let me congratulate you

for the draw in Moscow.

An outstanding match, or should I say patriotic.

My nephew and I had a big celebration.

- Thank you.

- And we were...

We were enthusiastic about Russia agreeing to a rematch.

- In the National Stadium. - As we all were.

- So why isn't it possible to have the match in Santiago?

- The Russians want to play in a neutral country.

- This is a neutral country now.

It didn't come easy.

You must understand how important this is.

Everything in Chile is working completely normally.

Do you know what normality consists of?

Work, going to Mass, pisco sour, and football.

We have all that in this country,

and the whole world should know it.

- I understand that, but it's in FIFA's hands.

There's not much we can do.

All the press outside the National Stadium...

- What does FIFA want? Let's invite them here.

We'll take them to the stadium, so they can see it by themselves.

- What about the prisoners?

- Who do you mean? The ones at the stadium?

There are fewer and fewer of them.

It's only a temporary detention centre.

- Hurry up!

- Hurry up! Let's go!

- Walk in order!

- Move it!

Move it!

- Silence!

[dramatic music playing]

- Shut up! Don't look at me! Walk!

- [sobs]

- Are the charges against you true?

- Yes, sir.

It's a war against the people,

and we have to defend ourselves with any means possible.

We don't have enterprises, banks, or newspapers.

Not even contacts in the embassies to ask for help.

- That's for the upper class. - But...

- That's for the ruling class.

- You're a son of a former civil servant.

You are not Franco Pavez's son.

Pavez is taking a huge risk for you.

Tapani would kill him if he knew.

[dramatic music playing]

- Let me see my prisoners.

- You don't own them, sir.

- Yes, I do. They are in danger in there.

- Please wait, Mr. Ambassador.

- I want to talk to Espinoza.

- He's not here.

- Show me another butcher then.

- Attention, please. Clear the entrance.

- I'm not leaving until I get the Tupamaros.

The ground I walk on is Swedish territory.

The ground I walk on is Swedish territory.

The ground I walk on is Swedish territory.

- Okay. Come in.

[camera shutter clicks]

[dramatic music playing]

- The committee is in there. - What committee?

- They are showing the stadium to FIFA.

Maybe they'll transfer the prisoners

- in order to play a game. - To where?

- What happens to the prisoners? - We don't know. Any packages?

Make sure there's nothing forbidden in them.

They check them before handing them.

- Where are you taking them?

- Rodrigo! - Where are my friends?

- How did you manage to do it?

- To do what?

- To resist it.

- I don't know. I just resisted.

Before, I wasn't especially brave or tough.

Like you.

- Like me? - Yes.

Look at what you're doing right now.

- I'm terrified.

- Me too.

But...

things change.

First you only have some ideas.

They were only thoughts that I had in here.

Then I saw the real shit.

When you have to endure the pain,

it becomes...

They are no longer thoughts.

It becomes an instinct.

- Of survival. - No. The opposite.

Of collaboration.

[dramatic music playing]

- It's time. Are you ready?

- Let's go.

What Pavez did for me, it really...

- I won't say anything. - Okay.

I can do it.

- Go, go.

[dramatic music playing]

- [sighs]

- He said... what?

- That he was walking on Swedish territory.

- And they believed that crap?

- The ambassador can be very convincing.

- No one has authorized

the release of those prisoners. No one.

- There were officers.

- You call them officers, those fools?

They shouldn't be called officers if they can be fooled like that.

54 communist terrorists were released in broad daylight just like that.

And he insulted us by calling our territory his own.

- Did FIFA witness the circus? - Of course not.

Otherwise they wouldn't have approved the match.

- That's what matters now.

Shall I call him for a meeting, so you can talk to him?

- Who? - Ambassador Edelstam.

- No.

I have a better remedy for him.

- More wine?

- No, thanks... So the schools are open?

- Some are, yes.

They're trying to get things back to normal.

- More roast? - No, thanks.

This was delicious.

- Was this Chilean? - Well..

- Something like that. A local recipe. - It was excellent.

- Glad to hear. Coffee? - Yes, please.

- I'll get it. - No, no. Sit down.

Did I understand correctly...

They came over that fence, the refugees?

- That's right. - I bet it was a surprise.

- Indeed.

Indeed.

- Good morning. - ID, please. Go ahead.

- The crisis gets worse every day. Refugees just swarmed in.

They climbed over the fences. There were no soldiers then.

We had no way of informing the GDR or Finland.

- Bloody hell.

Are they all under our protection?

- Yes.

- And you help them? - Yes, we help them here.

- Are they all coming to Finland?

- We try to send them to the GDR.

But we could follow Sweden's example, just like in trade.

- I suggest that Finland take refugees. - It's not my decision to make.

- Shall we go further? - It has been a long day.

I'll go to the hotel. Jaamala could take me to the golf course tomorrow?

- Sure.

- I'll drive you to your hotel.

[dramatic music playing]

- There we go.

- All right.

At least somebody here knows what he's doing.

- It's so quiet.

Where are the kids?

- I took them to Patricia.

- Well...

Then what?

[dramatic music playing]

- Thank you.

They say a foreigner should never have another round of pisco.

- I guess they don't know us.

That hit the spot.

I'm starting to understand why you like it here.

- You seem to enjoy a life of golf too. - Yes, yes.

The golf courses are excellent here.

What's the bigger picture?

What is Brotherus doing under our name?

- He works hard, at least. - Maybe too hard.

- Maybe he's a bit of a do-gooder.

An embassy cannot be a communist headquarters.

Finland is a neutral country.

- I know. - Good. This situation with the GDR

was not what we had in mind.

We need to focus on getting closer to the West.

- I agree. - Is there more I should know?

- Have you heard the news, sir?

- We've been having a good time ignoring the news.

- The junta declared Ambassador Edelstam as persona non grata.

Excuse me.

[dramatic music playing]

- I was just thinking...

Who is the next person

to go?

- Edelstam?

Thank you.

48 hours to leave the country.

[bell dinging]

- Ilkka. - Harald.

- Happy Independence Day, in the middle of this inferno.

I know what's in store for an old vagabond like me.

- We commemorate Finland's independence in this service.

All nations have the right

to become independent and free from external oppression.

Or what's worse, from internal oppression.

The times are hard. Important decisions are made today

by our diplomatic corps.

It requires well-bred men

to confront these horrors in the right way.

Sometimes, when it's a matter of life and death,

there's no time for diplomacy.

It's up to me to say:

in the eyes of God,

no one is a persona non grata.

- Thank you for the beautiful sermon.

- When do you leave? - Tonight.

With 20 asylum seekers.

- This hasn't happened

since Stalin expelled the Swedish ambassador from Moscow.

- Stalin was at least frank.

Here, you get a letter from the Foreign Ministry

saying that they will "expel me to protect me"

because left-wing extremists are planning to kill me.

- Do you have a minute?

[dramatic music playing]

- Quite a character, this Frenz.

- We started coming here already last year...

- Everyone chooses their own path.

Or what do you think?

- That's right. - How long are you planning to stay?

- The idea was to stay quite a while. - Yeah.

That's the idea, all right.

Harald Edelstam's agenda is not our agenda.

No more refugees.

We don't want to draw attention.

Focus on trade.

Or we'll need "protection from left-wing terrorism" as well.

And all doors will be closed to us.

- Okay.

[dramatic music playing]

- Happy Independence Day, Brotherus.

- Make sure you do everything you can in order to stay here.

- Good luck. - Thanks for everything.

[applause]

- I thought the Russians won't come. - That's why we get drunk.

- FIFA forced Chile to play alone. - Typical imperialists.

- This is ridiculous. I won't be a part of this show.

- Have a beer, minister.

- Do you think a beer can resolve it?

- Isn't your son too young to drink?

I'm sorry I couldn't help him personally.

- Mr. Jaamala did the job very well. - Absolutely.

Do you have more family here?

- No. - No.

Tapani.

[crowd cheering]

- Pavez lied to me.

- Why do they lie to us?

- The USSR cowardly refused to play the match.

Francisco "Chamaco" Valdés has an easy job to score

and to end the game...

- Are we offering too little money, or what the hell is going on?

- He's hiding in the Chinese embassy. - According to whom?

- My informant in the Air Force. - Your informant?

He should have been arrested on the same day at the same place.

- We're going to dig up Altamirano one way or another.

- A car bomb killed Altamirano. We're wasting time.

- We're not sure he was among the victims.

- I want him alive.

He's preaching and distributing his crap.

- Even if he is in disguise...

We know his habits.

- We have his ski instructor in our custody.

- His ski instructor?

Look.

I don't care where you search for him.

I don't care if he's wearing a disguise or being naked,

or if he's buried in a hole three meters under.

Or in a sewer. I don't care.

Search for clues.

[dramatic music playing]

- I don’t sing for the love of singing,

my voice doesn’t sound beautiful.

I listen to the language of the guitar,

I follow its heart, its mind.

It has a heart of earth,

and the wings of a dove.

Its chords are like holy water,

blessing my sorrow and grief.

My song has found a purpose

as Violeta would say.

Guitar hard at work,

shining and smelling of spring.

[dramatic music playing]