Original subtitles

Try to get it right - The manger's here!

I'm not going to be Jesus.

It's stuck. - Hold the ladder!

Why do I always have to play small and cute?

- With thumb in mouth, just like a baby. - You fit so well, Staffan.

Can't I get to play Herod? - Åke should do that.

I'm almost nine. I can't play a newborn.

Why should we do this corny stuff?

We do Baby Jesus and the manger every year.

Can't we do something more modern?

Not for Christmas! This will be good. It should be this story.

Is the house empty? - As empty as my wallet.

But it's just the outside that looks a little rough.

Are there any police here in the village?

Constable Olsson, lives here but...

... he goes into town every day.

Hallo! Where is the school?

We can ask them and say that we are from the National Board of Education.

Beware, kids have memories like horses!

We'll find him soon enough anyway. - Do you think so?

Yes.

When will we get our lines? - Soon.

It's not going well. We can't rehearse.

We'll make it up ourselves, it'll be more modern.

Can we borrow the gymnasium? Have you asked the janitor?

We have been training here for many years.

Did we have English homework? - It was the talk of the written examination.

Grandpa: I should not have told that story to Staffan.

He goes there and dreams... just like I myself did when I was a boy.

I don't know what got into me.

One likes to talk about old times sometimes.

See there - there's the foundry. Do you see it?

I was there at the time when the mine gave iron, copper and silver.

And gold? - Gold? Hmmm...

People say there's gold there.

But no one has found anything... except Sharp Erik, of course.

Sharp Erik? Who's that?

He lived long, long ago.

At the time, people all around here mined the rock.

No one thought it was strange that Sharp Erik went by himself.

He was one of those hermits. A recluse.

But a "nose for gold" - that he had. It tends to run in families, things like that.

My nose's not fine enough for that. Your nose is fine for the gold!

What happened? - Yes, one evening...

A black evening before Christmas, now, Sharp Erik arrived at the Gran foundry.

You may believe that the pockets fairly bulged out on him.

With gold? - Right.

Gold is not all that glitters

since the winter sun fell red

The fading of light hours

in the night they weave their glow

What happened - then what, grandpa? - Then?

Then he noticed that not only the good things follow gold.

I do not know if I dare tell you.

Tell me, Grandpa! I'm not afraid. - Don't be so sure.

If there's gold in the house, then every keyhole becomes full of greedy eyes.

It's just misery with gold.

The same evening Sharp Erik was beaten to death-

- and robbed of everything he'd found.

No one knows where he found the gold? - No.

He'd just said to his brother -

- that it was up at Horn Mine, the Crow Mountain.

No one has found anything there, the whole village was looking with picks.

No, you see, Staffan, the rock does not easily give up his gold.

People had to settle for copper and the other minerals.

But now it's the end of that too.

The mine pit is empty up there.

Blast furnaces crumbling. The forest is deserted.

People boom again and are moving to town.

Unless someone with a nose for things finds Sharp Erik's gold...

Where are we? I have no idea where we are.

Come, we'll take a run down the hill!

Look! Look, a mine!

Yes, there have been a... - It must be Horn Mine.

Don't stand and dream, or you'll fall. - Come on, let's go up and take a look!

If no one dares, I'll go by myself, then.

Here's some! - Ah...

Not in this old shack. No one has been here for 50 years.

Come...

I'm stuck! Help!

You have to help yourself.

Now I have him. - I dropped my glove!

So there, yes... Now they'll not return in a hurry.

It's good, so we can be at peace here.

Lord Geez... - Where is Staffan ?!

He's still up in the mine?

But I have to be home before four.

He's gone to dream somewhere. He can get home by himself.

Do you really intend to leave him at the mine?

Such cowards, eh!

Cowards - What are you talking about?

Ake, you can at least come up with me?

Do you believe in ghosts, huh?

If I'm not home before four, I get no food.

Did you hear? There was something here!

What is that?

Oh, there he is!

Staffan! - Hello.

Where have you been?

It's dangerous for small fry to mess around in the woods! You ought to get a spanking.

Come, we go.

We could have fallen into the pits and died...

Don't say that.

That's the last time we will take you out on a long distance.

Don't say that we were at the mine! And nothing of the open pit.

Don't say that you got lost.

Do you know what I found?

Gold!

Gold is not all that glitters

since the winter sun fell red

The fading of light hours

Sheep in the night weave their glow...

Subtitle: Lisbet Olofsdotter-Arvidsson Translation: Alyosha777