"THE INTERROGATION" "Finland is at war." "The Soviet Union is dropping spies into Finnish territory." "Most of them are immediately caught." "If they have no military insignia, they are sentenced and executed." "In the streets of the capital, there are no signs of war." "September 1942" "What are you doing here at this hour?" " Something's happened." "Get in here, both of you." "And don't slam the door." "I received this." "A summons." "From the police." " They know." "I can't go home, " "I can't go to work." "Soon, they'll be there." "Maybe they only want you for work assignment." "They've begun calling in available people, to the farms." "It's a trap." "I've been warned, something's not right." "Being careful is good, but you shouldn't panic." "The police want to question me." "Isn't that bad enough?" "I'm not saying that." "You may be right." "Could I stay here?" "Only for a few days, a week, just to get organized." "Of course you can, but if they're after you, should you stay in Helsinki?" "I wouldn't stay." " Better to be on the move, from town to town." "All over the country, that's what the others do." " It's easier that way." "If anyone asks anything, tell them you don't know, you're a evacuee." "And a war widow." "My husband died on the Isthmus." "I can show a picture if someone's suspicious." "Somebody knows." "Otherwise, the police couldn't have found me." "Who suspects me?" "Maybe you'd better leave Helsinki." "I would, Mirjam, but it's impossible." "Money or ration cards are no problem." "Use your old papers until I can get you some new ones." "Take the furlough trains in the evenings, they're safe." "No, my orders are to remain in Helsinki." "Let's all quieten down and calm down." "I'm sorry for coming at this hour." "Don't worry." "It will be alright." "I'll get a new identity, a new look and I'll move." "I need to get the radio from the cleaner's." " From where?" "What?" " I left the bag at the cleaner's." "What are you saying?" "I packed my things and didn't want to carry the thing around." "I put it in the bag and and left it there as a laundry bag." "This can not be true." " I'm sorry." "You must get it at once." "Goddamn it." "I'll get it the moment they open." "Hello." " Hello." "I'm here to collect Mrs Hämäläinen's laundry." "What's your name?" " Elina Kettunen." "Kettunen..." "Do you have a receipt?" "They said you didn't give any." "She took the morning train." "She went to the military hospital in Hämeenlinna." " Your address?" "What do you need it for?" "I only want the laundry." "The laundry in that bag." "This one?" " Yes, if the laundry's not done, I'll pick it up later." "Mrs Hämäläinen asked me to the send the bag to Hämeenlinna." "Are you sure it's her bag?" " What are you on about?" "The bag with the leather straps." "I've got the key." "You are under arrest." "Twelve hair pins." "Glasses, with a cracked lens." "Not caused by us." "Two lipsticks." "Take off your gloves!" "A ring with a swastika, Finnish." "1624 marks in cash." "A photo, a Finnish soldier." "A government ration card, class one." "An identity card with a certificate of baptism in it." "Issued on May 6, 1914 in Stockholm." "A pedicure set, for the feet." " In that case." "Note all this. at 16.20 hours." "In fidem Detective Hyvönen, verified by Mrs Grahn, Clerk." "My name is Elina Sigrid Hämäläinen, - born on May 6, 1914, in Stockholm." "I'm afraid you're deviating from the truth." "You were someone else, but continue." "I was joking." " Joking?" "My address in Helsinki is Vuorimiehenkatu 19 A 11." "I work at Salon Paris, Aleksanterinkatu 13." "Noted according to the person questioned." "Do you know why you're here?" "Hands out of your pockets." "I don't think you realize the difficulties you're in." "It's a mistake, a misunderstanding." "No, it's neither a mistake nor a misunderstanding." "For us, you're a criminal." "Of the worst kind." "I don't know what you're talking about, or about whom." "I have a tough day tomorrow." "I want to go home." "My working clothes need ironing." "You'd better confess." "Completely and truthfully." "You're only making it worse, understand?" "I'm trying." "I'll tell everything the way you like." "I'm Elina Hämäläinen, a war widow." "I have a picture of my husband." "Do you know the martial laws of the land?" "No." "Someone working for an alien nation is a spy." "The law only has one provision for spies." "It happens at dawn, usually in the forest at Malmi." "You've really got yourself in a spot." "Hands out of your pockets!" "I've taken many a spy to face the rifle barrels, - led them by the hand, actually." "It's not a nice thing to see." "Or hear." "If you cooperate, you may save yourself." "Understood?" "Let's begin." "Give me the names of all your contacts." "Who have you been in contact with in Helsinki?" " I don't know anybody." "I'm a widow and I have no children." "I do know a few people at work." "Mrs Grönroos is my employer." "Then of course there's my landlady Mrs Makkonen." "I seldom go out." "Are you joking?" " No." "Or are you really that stupid? Do you understand what I'm saying?" "Think hard about the spot you've put yourself in." "Think as if your life depended on it, literally." "The interrogation is over and will continue when you want to talk." "Her photo ought to be taken." " What?" "Haven't they taken her picture yet?" "Off you go then, but leave the wig and wash your face." "Her own mother wouldn't recognize her like that." "It's come to our knowledge that the papers issued by the Vaasa Police, - that is number 146/41, do not belong to Elina Hämäläinen, " "but a certain Leo Oskar Strömsund, - who's serving as sergeant in JR 13." "The ration cards that were issued to Elina Hämäläinen - and were later confiscated have proved to be forgeries." "Moreover, the birth certificate from Stockholm wasn't issued in Sweden." "It might be Russian paper." "Verified by signature by Vera Grahn, Clerk." "Who are you?" "Sit down." "Hands on the table." "If you speak Finnish, why don't you understand it?" " I do understand it." "No." "Both hands on the table!" "Do you know what you've done according our martial laws?" "Why is it so cold?" "I'm freezing." " Answer the question." "I forged the papers." "That was bad of me, I apologize." "But my papers were burned in the Vyborg bombings." " Dear God." "I'm glad they didn't hit you." "Who are you?" "Elina Hämäläinen, address Vuori- miehenkatu 19..." " A 11, I know." "We've searched your apartment." "You are not Elina Hämäläinen, you're a spy." "For now, we don't know your name." "My husband was killed on the Isthmus." "Late in the Winter War." "You are lying." "You're repeating yourself and lying." "Should we start punishing you for that?" "Do you even know where you are?" " Who cares?" "In Okhrana's caves." "So, there we have it!" "Are we unfurling the Red Flag?" "Listen, Mrs or Miss, whatever you are, - do you now why I'm interrogating you?" "No?" "Do you even know what kind of a man I am?" "You are an investigator, some sort of police." "Some sort." "Indeed." "Who are you?" "Elina Sigrid Hämäläinen, war widow." " No!" "Toivo Kesälahti was my husband, killed on the Isthmus." " No." "During the last week of the Winter War." " No." "Not during the Winter War." "You are lying." "You're not from Vaasa." "Not even from Vyborg." "You're not a widow." "At least not a war widow." "You're not who you say you are." "To your landlady, you're a Mrs, at work practice, you were a Miss." "After a few phone calls, we've learned - that your marital status oddly varies." "In conclusion we state that you're a war widow Miss - whose non-existent children are in care of non-existent grandparents." "Somewhat conflicting, isn't it?" "Who are you?" "The truth, please, finally." "Elina Sigrid Hämäläinen, address..." " A parrot is what you are!" "A report on the devices the person in custody had." "Enclosed the device and a memo." " Let's take it easy, Lieutenant." "The autumn evening is beautiful and the war is far away." "So, this kind of contraption." "A radio that both receives and transmits." "The Morse key and the antenna were separate." "It is a two tube crystal set." "Thank you, but don't waste technical wisdom on a humanist." "In other words, a spy radio." " Yes." "The set is made in Russia, - also the wadding is Russian paper wad." "But the tubes and the finer technique are made in the goddamn USA." "You get everything from there, even lamps for a spy radio." "Then they send the poor girl to work for the great Fatherland." "Elina Hämäläinen." "A pity." "A pretty woman with a pretty name." "How did you enter the country?" "There's a buzz from the east, right?" "I don't think I'm wrong if I guess that you flew low - and had more than snacks in you backpack." "Maybe a parachute." "Say something." "Try lying, for instance." "Or you'll sit here until tomorrow night." "Speak!" "It can't be that hard to admit that you are from Russia." "I've given you my name and my address." "I won't tell you anything more, because there's nothing to tell." "Someone's used my laundry bag, I don't know." "You figure it out, it's your job." "Let me go back to my cell." "I haven't slept in two days now." "I must have some primitive rights as a human being." "You'll sleep in two weeks, if that's what it takes." "Or even worse, you'll sleep under a rock if you don't confess!" "What do you want me to confess?" "I can't confess to anything based on your allegations." "They are paranoid, false accusations." "We're not the ones to accuse, we may suspect, - but we're investigating." " You're tormenting the wrong person!" "In this room, I'm the one who raises his voice!" "As you wish." "I'll confess to my error." " That's the way to go." "I will tell you what I've left unsaid." "It was wrong to buy a false ID." "And to buy it from such criminals." "Forgers." "But my old ID was burned then they bombed Vyborg." "And the ration cards, you know what it's like." "You can't get any without an ID, and I didn't have one." "My references, my birth certificate were left behind the old border." "And then Toivo died." "I was so lonely." "As a married woman, I couldn't find company of my own age, " "so I've played a Miss, too." "But I regret what I've done." "I apologize, it was very inappropriate." "They should've put you on stage, not sent you to Finland to spy." "You do realize that you were caught in the city, - with a radio transmitter belonging to our enemy at war?" "You'll probably say you used the radio transmitter - to listen to radio revues and children's programs." "You're not even listening to my confession." " I've had enough." "Let's stop." "Is everything noted?" "Every word, but they're hardly of any use." "Exactly." "Take her away." "We're not getting anywhere, it's pointless." "She's dragging it on and lying, saying she's Elina Sigrid Hämäläinen." "And we're wasting paper." "Good thing she's pretty, at least." " That'll heal your wounds." "It's not enough to heal them." "Keep on trying, though, nice and easy." "No, I've done all I can." "Call Suominen." "Good morning." "I'm Toivo Suominen, Captain." "In real life, I'm a policeman." "But let's get acquainted." "I've looked at your papers." "You really are in a tight spot." "But we'll sort it out." "That's what we do here." "Everything will sort itself out, sooner or later." "Yes, assuming you speak openly and truthfully." "And you." "Excuse me?" "That you also tell the truth." "Or is it only my obligation?" "Mrs Hämäläinen, you must be aware of your situation." "You are being interrogated as a suspect of a serious crime." "Sit down." "And because of that, I'm not entitled to the truth?" "Or honesty towards the one interrogated?" "To be honest, you're something of a trickster." "I think you're tricking me now, too." "Let's make a note of it." "The person interrogated is a person - whose false ID bears the name Elina Sigrid Hämäläinen." "The interrogation is conducted at the HQ Surveillance Division." "The interrogation commenced on September 18, 1942, - at 08.30 hours." "Interrogator Capt. Suominen, witness Mrs Grahn." "Let us begin." "Tell me how you entered Finland." "How one enters Finland." "It isn't difficult." "You know that." "What's the difference, when I'm sitting here?" "Listen, Madam, - this isn't a quiz at a sewing circle." "All arrogant impudence will only do you harm." "Can this get any worse?" "I've been threatened with execution." "For something I don't understand." "Someone's used my laundry bag for something I know nothing of." "Find that person, Captain, the right person." "Stop harassing me with something I'm innocent of." "You are not innocent, we both know that." "You know it, we know it." "I'm getting tired of repeating obvious truths." "Captain, Sir, where is the evidence?" "Where?" "Nowhere." "You're misleading me and abusing your power as an authority." "You and your superiors have exceeded your powers." "I demand to be released and I will report you to the Procurator." "Now he's called the Parliamentary Ombudsman, not the Procurator." "Not in twenty years." "Do you see - that the Soviet trainers' intelligence is painfully old?" "What do you want to know?" "Are you going to note that I landed here in a Zeppelin?" "Like they say Mannerheim did during the revolt." "Or maybe I took a cab to The Imatra Hotel?" "You can even swim here." "Let's start from the beginning, right?" "We haven't got anywhere in your case." "I'm not the one asking the questions, you are." "I can stop asking and simply state the facts." "We know who you are." " You should, shouldn't you?" "I've given my name, my address, my marital status, everything." "I even confessed to a petty crime." "You are a Soviet citizen." " Oh, you are clever." "My nationality changed." "With the help from a century-old invention." "Your photo was identified." "In Petrozavodsk." "To err is human." "They erred there, you err here." "Does the date 10.11.1912 ring a bell?" "It's bygones." " It is your birthday." "How about the USA and Astoria, Oregon?" " That's a leap." "You were born there." "You moved to New York - and then with your father to Soviet Karelia, - which I'm sure you recall, you were twelve then." "And your name." "I'd wager that it's not Elina, nor Kettunen." "Not even Hämäläinen." "Your name is Kerttu Nuorteva." "A pretty good guess." " Not a guess." "Investigated and proven." "Alright." "You know my name." "Not even torture will give you more." " Why would that be necessary?" "International customs, so to speak." "I won't be telling you anything that would endanger my comrades." "I can tell you different stories." "Hundreds, with variations." "You already know that, it's part of a spy's professional talent." "Yes, and another part of a spy's talent is to mislead." "You have that talent, with all due respect." " Thank you." "I must also admire your patience." "Don't you people here at Okhrana use the good old methods?" "Shouldn't you assault me?" "Beat the soles of my feet." "Electric shocks." "Sexual violation." "Hunger." "Darkness." "Thirst." "It's an effective method." "Just like cold and threats to one's life." "What would your soul prefer, Captain?" "You're allowing me a soul." "Very liberal, considering your materialistic ideology." "Thank you." "You're welcome, comrade." " I gather you don't think highly of my soul." "Don't give up hope." " Torture is only found in your Soviet-era memories." "The interrogator has many methods, including violence." "I'm sure it's been used here, but it's not wise, albeit effective." "Go ahead, get on with it." "I'm afraid that intelligence received through violence is secondary." "Hence, I don't use any brutal methods, - nor do I recommend them to others." "This is why you, Mrs Hämäläinen, - or Nuorteva, were lucky to end up here." "We are enemies, but we're also human beings." "I hope." "That is why I'm also asking you to cooperate." "How charmingly naive you are, Captain." "May I applaud?" " Be my guest." "If that'll make you feel like a good Komsomolite." "Quite the contrary, I feel like Kerttu Nuorteva again." "I got tired of being Elina Sigrid Hämäläinen." "She was quite the little slut and a cry-baby, wasn't she?" "You weren't exactly charmed." "Or were you merely tired?" "Maybe I was, yes." "But it's bad for you, this Kerttu Nuorteva case, " "in light of your sentence, - but you can help yourself." "With a full confession, I know." "You are good man, Captain." "Straight to the point." "But you're straight as an arrow - with a one-track mind " "with all your touching questions." "I pity you." "Let's check our information." "Your father Santeri Nuorteva was a journalist from Tampere - who had to flee to the USA in 1910 after high treason against the czar." "You were born in Oregon, but you moved to New York in 1912 - and from there to the Soviet Union and Petrozavodsk, - now known as Äänislinna." "Tell me who betrayed me." " You became a journalist in Leningrad." "You were writing for the famous daily Iskra.." "Since 1934, you've been working for the Soviet Intelligence Agency." "Two marriages and one son." "Your father became a leading figure in Soviet Karelia." "Who told you all this?" " Like all leaders in Soviet Karelia, - he was arrested before the Winter War and hanged by Stalin's orders." "False information." " Or executed." "Father died of natural causes." " With thousands of Finnish socialists." "He died of brain fever." "What thousands of Finnish socialists?" "Who gave my information to Okhrana?" " We have our sources." "I want to know who." "I won't tell you any more pending the investigation." "We're done." "Why do you think you know how things are in the Soviet Land?" "A young state can't be born painlessly, it takes sacrifices." "I understand." "Everybody must make sacrifices." "Even me." "I respect your beliefs, but I can't abide with dictatorships." "Dictatorships?" "What's that on your sleeve?" "The S of the Civil Guard." "The Germans have the same letter, only twice." "Don't talk about dictators." "As a half-henchman you support Hitler." "To be noted." "The person interrogated gives the name Kerttu Nuorteva." "She's a Soviet... - ... citizen." "As I said, she won't be telling anything about her actions." "Our sources say you were sent to prison in the Soviet Union in 1938." "Accidents will happen." "Sent to a prison camp in Kazakhstan, released three years ago." "How can you sit there, proclaiming you're a Soviet spy?" "It's useless." "A hard case, exactly." "HQ still wants to continue interrogating Kerttu Nuorteva." "She won't say a word." "Let's keep trying." "For her sake." "If she has to stand before a court, the outcome is obvious." "Certain death." " She's prepared." "She says she'll die for her ideology." "With pride." "The alternative is to die carrying the shame of a traitor." "After a full confession has been forced out of her." "I see, I see." "We will get the intelligence, one way or another." "She knows all about Soviet spies' tactics in Finland." "She might know all kinds of things." " Which she will not reveal." "We'll change methods." "There are other ways." "They're not nice to see or hear." "Torture victims are unreliable." "She's an enemy, like any foe in war." " That's exactly why." "She has no choice." "Wouldn't it be more humane to try to solve it now?" "We're not judges, let alone priests." "We're interrogators." "Yes, we've done all we could." "Let the courts take over." "She'll meet her death with honor, and die for her beliefs." "Your sudden attacks of softness are beginning to affect your obedience." "If you won't continue, I will." "I'll conduct the interrogations until I get a full confession." "Are you a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?" " No." "The Communist Party of Finland?" " No." "You're hardly a hardened right-winger?" "And I'll never be one." "Especially when looking at you." "I'm a Soviet citizen and I've been a member of Komsomol." "What's it to you?" "I'm not asking why you only have one bar on your uniform, Ensign." "Suominen has three and is a Captain." "Have you even been at the front?" "Mrs Nuorteva, you're being interrogated, not me." "Doesn't it bother you, that the collar shows what kind of a man you are?" "You should get more bars - and stop wasting time on these useless interrogations." "To be noted." "The prisoner hasn't been a member of the Soviet Communist Party." "Nor of the Communist Party of Finland." "But she's been a member of the youth organization Komsomol." "Also in the Women's Section of the Red Karelian Brigade, - and the Women's Section of the Free Karelian Comrades." "There she keenly ran its program committee." "My pioneer's cap was of size 57." "Thank you." "Can I go back to my cell?" "February 1943" "Are you serious?" "You want me to read these works?" " I thought you'd be happy." "I've noticed during these past weeks that you really appreciate literature." ""In Defense of Finnish Democracy"." "Not a central book within Socialist Realism." ""President Ryti's Speeches"." "Nor is this one of my literary favorites." "Are you joking?" " Absolutely not." "Material to build our conversations on." "You asked me to hand in a list of literature." "In it there was Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches." "It's of no political danger." "Can't I have The Captain's Daughter by Pushkin?" "Or Kuprin's The Duel?" "You owe me an explanation." "I want you to read the books I brought." "Then we'll begin." "Come in." "Totally boring literature, not a hint of style." "Chosen due to the issues." "Castrén and Snellman need new translations." "How about the Finnish nation-state's justification within the realm of law?" "Stalin's new constitution of '36." "It has everything people need." "In theory, I'm sure." " It's the most enlightened among the constitutions." "What society is like when the laws are enforced, shows their worth." "You are a petty contra revolutionary." "That's what you are, Kastari." " Yes, defined by a Bolshevik saint." "Chauvinistic-religious rhetoric doesn't flatter me." "Take something else." "The principle of justness." "Even if you read Stalin's constitution through your humanist glasses, - you must notice that the people of the future Socialist Finland - are guaranteed absolute judicial security." "Just as it is guaranteed to Soviet citizens." "Why would Finns surrender their national right of self-determination?" "Didn't Stalin's Winter War give Bolsheviks an image - of the goals of Finnish democracy?" "You're intentionally mixing things." "You know what I think." "The Winter War was a political mistake by the Party and Stalin." "What a surprise that you should think so." "I've been forced to think about that unfortunate war." "At times." "Sometimes." "Still, it's no moral victory for you, comrade Kastari, far from it." "I and millions of others, - we think everything will be different." "Not different, but better." "It takes sacrifices." "Even suffering." "Endurance." "Every new morning, a first step towards global Communism - gets more power, every day." "Every day, the sun is one day closer to its final collapse." "Fortunately, this is also true for the Bolshevik's Father Sun." "What cynicism." "Let's leave politics and tum to literature." "Is there anything Finnish I could bring you?" "I thought I was a prisoner, - but I'm a member of Okhrana's reading circle." "Why are you interested in my literary taste?" "I want to know how you feel." "About being Finnish." "You're a Finn by blood." "You come from a cultural family that partly lives on literature." "It is hard in an era when your brothers in arms are burning books." "More than books are being burned now." "Unfortunately." " Exactly." "You said your father's Finnish library was extensive - and very much up to date with recent trends." "I assume you also have ambitions like that." "I may gravely have over-estimated your interest in Finnish literature." "Oh my, I won't pass my literary courses in Dr. Kastari's Academy." "Maybe I should get you some women's magazines." "Maybe something with home decorating." " Alright." "Do you have Eino Leino?" "Or something by Vaaskivi or Siljo?" "Even if Siljo was a white butcher." "You've obviously studied the art of corruption." "Isn't this the way east of the border?" "On our side, that is." "This is absolutely Byzantine." "It's not corruption, not even clever police work." "I want to ask you an important question, Mrs Nuorteva." "Have you been promoted?" "No." "The situation on the eastern front is only a cause for celebration for me." "We might drink to the total defeat of the German 6th Army in Stalingrad." "For you, it's the beginning of the end." " The end of the beginning." "To peace." "I'll drink to that." "Mrs Nuorteva, may I make a suggestion?" "But don't propose to me." "You have a fiancé, Ensign, and I have a ten-year-old son." "Please, don't call me Ensign." "My name is Paavo." ""Paavo only sows half a bushel, half he gives to his neighbor."" "In kulak-Paavo from Saarijärvi there resides a little socialist, right?" "I'm only joking." "I'm sorry for teasing you." "I want to ask you to do something." "It's also a question." "Go ahead." "Maybe a few words before I ask." "I'm no soldier, I'm a humanist." "One who often has been the target of your arrows, at times rightly so." "I'm a peaceful man." "This war simply doesn't suit me." "Hence, the one bar that you noticed." "It's the lowest rank of officer, which is fine by me." "I'm a pretty good lawyer, or so I'm told." "I think so, too." "That's why I may be able to help you." "But I need your help first." "Was that the question?" " No." "The question is:" "Would you like to leave the country?" "There are two alternatives:" "Sweden or Australia." "You are insane, Ensign." " Paavo." "Whatever." "What are you talking about?" "To Sweden?" "Or to Australia?" "No, this time you've gone too far." "You're trying to put a noose around my neck, Sir, or Paavo, whatever." "Don't you know Stockholm is the Soviet Union's European spy center?" "You can't run away from the Soviets." "Remember Trotsky." "He ran to Mexico and was murdered there." "With an ice pick, by the NKVD." "You'll get a new identity." "I suggest Australia, you know the language." "Passport and funds aren't an issue, it's been taken care of." "You can leave the moment it is safe to travel." "And once you've told us all you know about the Soviet spy training." "You may consider my offer." "Why would I flee from the Soviet army?" "It's coming here, pushing all of you Mannerheimists into the sea." "They'll carry me home, even if it's just my dead bones." "The Soviet Union is hardly the savior." "Yes, they can come for you, but they'll take you - and sentence you to death for high treason, being a POW." "On what fantastic assumptions do you base that?" " Various intelligence." "Stalin's martial law is interpreted so that a POW is a traitor." "What happened to the Russian POWs of the Winter War- when they returned home?" "They were sent to the prison camps." "Have you seen that, too?" " We have more from the German eastern front." "We know about the Russian POWs who've been released." "Individual capitulation is punished by execution, - in mass capitulations, the officers were shot." "I'm afraid, Kerttu, that the Russians in Helsinki won't save you." "Cooperation with us just might do it." "Isn't this surreal?" "We're sitting here drinking - during the worst massacre in human history and we're bargaining." "I've experienced NKVD interrogations." "No candlelight dinners there." "There was a smell of burnt human flesh." "Blood smelled like iron." "I've been at a prison camp in Kazakhstan, innocent." "You're asking me to cooperate with the aid of sparkling wine." "Yes." "And promises of freedom." "Let me go back to my cell." "I want to be alone." "Calm down, dear Kerttu." "Excuse me." "Dear?" "Circuit Judge Anthoni, good morning." "To what do I owe this honor?" "What literature circle are you running here?" "I'm handling this as best as I can, alright?" "You're letting the Russian spy read worthless rubbish." "I'm presenting our culture to the prisoner - in order to make her understand our national rights." "But where's the intelligence?" "I want it for the Secret Police." "You're busy with poetry." "Yes, we read poems." "You at the Secret Police made the prisoners sing." " We still do." "Not always too beautifully, because you beat time with rods." "Culture of the body is your expertise." "They should be interrogated, and we have the methods." "In our hands, that battery whore would've told everything weeks ago." "If you're not up to the task, - we can always send the bashful bird to Tallinn " "and let the Germans have her." "Those choirmasters can make anybody sing." "Everybody I've sent there." "I work within the law as I deem best." "Anything else, Mr Arno?" " To the Tallinn Gestapo is where she's going." "If you can't find the right tune." "Now, I've warned you." "Even I could understand that." "Arno, the door's there, if you please." "The HQ wants intelligence, so does the Secret Police." "I'm also waiting, but not for long." "Do you remember I promised you a visitor?" "A visitor?" " You wanted one." "When was this?" "What month is it now?" "Don't you remember, Kerttu?" " Kerttu." "It sounds so strange when you say Kerttu." "Excuse me, I'm tired." "I think meeting this person will cheer you up." "Would it help?" " I'm sure." "When is he coming?" " He won't come here." "He refuses to enter the Okhrana's lairs." "You can guess whom he represents." "Who is it?" "My name is Arvo Tuominen, ex-secretary of Komintem, Moscow." "Poika Tuominen, they call me." "Stalin's former colleague and also knew Lenin." "I also had the honor of knowing Mrs Kerttu's father." "With Lenin I've only spoken a few times, - but Stalin and I were on a first name basis and I know his thoughts well." "Some say a little too well." " Yes, I wouldn't recommend it." "People who know Josif Vissarianovich often die suddenly." "Many of his good friends have also mysteriously disappeared." "Let's talk about good people, like your father." "He was a fine man, Santeri Nuorteva was." "And a journalist just like you." "We journalists are one big family." "The Okhrana's men have nothing on us." "I'll let you two talk in private." "This will be an interesting evening, so you should read something good." "It'll be long wait." "Even I know that much about female beauty." "After you." "I've heard about you, a lot." "Go ahead, I know you want to." "You're wondering why a professional revolutionary like me - is helping these Okhrana thugs." "I don't want to hurt you in any way." "I'm not afraid of criticism." "Anymore." "I used to be, as if my life depended on it." "But not anymore." "You can start by giving me hell - for not having accepted the post Stalin offered me." " The post?" "As Prime Minister in the Terijoki Cabinet." "Or why did I leave the privileges of the Moscow elite?" "Or rather, why didn't I ever return to Moscow?" "Many have wondered why you did that." "Especially after I'd left the Communist Party." "I'd been a member from the start and been the General Secretary of it." "How could you betray your comrades?" "I thought these penny-pinchers wouldn't serve anything." "They're good at letting people starve as in the Tammisaari camps." "However, I've brought something." "So, what am I actually?" "Could I be a parliamentary anti-Kautskyist?" "A Communist I am not, even if" "I like to quote Lenin, whom I respect as a statesman." "Am I an internationalist who is true to his homeland?" "Or only a left-winger who accepts the private sector?" "That's exactly how hard it is." "But one thing is for sure:" "I am not a Stalinist." "Period." "Let's have some tea." "No surrogate, but real tea." "I brought it from Stockholm." "Have you ever been there?" "It's a wonderful city." "Excuse me, Mrs Nuorteva, I didn't want to hurt you." "Are you alright?" "You seem so pale." "It'll soon pass." "Please, go on." "I don't want to confuse you, but talk about my own truth." "There are so many of them." "Is she already done?" " Not yet." "Mrs Nuorteva is pretty tired." " Due to her insomnia." "Should I continue?" " Right now, you should." "Give her this." "Pervitin." "Our guerrilla fighters take it against tiredness." "Oh, I thought you were a desk pusher." "Let's go back to the year 1938." "Why all the changes in the Karelian administration?" "Why were the leaders in education and economy replaced?" "They weren't replaced, they were killed." "I hope you're not only relying on rumors." "My intelligence is based on reports." "At first, the Party received answers." "The reasons were unbelievable, fabricated lies." "Then even these stopped coming." "But old Party members disappeared week after week." "Thousands of Finns disappeared." "Some to the prison camps in the north, - some with a bullet in their neck on a concrete floor in NKVD:s cellars." "What do you know of my brothers?" "I don't want to answer." "I'm sorry." "What gives them the right?" "Why?" "These questions woke me up from the slumber of lies, too." "But I'm a Soviet soldier." "I have a duty towards the Party and my fatherland." "I've given my word, pledged allegiance." "How has that fatherland treated you?" "It rewarded you with prison camp." "Sent you recklessly to a statistically certain death." "Do you think your superiors didn't know - that not a single spy has returned?" "I'm sure nothing could've made them take this mission." "You they were ready to sacrifice." " Yes, I've thought about that." "That someone connected Russian gain with ethnic liquidation, " "destroying a useless Finn by sending her to Finland." "Excuse me, I'm simply so sick and tired of all this." "I understand, Mrs Nuorteva." "Maybe we should stop." " No, I beg of you, " "I need to know a few things." "Otherwise, I can't find peace." "We'll continue with this on a better night, I promise." "Please." "You are of great help." "I trust your sincerity." "What do you know about my father's dear friend Kullervo Manner?" "We'll come back to that later." " No, you must tell me." "I need to know." "They sent the former Speaker of Parliament to a prison camp." "He worked cleaning the shoemaker's workshop." "Then we lost track of Kullervo Manner." "There's no one left to tell." "And Kustaa Rovio?" "Or Yrjö Sirola?" "I can't continue." "Old Ursin?" "After all, he can't have hurt anyone." "As a friend of Lenin's, he was one of the first to go." "Gylling?" "Where's his family?" "What happened to them?" "How come you're still alive?" "She wants to confess." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "First, you need a good night's sleep." "Then we'll take your confession." "I can't." "The worst will be over tomorrow." " Tomorrow's when it will begin." "June 1943" "June 1943" "The patient is anxious, nervous and incoherent." "At times, she thinks Mannerheim is in danger, - then she orders terrorist attacks in Russian." "Very confused." " Can she be interrogated?" "A sick person?" " Yes, I'm afraid so." "I can't allow that." " She's a spy who promised to confess." "For now, she's a patient." "Captain, do you know what this is?" "An aluminium pen made into a sharp weapon." "I took this from the patient." "I don't think she'd use it against me or you." "No, against herself." "Do you understand?" "Yes, I do." "And I thank you for your help." "She's very important to us." "I gave her Luminal." "And also Malton." "I'll take her as my patient." "That's all I can promise." "I pulled the cord, the parachute opened." "It crackled and snapped above me in the wind." "It was moonlight." "A morning, a freezing morning." "You can do it, go on." "I saw the plane turn back, " "far away." "Suddenly, the snow hit me, crashing into me." "Branches were breaking, hitting me in the face." "Then it was quiet." "A dog was barking in the distance." "My parachute was caught in a tall spruce, " "at the top." "It was quiet." "Only woods, as far as I could see by moonlight." "I was simply... falling down like shedding needles onto this land." "On my own roots." "Kerttu?" "Mrs Nuorteva?" "Kerttu?" " Shall I wake her up?" "No, let her sleep." "The drugs and sleepless nights have caused this." "I don't know." " We'll try again tomorrow." "Contact Mikkeli, we must warn the HQ." "The Marshal is openly walking in the streets." "Any spy could get at him." "Regardless if this is true or hallucinations." "As you can see, it's no use for anyone." "Come back in three days, then we'll see." "I'd like to ask some questions, if you don't mind?" "I've promised to tell about this sad drama." "I appreciate your decision." "May we begin?" "Why wouldn't I tell?" " Good." "You told Dr. Schwanck Mannerheim's life is in danger." "Who's threatening him?" " Who!" "Like they do in dramas." "Hamlet threatened Polonius, the Chief Counsellor, - and killed him with a sword." "Or a dagger." "Mannerheim's poison dagger." "And Ryti was just looking at it, with a presidential chain around his neck." "Comrade..." "Please, open your mouth a little." "It may feel unpleasant..." "These are a little cold." "I've allowed the interrogations." "How do you feel about that?" "You don't have to answer." "They said I could leave." "Who has promised something like that?" "For Sweden." "Or Australia." "If I tell them everything." "It's a relief." "Tell them openly." "Your papers look better." "You're in better shape now." "How do you feel about that?" "I was released from the Kazakhstani concentration camp on 16.8.1940." "I thought I couldn't work for the state as a convicted non-patriot." "I was surprised that the NKVD still wanted me." "The Secret Police asked me - if I still wanted to work for my great Socialist fatherland." "Until death, I immediately answered." "Let's continue with you entering Finland." "What happened that morning?" "Tell us in detail." "You jumped and the parachute got caught in a tree." "You cut the chords." "Where did you hide the chute?" "I didn't have the time and I couldn't, either." "The chute was left there." "It was dark." "Soon, I couldn't use my hands." "I had lost my mittens." "I had a fur coat under the pilot gear - and I had a bag on my back." "The radio was in it." "And..." " And..." "I had a bag with the money in it." "And a muff, thank God, otherwise my hands would've frozen." "I plodded through the snow towards the dog." "At dawn, I'd reached the road." "I realized they'd dropped me in the wrong place." "That night, I was in Helsinki, - at Hansa Hotel." "Only there, in this strange land, they wanted to see my ID." "It passed." "I got a hotel room." "My first warm bath in months." "Later, I went out and bought newspapers and cigarettes." "I saw a sign: "Salon." "Paris." "Manicure and Cosmetics." "Member of the Academia Scientifiqua de Paris." "We train our employees."" "That was perfect for me." "The evenings I spent at the movies." "I was wondering..." "I'm still wondering, - how you dare cooperate with Hitler?" "Most of the intelligence I gathered was hearsay - public information or rumors." "I thought I was a bad spy." "I'd studied Finnish geography in Moscow with a calendar map." "About Finnish economy I knew data from the recession-era saw industry." "I don't even know if my radio messages were ever received." "In my first apartment, I blew the fuses." "The radio used a different current." "I shouldn't have brought it." "The same goes for the Russians' general knowledge of Finland." "They thought the Finns were starving." " And you believed it?" "Even I. They'd told me to bring rations along." "The intelligence gatherers before had been worse than me." "According to Finns who'd defected to the Soviet Union, " "Finland was a worker's hell and a robber barons' heaven." "We started believing there was a class war in Finland." "Maybe the German military might and the position of Leningrad - defined your generals' attitude towards Finland." "It's sad that the Soviet Union for so long has had three plagues:" "Fear, false beliefs and a dogmatic ideology." "The time ran out fifteen minutes ago." " We'll be ready in a moment." "We had a deal and your time ran out." " I'm sorry, but we're not ready." "Can I have a word with you?" "Was I being unclear?" "The patient is at your disposal only if she's recovering enough." "When I give you a time, that's all you get." "Do you want to wear her out?" "Soon, she'll be in such bad shape that you can't tell what's true." "Mrs Nuorteva expresses herself with precision and focus, - even with self-irony." "I think she's mentally in balance." "Are you a doctor?" "Yes, Mrs Nuorteva is a patient, but also a spy and a criminal." "Exactly, but this is a hospital, not a court of law." "The main thing is to get intelligence vital for security." "We're only interested in the truth." " The truth?" "Attacks against Mannerheim, Ryti's dance with Tanner and all that." "Hallucinations." "That's what you'll get if you again torment her." "She may be a spy, but now she's ill." "Still ill." "Then she'll be sentenced and executed ill." "Her only chance is to cooperate with us." "Alright, you'll have one more hour, but then you will leave the hospital." "Which one of you has promised she can leave the country?" "For Sweden or Australia." "An incredibly cruel game on your part, gentlemen." "Insanity seems to catch." "For Sweden or Australia?" "What did she mean by that?" " I've no idea." "Hallucinations again." "One thing's been puzzling me all this time." "Why did you accept such a hopeless assignment?" "Did I have a choice?" "Deportation, hunger, - death." "But you were born a Finn." "I've never been a Finnish citizen." "When I left, we were all hoping - that Finland as a German ally would lose the war." "Maybe, - but..." " But what?" "This should stay between us two." "You've been issued an international passport." "Under the name of Gertrud Alma Sanders, - born 10.11.1912, in Astoria, Oregon." "Can I trust you?" "How do I know you won't betray me?" "November 1943" "Following Soviet instructions, " "Kerttu Nuorteva-Warschavski, a journalist, carried out assignments - that she'd been given until she was apprehended." "According to the first and second paragraphs in chapter seven, - the Field Court Marshal deems " "that Kerttu Nuorteva should be sentenced to death as a spy." "Only a preliminary ruling." "The Court Marshal has the final word." "The bad news is, we won't be seeing each other for a while." "They'll transfer you to Katajanokka prison." "You now have the status of a prisoner." "Of one who will be executed." "Is this what my cooperation was worth?" "Can you take this to Mrs Aalto?" ""Dear Mirjam, " "I want to apologize to you and your husband Rainer- for having ungratefully and deceitfully destroyed the good - that I experienced in your home." "My actions have caused you unbearable difficulties." "The heavy burden of guilt is the price I pay for it." "I'll always pay the price of having turned Finnish-minded." "But I could feel that I recognized my cultural roots." "I saw it as necessary." "Still, I sincerely hope I'll never feel national conceit, - but I'll understand that patriotism is a need to serve your people." "I've been a naive idealist, please forgive me for that, too." "I hope you'll get this letter through the hands of good Comrades." "Kerttu."" "What shall we do?" "We'll take it to Aalto in prison." "May 1944" "How can you come in here?" " How are you doing?" "The Supreme Court Marshal has reached a verdict in your case, too." "How did it go for me?" " As expected." "Did I get a pardon?" " Judicially it's somewhat..." "We'll have to wait." "I've already began writing an appeal to president Ryti - so that he might pardon you." "My sentence is still the same." " Yes, it is." "But it's not final." " A final execution of it by a bullet." "Like Martta Koskinen last year." "Kerttu, they can't ignore your full confession." "You cooperated." "That will be rewarded." "Everything went wrong." "The law and justice sometimes follow different tracks." "This seems to be such an occasion." "The war will soon be over." "Why did I have to tell all this?" "Kerttu, you did the only sensible thing." "Now, I'm the biggest culprit." "A noble ass." "Do you see, doctor, that I'm a stupid person!" "To confess to people like you." " Kerttu, not so loud." "Will you still get the ass a passport?" "An international asspassport?" "God damn my gullible stupidity." "There's always a chance of mercy." "In this war, you didn't ask for mercy." "None was given, either." "Doctor, could you please just leave?" "Let's calm down a bit." "Life goes on." " Obviously." "You've got a new bar on your collar." "Everything's still in the open, legally." "Why did you get promoted?" "Because of my stupid confession?" "I've misunderstood a lot in our relationship." "Completely." " And I've counted on false promises." "Yes, the fault is mine, I know." "I must've raised your hopes too high." "I beg your forgiveness." "That you will never have." "At least we filed for a pardon." "The Prime Minister signed the petition." "If we don't succeed..." " Quiet." "You may still get the passport I promised." "And a safe journey far away from here." "You lied from the start." "This seems to be in vain." "All the best to you, Kerttu Nuorteva, and good luck." "You'll need it." "You'll need it." "You're losing the war." "True." "You won the war." "Maybe you lost the peace." "Why did you accept an assignment in Finland?" "It was all so hopeless." "Against your parents' country?" "Being a soldier and a Soviet citizen can't be enough." "Farewell, Lieutenant Kastari." "Your interrogations are over." "Do you know what I once thought of you?" " No." "I don't want to know, anymore." "Please, leave me alone now." "An armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union - was signed on September 19, 1944." "Hundreds of prisoners were released, among them Kerttu Nuorteva." "She was sent to the Soviet Union in October." "The reason is unclear." "She was sentenced to ten years in prison." "353107 was her persona ID number." "She died and was buried in late August 1963." "In a letter to Finland she wrote:" ""I simply can't accept that life went by so quickly, - before I even had taken a good look at it."" "Subtitles:" "Janne Staffans"