"Intelligence Service MI6 London 1929" "We believe Mrs. Wuolijoki is actively working for the NKVD." "The Russians call her the Poet." "We also heard she's an operative for Germany, or Japan." "Yesterday she visited the Medea office in Helsinki." " What is it?" "A front set up by her sister Salme Dutt, a communist spy." "Security Service NKVD Moscow 1929" "Lady Muriel Paget, a British agent and a guest at Wuolijoki's home." "The British businessman she helped enter the country." "Obvious connections with Ml6." "I'm sorry." "We have reason to believe - that Mrs. Wuolijoki works for the British." "Finnish State Police Helsinki 1929" "Moscow and London give us conflicting information." "We have to know who that woman is spying for!" "God only knows." "Lately, she's been focusing on her business." "Buying sawmills and petrol stations, importing Russian films to Finland." "Raivio, I want everything we have on Wuolijoki." " Virtanen!" "The lady seems to travel a lot." " We need the lady for questioning." "I could've become the leader of Turkestan - as soon as I'd negotiated loans for their coffee and cotton plantations." "I would've had all the power, even military power." "I told them no." "I told them thank you, but no thank you." "I am first and foremost a businesswoman." "My mother was the most successful businesswoman in Helsinki." "She was able to supply anything." "After the war, everything sold." "Commissar Krasin has already appointed me." "I would've had all the power, including military power." "My father." "The esteemed Member of Parliament, lawyer, journalist, Master of Arts." "Where's my wife?" " She's with guests, sir." "I'm not so drunk that you need to beat me!" " No." "Except all week, and on Sunday and Monday." "You told people I was in a delirium and you'd called the police." "What can one do when someone's raging like an animal?" "No one has ever called me an animal, and neither will you again." "I made you a woman, Ella Murrik!" "I dreamed of you not so long ago." "I cried and ranted, because I was afraid you'd leave me." "We agreed to build our life together, but you deceived me." "I could leave, without any scandal or revenge." "Go on my way, and no one would notice!" "For a while." "Me, ten years old." "I would've become a man with so little." "But not in the way you thought." "I bought the Marlebäck mansion, in litti." "We'll use these only on Sundays." " No, we'll eat from them every day." "Your father and I are getting a divorce." "Do you understand?" " Yes." "Good." " I read it in the paper four weeks ago." "Annual exports rose to 20,000 standards." "How did you get a loan from the Bank of England?" "I'm a good talker." "The state police were watching my mother- because of her connections with the Soviet Union." "10 years later" "Mother was always away on business - all around Europe and the Soviet Union." "I grew up alone in the mansion." "What are you clattering here for?" " I got hungry at the sawmill." "You made Jussi pick you up in the middle of the night." "Jussi didn't complain." "Give me some milk, Vappu." "No one dares complain." " Why not?" "I'm a democratic person." "You know that I abide by a socialist world view." "Next year, I'll have 2,400 workers at the sawmill." "Do you pay Jussi a salary?" " I educated him." "I paid for his books and gave him money whenever he needed it." "Klaara, does Hella pay you a salary?" "I taught Klaara to be independent." "I have 8-hour working days, collective supervisors, open books." "We're like one big family." "I've earned all I've got." "Don't eat so much, you'll become shapeless." "Did I raise you to talk to your mother like that?" "You didn't raise me." "Fräulein raised me." "110,000 logs came from Russia, but they have a seller's market." "We'll see once the invoice arrives." "The bank trusts me." "Have you applied for an extension on the fee payments?" "What's the rush?" " We haven't paid them for two years." "No, we haven't." " The bank wants us to at least pay the interest." "Let them show up at my door." "And why did they contact you?" "You ignore them, even though you owe millions." "That's right." " You seem to follow your own rules, Madam." "0ctober 29, 1929." "Black Tuesday." "The New York Stock Exchange is in a panic." "Frantic investors have scrambled to unload their stocks." "Everyone wants to sell, no one wants to buy." "Suddenly the most gilt-edged securities are valueless." "The stock market crash has come, and the Great Depression..." "Ask the bank for an extension on the interest payment." "I already did, a few months ago." " That was then." "Ask again." "Take these to the pawn shop, but tell them not to sell them yet." "You should pawn this too." "Not that." "It's a keepsake." "It's just an object." "You should let go." "You should sell Marlebäck." " Never." "Well, start writing then." "White Finland wouldn't dare produce a play by Hella Wuolijoki." "Mother decided to write under a pen name." "First, she was Felix Tuli." "Then, Juhani Tervapää." "Her first play had been published 20 years earlier - but it was banned in Helsinki and Tallinn." "The pen name allowed her to avoid censorship and prejudice." "We sent plays to publishers and theatres, here and there." "They were rejected everywhere." "We sent one to the most famous director in the country " "Eino Salmelainen." "Juhani Tervapää, "Any objections?"" "The writer and the play have original names." "The name of the play is bad, but the text is brilliant." "With a new playwright, we won't get in trouble with the union." "It's hard to find props in these financial times." "I'm happy to help fledgling writers." "Your assistant stage manager told me - that I'll get my furniture back soon." ""The Women of Niskavuori" won't run very long - even though it's directed by Eino Salmelainen." ""The Women of Niskavuori" Premiere 1936" "A marvellous performance." "Congratulations, Mrs. Wuolijoki." "Well, did they slate it?" "This is sheer praise." ""The Women of Niskavuori"." "The judge takes out a brandy bottle." ""Leave the girl be." "Her story is sad in this time of unemployment. "" ""Even cigarette factories are firing people, not to mention..."" "One moment!" " "It's sad that Hulda is beyond redemption as a citizen."" ""Women of the streets don't vote."" ""Hulda is so pretty that it's unlikely she'll be rescued."" "Can I take a cigarette break?" " Don't you like that line, Firinä?" "I do, but I'd also like a cigarette and some coffee." "I'll have Hulda make coffee for the gentlemen." "That's a good idea, isn't it, Firinä?" "She doesn't hear or listen." "I wonder if her heart's in this." "They won't accept me as a member of the playwright's union." " Why not?" "They don't tell why." " It's political." "I wouldn't feel bad." " I'm not fit to be a Finn." "Or an author in this country." "Valued plays run at the National Theatre - and my plays under an alias at the People's Theatre, with my furniture." "Give me a cigarette, Vappu." "I'll have Hulda smoke in the final scene." "Smoke cigarettes and drink cocktails." "What do you think?" "THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER" "What a nice-looking girl." " A real country girl." "Sitting there with her plywood box." "I can tell she's from our part of the country." "I am, and I recognise you, Mr. Ali-Lehtonen." "So you are from Sääksmäki!" " Yes, my name is Hulda Juurakko." "Good evening." "I've been eagerly waiting for you." "Are you still going on with that foolishness?" "Hulda... a ring isn' too rich a price for you." "Do you honestly believe I want a ring from you?" "Never!" "For seven years, you've been weighing me up with your eyes." "I honestly don't know why I like you so much!" "I don' want to become your wife." "Do you hear me?" "You're struggling in vain." "You know that, don' you?" "You can' escape it." "Mother's plays were also successful abroad." "Ladies and Gentlemen." "One of the top industrialists in our country " "Mrs. Hella Wuolijoki, is 50 years old today." "Her school of life has been as follows:" "Cooking school in Estonia, university in Helsinki..." "A congratulatory call from America." "Ernestine Evans." "The response has been great." "Everybody loves your plays." "That's lovely to hear." " How can such nonsense succeed?" "But they want to know if you're a socialist." "As my agent, you can tell them all the great writers are." "Well, I'll tell them." "Happy birthday, Hella." "As we have witnessed - this "factory" can produce a three-act play in a week." "What's more, the factory has started exporting its products." "The trademark Hella Wuolijoki is already world-famous." "Her fatherland congratulates her." "This is Hella Wuolijoki's idea of a person corrupted by capitalism." "Listen to this line, for example:" ""Dear Robert, everything that I have I've paid for in bed."" "She portrays a society lady as a street woman and a vampire." "This Hilda Harmaalahti talks and acts like a harlot." "Goddammit, what stuffy sociology!" " Right." "I always try to forget stories that end sadly." "Do you succeed?" " You're too curious." "What was the story then?" " Centuries ago...." "Well, what do you think?" "You didn't have to kill "Green Gold" at the theatre." "It wasn't your best play." "It's the one dearest to me." "But the critics were unanimous." "Sentimentality doesn't suit you." " It's not sentimentality but poetry." "Why don't you write about yourself?" "As you are." "That would be a guaranteed success." "I write world literature." "I can't help it if the audience loves it." "Dear Foreign Minister Tanner." "I escaped the bombs to Marlebäck - and I've been sitting here paralysed for three weeks." "The cows need to be taken care of- but God, isn't there anything more I could do in this tragedy?" "Are you attempting any kind of dialogue with Moscow?" "They should be willing to get out of this situation." "I'm one of the few people they've been friendly with." "I'm sure they would negotiate with me." "I can contact the Soviet ambassador to Sweden, Alexandra Kollontai." "You can't afford to say no." "Every possibility must be taken into account." "We can't afford to say no." "Every possibility must be taken into account." "The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden confirms contact - between Finland and the Soviet Union to start negotiations." "Grand Hotel, Stockholm 1 939" "Foreign Minister Tanner has been visiting Stockholm." "As an unofficial representative " "Hella Wuolijoki was allowed to contact the Soviet ambassador" "Madam Kollontai." "How are you, Hella?" "Goddammit, Madam Kollontai." "With her contacts, Mother arranged peace for Finland - but once the official negotiations started, she was pushed aside." "The situation in Marlebäck was disastrous." "The bank called in the loans." "There was no feed for the cattle." "Mother couldn' pay the bills." "I've cleared 75 hectares of new fields." "Now we have 140 hectares in all." "The main building was renovated in the style of Engel." "There are 22 fireplaces, and 50 hectares of forest." "The offer of Director Laaksonen and Mrs. Rissanen is the best." "Well, the only one." "Damn it." "I've been managing this mansion for 20 years." "Do I have to leave it now?" "The contents of the house must be left as they are." "That's the condition of the offer." "Jokela mansion, January 1 941" "I live close to Helsinki now." " Mother tried to assure Tanner - that the Soviet Union would be a better ally than Germany." "Their ambassador's behaviour suggests different." "Terentyev promised to replace him with someone better." "Finland's neutrality will be rewarded with commercial benefits." "We can guarantee that." "I'll be frank with you." "The Soviet Union wants to focus on more significant matters - and not aggravate the situation with Finland." "So, the Soviets have more pressing matters to worry about?" "I should've known better than to handle politics with women." "Finland is entering another war." "Hitler declares that we will fight the Soviet Union in alliance - im bunde, with Germany." "March 1942" "Madam Wuolijoki, there's someone here to see you." "Good evening." " Good evening." "My name is Elina Hämäläinen." " Who sent you?" "I'm looking for work." "My husband died in the Winter War." "Do you have children?" " I was ordered to see the Poet." "I'm supposed to live here as a secretary or a maid." "Parachutists are always caught and shot." "I bring greetings from Comrade Terentyev." "Who was it?" " Some poor girl, looking for work." "She had injured her foot." "I told her she could spend the night." "Where had she injured her foot?" "Take something warm to drink to the library." "How could peace give the Germans a foothold in this country?" "Moscow regrets that they didn't occupy Finland in the war." "The Soviet Union acted stupidly after the Winter War." "And what has their propaganda been like?" "If only they'd tried a bit of humour - but they have no sense of humour whatsoever." "Terentyev sent you this." "It's 10,000 marks." "He remembered his debt." "Bertolt Brecht's fare to America." "It's not a debt." "It's a reward for the Poet." "I'll keep it for you." " I have my own money." "That's yours." "Someone will make a bed for you - but you'll have to leave first thing tomorrow." "My real name isn't Elina Hämäläinen." "I was sent here to find out the situation in Finland." "How many Germans are there?" " 1 00,000, in Northern Finland." "I have to inform Moscow." " They know." "They have contacts with the English." "There's a clever British spy here." "A journalist." "We know that the Germans are everywhere - and that they eat Finland's food supplies." "Do you know anything at all?" "What's your position?" "The Germans have their own supplies, and they buy meat from us." "This house has hosted peace negotiations." "You were going to show me your papers." "I don't have any food or clothes coupons." "I don't have food coupons either." "We're a self-sufficient household." "I'll come back for my transmitter, once I've settled." "You'll take your radio transmitter with you." "If they inspect the train, throw it out of the window." "How can I contact you?" "Drop her off before the station." "People might recognise the horse." "She's about 30 years old." "Height... 1 70 centimetres." "Dark hair, red lips." " Thank you, that's enough." "Please." "You're an exceptionally perceptive woman." "Upstairs and out." "In the small hours of March 30th, a female was parachuted into Vihti." "She came to Wuolijoki's mansion on that evening and spent the night." "And Wuolijoki hurried to Stockholm." " Where's my call to Stockholm?" "Sofiahemmet Hospital Stockholm" "I thought this would cheer you up." "It was nothing serious, so there'll be no operation." "But I should eat more healthily." "You should stay in Sweden." "You earn enough money from your plays." "No one would harass you anymore." "Was I being followed?" "Were there policemen outside?" "The key to the code is on page six." "The Swedish police will stop when their working day is done." "Can I borrow this?" "A merry-looking trollop." "Mrs. Yartseva is not a trollop, Raivio." "She's a spy." "Alexandra Nikolaevna, or actually Voskresenskaya." "Do any of them have only one name?" "I want Wuolijoki charged with treason." "Nothing less." "Why did they send that woman to me?" " What do you mean?" "The parachutist whom Terentyev sent." " I don't think he sent anyone." "She gave me 1 0,000 marks and said they were from Terentyev." "We'll take care of her." "Find out from Tanner and Paasikivi if Finland is interested in peace." "Here's an English translation of your play." "There's nothing dangerous in it." " I can't." "They'll search my things." "Take it." "Unless you want to lose the Soviet Union's trust." "Have a good journey home." "Good evening, Mrs. Wuolijoki." "Take that bench down." "I need to lie on my back." "The bench stays where it is." "I'm an old woman." "I come straight from hospital." "There's not even room to walk." "Could you dust them while you're at it?" "Did a Soviet parachutist visit you at Jokela?" " No." "We heard otherwise." " A woman called Elina Hämäläinen asked for work." "You knew that wasn't her name." " No, I didn't." "Why did you leave for Sweden right after?" "I was supposed to have an operation there." "Well, did you?" " No." "It wasn't necessary." "You know that messages to the Soviet Union go via Sweden." "On what grounds are you holding me?" " Of aiding the enemy." "You met with Soviet diplomats, or spies, in Sweden." "I will prove it." "Bring the parachutist here, so I can see her too." "Take Mrs. Wuolijoki back to her cell." "She knows that we haven't caught the parachutist." "They're always caught." "It's just a matter of time." "We have to release Wuolijoki." "Since you suspect me of all kinds of things, it's best I leave." "What can I do if I'm not trusted?" "It must've come as a surprise that I came back." "State police 1942" "Name?" " Elina Hämäläinen." "You say you're Elina Hämäläinen?" "Elina Sigrid Hämäläinen." "I'm a Bolshevik." "I love my country, which sent me on a reconnaissance mission to Finland." "Did you tell the writer Wuolijoki your real name?" "Who do you mean?" "You shouldn't leave your radio transmitter in a laundry." "You're Kerttu Nuorteva, the daughter of Santeri Nuorteva." "From a cultural family." "Relatives in important positions." "How about I make you an offer?" "We could arrange for you to move to Sweden or America." "A betrayal of trust can be hard for a convinced person." "The Soviet Union has left you to your own devices." "One." "Hella Wuolijoki passed on secret correspondence - with red prisoners sentenced for treason." "Two." "She arranged Otto-Ville Kuusinen's escape to Sweden." "Three." "She hid the American communist John Reed." "Four." "Communists spent fancy holidays at her mansion." "Five." "She hosted a political salon at her luxury apartment." "They were all there." "Film stars, spies, communists, and traitors." "We know that, and everything else." "The parachutist confessed in full." "May 1 943" "Names?" " Wuolijoki, Hella Maria." "Maiden name?" " Murrik." "Date and place of birth?" " Helmi, Estonia. 22nd August, 1886." "Occupation?" " Master of Arts, managing director, author." "Nationality?" " Finnish." "Estonian nationality, Finnish citizenship." "Spouse and children?" " Sulo Ilmiö Wuolijoki, divorced." "Daughter Vappu Wuolijoki." " Vappu Tuomioja, née Wuolijoki." "Height 1 60 - 170." "Face round, full, and cone-shaped." "Double chin, a scar on the joint of her little finger." "Clean up." "The spitting bowl." "I don't use it." "Take it away." "Nothing is taken away." "You're going to clean it." "I wash my own dishes, not other people's." "You'll do as I tell you." "I brought Finland peace from the Winter War." "The state owes me for timber." "My works are read all over the world." "And you take a parachutist's word over mine." "Nuorteva made a full confession." " Is her name Nuorteva?" "The daughter of the President of the Karelian ASSR." "You knew." "Santeri Nuorteva's daughter." "I didn't know that." "You'd better just confess everything." "What does that mean?" "Do you want to make me a spy?" "You shouldn't be upset, Mrs. Wuolijoki." " No." "Even though you've suggested that my execution is certain." "Who suggested that?" " You said - that the author Rantamala broke down when he heard his death sentence." "It was just what I'd heard." "It wasn't a threat." "Why did you bring the message from Stockholm?" " What?" "The one that was written on your play with invisible ink!" "I don't know what was in it." "I lost the key." "Is it true that Minister Tanner doesn't want to see me?" " Yes." "If I have to die useless, so be it." "But I will not die a spy." "You'll be sent to prison to await sentencing." "September 1 943" "The watch too." "Get yourself settled." "Wake up!" "Emptying of the latrine buckets!" "Emptying of the latrine buckets!" "Your bucket." "I can't." "Get the lady's bucket." "Managing the Jokela farm was left up to me." "64 hectares of land and over 20 cows." "There were no workmen." "Everyone was fighting on the front." "My eye and heart medicine." "Ask the orthopaedist about my back." "I want Thesleff's biography of Minna Canth." "And why can't you manage to send me that mattress?" "And the pink duvet." "I'm trying not to think about Jokela." "It's good that you learn what it takes to run a mansion." "Has anyone asked after me?" "No one visits me." "Keep your distance!" "Take your hands out of your pockets!" "Keep moving!" "Take your hands out of your sleeves!" "Eyes down!" "Mother never talked to Kerttu Nuorteva again." "While waiting for her sentence, Mother began to write her memoirs." "0ne morning, at the end of September in 1904 - an 18-year-old Estonian girl arrived at Helsinki station." "She had a basket and an old-fashioned leather bag." "I'm here for having 18 food rationing cards." "I know you would've asked." " How do you know that?" "They say you ask a lot." "Why can't a rich and civilised lady get herself more privileges?" "How does one get them?" " I have everything I need." "Information and cigarettes." "I know all the messaging systems." "You need to be on good terms with the cooks and others." "Smoking is not allowed in the cells." "And no one sits on my bed, especially not like that." "You don't know how the women of the world sit in their lounges." "When I get out, I'm going to Hotel Torni with my friends." "I'll drink myself into a stupor." "Have you had a lot of men?" "I bet you have." "Men go after money and fame." "And you're a handsome woman." ""November 27th, 1 943." "The field court-martial has sentenced - the author Hella Wuolijoki to life in penal servitude for treason."" "What does penal servitude mean?" " Less rations and privileges." "You're not allowed to receive food from home, or newspapers." "The Minister of Justice has decreed that prison food is sufficient." ""The sentence has been submitted to the court-martial appeal court."" ""The matter is still undecided."" "Can I still be sentenced to death?" " It's possible." "December 1943" "Väinö sends his regards and wishes you a Happy New Year." "He has tried to do everything he can." "You need a presidential pardon before you're sentenced to death." "But I've done no crime." "They seem to think you knew what that woman wanted from you." "All I wanted was peace." "I thought she came to negotiate peace." "I wrote the petition for you." "Read it at least." "Why do I have to petition for a pardon, as if I was a criminal?" "The girl stood alone and helpless on the platform - until a porter saw her and took her luggage to a carriage." "Court-martial appeal court 1 944" "I don't deny my guilt of actions that can be considered treason - and for which I can be sentenced to death." "But I sincerely believe that the relations I established - were of great importance to our country's fate." "I made contact with the enemy - only to sever our country from its disastrous ally, Germany - and to find a way toward peace." "Thank you." "With votes of 3 - 2, the appeal court sentences Hella Wuolijoki - to life in penal servitude." "Mother avoided the death sentence by one vote." "Here's part two, 21 5 pages." "Take it to the publisher." "You're not surprised." "People expect great feats from your mother." "I would've written a play too, but my back doesn't allow it." "What's the matter?" " I'm tired." "Don't complain, you're free." "Are you tired from work?" "Where are the accounts then?" " I run the farm day and night." "I take care of the loans, interest, lawyer's fees, and salaries." "And I have to wait on you." "You make unreasonable demands." "You have never thanked me for running Jokela." "I do commend you." " Maybe to others, but not to me." "Why did you want a child in the first place?" "Do you love me at all?" "Are you able to love anyone?" "How much love did you get for paying your husband to be a steward?" "For giving your lover 300,000 marks worth of timber stocks?" "Did you record the debits and credits?" "How much did you give and how much love did you get?" "I've never had a strong man." "I was almost sentenced to death." "Goodbye, Mother." "The child is coughing!" "Who's coughing?" "Peace has come!" "The Minister of Justice ordered you to be released today." "Nuorteva will be deported back to the Soviet Union." "The winner will be demanding heads on a platter." "If I were President Ryti, I'd leave for Sweden." "Ryti is a moralist, he won't escape." "But I will." "Give me a cigarette, Vappu." "Well?" "Do you think there's still use for me in this country?" "After the war, Hella Wuolijoki became a Member of Parliament - and the director of the Finnish Broadcasting Company." "She died in 1954 in Helsinki at the age of 67." "Her plays and the movies based on them are beloved classics." "Finally!" "You naughty girl." "I was in danger of becoming a rich lady's lover." "Hello!" " Hello, Heta." "Welcome, Loviisa." " What a handsome house!" "Just like Niskavuori." " It's a few metres longer." "Marry me?" "An uncultured girl you'd have become tired of." "It would've been a marriage similar to your present one." "Cocktail, Miss Juurakko." " Thank you, Professor." "Is this a martini?" "I don' drink anything else." "Cheers, ladies and gentlemen!" "I thought I'd forbid you to visit my grave." "But do come." "Great God in Heaven, give me love." "Give me love, give me love!" "Dear radio listeners." "As I'm leaving the Finnish Broadcasting Company " "I would like to say a few words to my listeners." "To all of you who have these four years supported- the programmes broadcast by this institution." "Subtitles:" "Minna Franssila Broadcast Text International"