"The Age of Iron - or people living during the so-called age of Kalevala." "At the mercy of themselves, each other, their technology - their community, ruthless time - and the course of this tale - and history." "I promised to show you my new wife." "Look at her." "I made her myself." "Destroy her Do not take her to your home." "This should be shortened." "Made shorter." "Whose neck will this adorn?" " My sister's." "It is not born." "It will not melt." "Iron is not born." "It will not be born without begetting." "Iron will not be born without a woman begetting it." "Women give birth to everything, even iron." "They feed everything with milk, even iron." "Or it will not be born." "Stones may break- but iron will not be born without someone begetting it." "Do not talk to me." "I cannot do anything about it." "Come." "It will not be born without begetting, grow up without feeding." "Women create iron and feed it too." "Iron is not born It is not born!" "Get the blacksmith." "It is born to him." "He will not come." " The iron is his." "He will not come He is forging something important." "What?" " He is forging a woman." "A wife made of gold and silver." "To his own liking." "Will he not accept anything less..." "than gold and silver?" "He only accepts the dead one or one made of gold and silver." "He saved his dead wife's clothes." " He did?" "Yes, I saw them hanging from the rafters." "And his wife, the dead one, was not buried." "Not buried?" " No." "He fed her to his mother-in-law little by little." "Do you believe it?" "It is not true." "I made it up." "It is not true." "Do you believe it to be true?" "It is!" "I do not want it." "It is not mine." " You can have it." "I do not want it." "It used to belong to some woman." "It is used and worn." "I do not want it." "Do not make me." "I am frightened" "Fear not." "This is how the world is." "I bid thee welcome, my golden wife." "Even-tempered." "Well-mannered." "Self-made." "Forged to my liking, tempered to my will." "Do not be afraid." "Talk to her." "She knows everything about women's lives." "Old men smirking." "I do not know why." "They are smirking about something." "Do not call yourself young until you have buried one wife." "You know nothing about youth, child." "Barely free from your mother, holding you sister's hand." "She is afraid of you and this house." "That wife of yours does not eat much." "No!" "It is so, girl, that you cannot marry your father- and, in any case, he's dead - and so only your brother would be a worthy husband." "You will be powerful like your father" "You can see it." " You can?" "I am looking at what a powerful man was before me." "You look and think that you want to inherit the world from him." "Blacksmith, sell me a sword." "Is this the kind of sword which would kill a man?" "Who knows?" "We will see." "It depends on the man." " Which one, the killer or the killed?" "You do not know that?" " No." "Well, can you say how much shorter your killer sword is - compared to my little knife?" "What use is that knowledge?" " You would not ask if you knew." "Do you know which one lives longer - man or lamb?" " No." "The same amount of time after their throat has been slit." "That is the power of the word." "They understand it well." "Are you going to kill me now?" "No!" "I will give you my boat." "A horse." "A sword and a helmet." "As much silver as you dare take." "Do not kill me." "My mother would be left alone and my sister." "Let me live!" "What did you say about your sister?" "You want to give her to me?" "I will not!" "I think you will." "For your life." "If you want to trade with me, tell me what you will pay - or you will never see it again." "I will come and get it in a week." " What?" "What I bought from your brother." " You will see!" "You!" "She is so beautiful." "She does not argue, with the living or dead." "They are like sisters, this one and the dead one." "They wear the same clothes." "They happen to be the same size." "You will live alone." "She is remarkable." "Like she was made of two things no one had tried before:" "Dreams and silver." "Yes, she is made of those!" "Blacksmith, make me a gate, a lock and a key - to prevent dead women from secretly appearing in dreams at night." "One for me and one for you." "A gate, a lock and a key." " Only I can forge them." "No one else." "If it must be done." "Forge them so that they will hold - when you set them in your dreams." " I will." "When will you need it?" " When I come back from courting." "When will you come back?" " In eight days." "Who are you wooing?" "I wooed already, I bought one." "I made a deal." "Do not buy women They are a tough commodity." "When I go swimming a big horse swims next to me." "It is a dream." "And when I go to sleep my dead father appears." "It is a dream." "When I move across the cottage my brother looks at me." "In the forest you appear, an old man." "Where will I go?" "Standing at the side for too long." "Watching, fearing." "Being frightened." "This girl." "Do not be afraid." "You will not be afraid in the middle of the world." "In the middle of the world." "Under a man." "He is coming to ask her hand in marriage." "He can come." "What will you say to him?" "That a man is no worse than life." "You would give my sister to him?" "Your daughter?" "She is afraid of men." "Afraid." "Not me, but others." "I protect her." "I will give her to a powerful man." "You will?" "I already promised her." "I made a deal." "For my life." "The price was my life." "There are daughters in the North." "Go there!" "We have none left." "I would have given you my daughter." "Go across the river." "On top of the rocks!" "I am not afraid." "I am not afraid." "The dead do not fear anything." "Continue on your journey." "Screenplay:" "Paavo Haavikko" "Music:" "Aulis Sallinen" "Who are you?" "Production Designer:" "Ensio Suominen" "Director:" "Kalle Holmberg"