"Tulio presents" "Free adaptation from Pushkin's Postmaster" "The film has been recorded from the English language version" "Achtung!" "Achtung!" "Hans Müller served as a pilot during the Second World War - in a German bombing squadron." "The squadron was in Northern Norway" "The Germans flew from there over Lapland to bomb Murmansk" "Lapland is a desert, covered with snow for most of the year" "Finnish, Swedish and " "Norwegian Lapland covers a vast area as big as England" "Some of them own several thousand reindeer" "These owners are very rich, - but they spend their lives as the rest of them" "They live in huts when they follow the herd" "Now you lost your chance" "Laura just brought a handsome German into her hut" "You're good, good man, Aslak, help German soldier" "The leg is badly dislocated" "Ein, zwei, one year in war in Finlandia, - now in Norway, again in war." " War is not ours" "Comrade in arms or an enemy, it's the same" "Lapland is our county." "We have no enemies" "Laila, help" "I'll pull the dislocated leg into place" "It hurts" "A few weeks and you can run and walk... again" "Better this way?" "If you are here, it's always better" "I'm going out now, but I'll leave the door open, so you can see" "Come" "Laila, komm!" "What Aslak do?" "Silly?" "Father is neutering reindeer" "What?" "Ich... don't understand" "This reindeer, just like a man" "My father is neutering it." "Then it's no longer man" "Aah, Mein Gott" "We always neuter all reindeer bulls" "Lapps neuter them by biting" "He bites the balls with his teeth and sucks them empty" "We breed them for meat" "Neutered bull is peaceful even in heat" "It grows and fattens more easily" "That's why we neuter them" "Ach so!" "I see!" "What are you looking at, is there something wrong?" "Oh, nothing wrong, that's why I look" "Come nearer ich kann nicht talk very much yet" "Du bist sweet" "Wait a minute." "Sit down!" "Thanks a lot for taking me here" "Quite dying of cold there." "Thank you very much" "Your hands are so hot" "You have fever" "Father, come here, quickly" "Quickly, father, quickly!" "(narrator's voice) The round-up is work and play for the Lapps" "After the round-up Aslak drove his large herd into the fields" "With Aslak's blessing Laila tried to nurse - the injured and feverish Hans back to health" "While fighting for the life of this stranger during these days " "Laila fell in love as only a child of nature can" "The days passed quickly and soon Hans was on his feet again" "Can I help?" "Look!" "Spring is coming" "It's warm in the south now" "Are you... home-sick?" "I was at first." "Not now, since I met you" "The best days of my life" "You will be well soon" "Maybe soon you'll go away, and I'll never see you" "Will you miss me when I go?" "Laila, Hell!" "Go inside and stay there" "Leave the girl alone, she's not for you" "But I love her" "So you think." "You are well enough to leave now" "All right. I will say goodbye to Laila." "May I?" "Yes" "I am leaving" "Why?" " l must, your father wants it" "Father!" "You can't drive Hans away." " Better for him" "If he touches you again I could kill!" " Father!" "I would." "It's better for you, too, that he goes" "But father, why?" " You're like your mother" "She wasn't from here restless woman, left m' e" "You never told me." " l would have" "Good day." "Seen any German soldiers around here?" " Why?" "The war with Russia is over." "We are at war with Germany now" "The Germans are enemies now." " The porridge is burning!" "Go and hide." "There are Finnish soldiers" "They are looking for Germans." "There's a war with Germany now" "And you are an enemy of my county" "The Germans are retreating, we must search everywhere" "How can someone be a friend yesterday and an enemy today?" "That's how it is, and if we find Finns hiding them, - they will be harshly punished." "Boys, search the hut" "Good looking chick" "I'd like to get her between the sheets - l wouldn't say no" "But I would" "It's just that there was a pretty Lapp girl there, Sir" "Let's go" "Why did you save me?" "I am your enemy now" "You are not an enemy to me" "In the wilderness shelter is always given to the needy" "And he is not betrayed, - no matter how unworthy he may be as a friend." "Come!" "Danke schön, Laila" "Let's go now" "This is the landmark between Finland, Sweden and Norway" "On the right there is Norway and on the left Sweden" "Ski over there and you'll be safe" "Thank you, Aslak, Thank you for everything" "The years have passed, there is peace in Europe" "The Second World War is history" "from the distant snowy wilderness the Lapps gather - to the warmness of the town to the annual market" "It's a meeting place for friends and relatives, - a time for going to church, shopping and having fun" "Hans had returned to his old profession after the war" "He was a press photographer" "Laila, Laila, Laila!" "The eyes of Aslak were everywhere" "He watched over his child like a wild beast" "Hello!" "Nice to see you after such a long time" "Oh, hello what are'you doing here?" "My magazine would like a Lapp girl for its cover" "Who would be better than Laila?" " l don't like the idea" "Oh, father, please." "It would be such fun" "Well, alright then" "Today you win, but don't stay long" "We'll meet in the village" "Aslak wonders in vain Did I do the right thing?" "No point in Sami making eyes with Laila any more" "Laila on Jy sees Hans" "She hasn't forgotten her first great love" "She is still in love, like on Jy a childen of nature can be" "Look, a Lapp wedding." "There is the bride and groom" "They are from Kautokeino." "You can see if from their clothes" "Do... you already... have a wife?" "No, I don't" "Not yet" "Is that true?" "Of course." "What about you?" "You must have someone?" "There's that Sami but he's not for me" "When I saw you it was love at first sight - when you were there in the snow - and when you left, I wanted to come with you" "Come with me to Helsinki where I'm living at the moment" "Oh, that would be fun but it's impossible" "No, it's not." "We can go there in a few hours by plane" "You know father." "He wouldn't let me, at least not with you" "Don't ask him." " No Hans, I couldn't just go" "He'd be furious" "Where is Laila?" " She is with that photographer" "Where are they?" "Over here... in the hotel" "Damn!" "Good day." " Does Mr. Müller live here?" "Yes, but he left a couple of hours ago." " Alone?" "No, he had the Lapp girl with him." " My daughter" "That's right, she left this here to post" "Dear father. I have gone with Hans to Helsinki by plane" "You know that I've always dreamt of visiting Helsinki" "I'll be back soon." "Don't be angry with me." "Your daughter Laila" "Attention please!" "We will soon be arriving in Helsinki from Helsinki there are fast and easy flight connections to " "Stockholm, Gothenburg, Oslo, Copenhagen, " "Hamburg, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, " "London, Luxenburg, Paris, " "Zürich, Mílano Barcelona, Malaga, " "Prague, Vienna, Budapest, " "Leningrad, Moscow and New York" "The fastest and easiest way to travel to Finland is by Finnair" "Attention, please!" "Fasten your seatbelts and extinguish - your cigarettes, please." "We are landing in Helsinki" "What a fine ship" "I am a Lapp, one man's wife" "Marry me" "Come... my love" "What?" "You are ready to travel." "Are you leaving, or what?" "I don't know yet I wouldn't let you go, if you want to stay with me" "I do..." "I do" "These happy months are for Laila like a wonderful dream" "She is in love" "They worked a lot and Laila enjoyed it" "She had a lot to learn everything was new" "Hans was a good teacher - and he said that Laila was a good pupil" "Hans taught and Laila learnt everything" "Quite everything, especially love-making" "Laila didn't only mature and develop mentally, - she changed also in appearance" "Do you know how young women get a mink?" "Just like minks" "Get off" "Go to hell!" "It's a matter of taste" "Aijai jai jai aijai..." "Hans!" "Must call the janitor." "This is broken" "I'll call when I go out to get cream from a café I forgot to buy some earlier, as I'm not using it myself" "That's true, they don't use cream in Lapp huts" "Hans, coffee is served" "Listen, Hans, what is this discovery of yours, - servant, model or lover?" "Knowing Hans, I bet she is a lover" "But Maija, you know this side of him better" "Where did you find her?" " She is a Lapp girl" "During the war my plane was shot down in Lapland" "The girl saved my life and I brought her here in Helsinki - as a kind of a reward" "And started to screw her here, as a bonus" "Lapp..." "Good looking." "Hot, or what?" "You try, satisfaction guaranteed" "Interesting." "I haven't had a Lapp before" "Feel free." "I've already had enough of her" "Gentlemen!" "You are forgetting one thing, asking me?" "You swine!" "Don't run after women." "Let them run after you" "You are nasty." "She doesn't know anyone else in the city" "Then she'll go back very soon" "Oh you!" "Nice to see you again" "Let's see." "There is a letter for you" "Looks as if it's from your daughter" "Here's the list, pack it all up" "Dear, darling father." "How are you?" "Hans and I are working hard" "We are still very much in love and happy" "We are engaged and will get married soon" "Do not worry about me, dear father" "Everything is fine with me" "Your loving daughter Laila" "Have you heard from Laila?" " Not a word" "Presumably gone back to Lapland and to daddy" "You were completely wrong about her going back" "Some expert on people, you are." " Oh well, the Lapps are different" "That's right, different mentality, different character" "What's happened to you?" "Are you in trouble?" "I just got fired" "Fired." "But that was..." "Well, it wasn't all that nice a job" "Dirty dishes wouldn't suit me at all" "Thank you, come again" "My life is quite nice, - although the business is going worse and worse" "But in this profession there's not much one can do" "With your face and figure you could charge a lot" "Do be quiet, Greta." "I want to do it my own way" "Yes, yes, but don't let too much time pass" "One has to use one's body as long as it attracts men" "And think, that figure of yours surely attracts them" "They are like hungry wolves" "They all want that one thing" "Men are shit, egoists, pigs, that's right" "They also have money" "It's only a question of taking it from them." "It's a revenge" "Although at times one feels like scratching their eyes out" "Bloody shits they are, I know them well!" "Phoo!" "Laila had little chance without qualifications,' - to choose her job." "Luckily her expectations - were not that great, either - and this meant that Laila didn't become bitter" "Look at that" "Don't rush, Ilkka." "Don't be so stingy with your goods" "Why don't you give some" "Ty, but not without my permission" "That's right, girl, don't give up!" "Well, what, fired again?" "No. I quit" "Nice looking girl." "Ask her to come here with us l don't think she'll come yet." " Ty, anyway" "Laila, come here." "It's great here." "Come on" "If the mountain doesn't come to Muhammad " "Muhammad goes to the mountain" "Will you have a little drink?" "May I take?" "By all means" "You have a nice watch where did you get it?" "From a man I see." "Couldn't we be friends as well?" "It's entirely up to you" "Just a moment" "Excuse me for disturbing you" "Here you are." " You'll get it back tomorrow" "Yes, yes, but get going now" "You just stay there" "Go to your own work, the boss is coming" "Who orders?" "I do piecework" "Do you want coffee?" " Thanks" "New boy, or what?" " Workmate he is" "Friend, I think... I was watching you from the balcony, how he stared at you I almost got angry." " Don't talk rubbish" "Look, a professional sees things" "Is there any post?" "Electricity bill." "Why doesn't you father ever answer your letters?" "I ran away from home." "He's never forgiven me" "Why did you leave?" "There was a man. I loved him and thought that he loved me" "But he didn't..." "Let's don't talk about that" "Oh, men are shits every one of them" "They talk of love, but mean sex" "And while we want love they want our bottoms" "Oh, they are sweet at first, then they turn their backs and sleep" "Cunt, that's everything for them." "That's about all they care for" "Does your father know you left the other man?" "I don't dare tell him I still write to him that we are happy - and that we'll get married as soon as we find a suitable flat I don't want to lie, but..." "One lie leads to further lies." "That's what happened to me" "Soon I was with a pimp, Joni, and ended up in his stable I had no idea what kind of a gentleman he was" "Good, good!" "You seem to be in love?" "Yes, it's true." "Life is worth living after all" "Darling?" "It doesn't matter." "What does it mean here?" "Love without money, it doesn't work" "Do you think that love fills your belly?" "And it needs filling" "Are you sure you'll be happy with that timing?" "Pekka, Pekka, Pekka!" "We'll go on our honeymoon on that" "That would be lovely." " I've always wanted to see new things" "This is the best holiday of my life" "Just you, the island and the cottage" "Such good luck to get this place" "Yeah, but the high rent goes with it" "Don't worry, I already earn as much as some - little bank manager, although I'm just an ordinary worker" "Don't forget that the holiday is over next week, Mr. Rockefeller?" "That's true and next week - we'll really start looking for a flat and get married" "It's not right that you stay with that slut" "She's good to me, Pekka" "She may be good as a person, but she's a prostitute" "There's the Stockholm ship, it's almost seven o'clock" "Time for sauna" "Here is 'vihta' for you." " Bring it here" "Please throw some water on the stones, as you're down there?" "Is that enough?" " Throw some more" "Enough?" "Thanks, enough, enough" "Now to sauna" "The temperature is perfect for you." " All right" "I'm going swimming now" "May I come in and get warm?" "I think I'll go in" "Hey, it's got cold!" "Now the other side" "Will you wash my back?" "Thanks, that's enough" "Thanks, this is good." "Now I'll have a swim" "Go on, I'll follow you soon" "Ouch!" "Your hand is frozen" "Pekka, Pekka, Pekka..." "Pekka!" "I'm the happiest girl in the world at the moment" "Hans really loves me more than anything - and I love him and we'll get married soon" "Oh dear father couldn't you forgive me?" "I wish you'd write a few lines and tell me how you are I still live with Greta" "She is nice, a good person and she works in a restaurant" "Your daughter, who misses you" "Good news?" " Indeed" "Laila is going to get married soon" "It seems that the man is, after all,... good I was angry with him..." "at first, but I'm happy now, - that things are as well as this" "She is my only child" "What then?" "Oh, well, how about a little drink to the good news, - if you have any." " Of course I have" "To Aslak's daughter" "Damn!" "The bloody lad!" "How about swimming?" " You go on, I have no energy" "Come on" "Don't stay in the sun, you've already been too long" "You may be right, let's go into the shade" "Hey!" "Pekka darling, another way" "That's right." "There we go." "At home and it's opening hours" "Quite a stud" "Come in, please" "Come right in" "Are you Greta, " "Laila's good and kind friend, - who works in a restaurant?" "Is this the kind of life you lead here?" "Is this a home or a whore house?" "Answer, woman!" "Don't yell, the neighbours will hear" "To hell with it, I shout as much as I want to, - and I don't care about the neighbours" "Do you understand, you bitch?" "Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you" "But have a look at this." "What's that?" "Answer me is my daughter a whore?" "Answer, damn you!" "Answer, woman if you want to stay alive!" "Help, help, help." "Help, there is a bad man here!" "Don't scream" "I'm not going to kill you... but Laila" "I'll strangle that whore with my own hands, - and then I'll kill that bastard Hans" "Where does the crook live?" "I don' know." " The police will tell" "Phoo, an old man harassing young girls." "Shame on you!" "Second floor." "Thanks a lot" "Come with me, and bloody fast." " What's the matter?" "Your father wanted to meet Hans." "I didn't know Hans' address - and he went to he police to get it." " Why?" "Nothing special." "He only wanted to kill him and you" "He is capable of doing it." "I know that I must get to Hans before he does" "Müller, a photographer." " Quite" "He lives in a studio." "The address is..." "(the door bell rings)" "You!" "You came at the right time I was just thinking of you, looking for a new model" "Something new again?" " It's my mission in life" "This is a pleasant surprise." " Hans, I..." "Pretty as ever." "Beautiful clothes suit you" "Oh, not now, Hans." "You must help me" "Of course, how much do you need?" " It's not about money" "Father is here, and he wants to kill you and me" "What makes the old man so bloodthirsty?" "He must have found out something about us" "But there's been nothing between us for a long time" "But father thinks so." "I have written to him - and told him that we are engaged and getting married I haven't dared to tell him anything else" "Bloody hell" "I'm not asking anything for myself." "I just want to protect you I don't want you to get murdered, or my father to be a murderer" "You know Aslak" "Aslak is dangerous." "What shall we do now?" "Aslak!" "This is a surprise." "Welcome" "Don't touch me you dirty crook, user of whores" "Where is Laila?" "Father!" "Is this really true?" "My own father is here" "Dear father!" "Oh, how I have missed you" "Is it really you?" "Look at me, dear?" "How could I ever suspect you?" "Forgive your silly old father" "Oh, father, all is well again and we are... happy" "Only you were missing and now you are here, too" "I am here, too don't forget me" "Don't be angry that I took her away I also love her so very much '- and would like to mary her" "How about a welcome drink?" "This is why I am here." "Isn't that Laila?" "These pictures have dishonoured me - and our family all over Lapland" "Them?" "We got a lot of money with them, Laila and I" "Shameless, selling my daughter's body!" "And then you just..." "laugh" "I understand, of course you'd be angry, if it were true" "But it is Laila" "Yes, but only Laila's face, not Laila's body" "I'm not showing my future wife's charms to the world" "Now I don't understand, explain" "All right." "First I select from my model photos one of Laila, - where her face looks best suited for the purpose - and then I take a photo of a professional model - with a suitable body" "Then I cut a part of Laila's picture, - showing almost nothing but her head" "Then it's carefully set in the right place - on the photo showing the nude model" "After some re-touching the picture looks quite genuine" "This is a photo montage and part of my profession" "I must have been quite stupid, - but I've become old - and Laila is my only one" "Is Laila here?" " No" "Really?" "The guard said that a woman collected her from work" "We were supposed to meet." "She didn't show." "Where's she?" "I don't know I think that you know." " l am not her guardian" "But you know." "Ouch!" "I was young once, you understand?" "But now Laila sleeps with her old man - just like in the Lapp hut" "You'll be sleeping on the sofa, Hans?" "And before I go I want to see you wedded" "I'm not leaving before then" "Good night" "You may kiss her" "I'm not really old-fashioned" "Do you want a kiss on the wedding day?" "What could we do now?" "Aslak wants a wedding" "We'll have the wedding for him." " Be serious" "It's impossible." "I don't want you any more" "Good, I don't want you either, at least not for my real wife" "What do you mean then?" "I got the idea last night." "We'll have a mock wedding for Aslak, - otherwise we won't get rid of him" "Then he'll go back to Lapland" "We'll wait a little, then you can write that we're divorced" "You can blame something." "We have time to think of it later" "Everyone has to be quite serious" "It's a serious thing for the old Lapp" "Who's the priest?" " Erkki, of course" "In your places, everyone." "Now it starts" "Straighten up, children, just to to please an old officer." "Music" "We are gathered here to unite two young..." "Is Laila at home?" "No." "She wasn't at work today either, and she's not here." "Where is she?" "I told you, I don't know." " Yes, you do" "The guard says you collected her from work I can get you to talk, if you make me" "Where is she?" " Don't touch me" "Unfortunately you made me do this" "I declare you man and wife" "Do not covet your neighbour's wife" "The spirit is strong, but the body is weak" "Just leave the bodily bits for us sinners" "You may kiss the bride" "Champagne, a toast to Aslak's only, darling daughter" "It's good to see happy, young people around - on a wedding day like this" "Marriages are made in heaven" "And now,... father of the bride..." "it's the custom" "Remember, my child, the basis of marriage is trust" "Don't betray the trust of the man you love" ", Father, the man that loves I really love him - and want to be true to him forever" "Oh, don't cry, no-o, this is the happiest day of your life" "This is the address." "A popular man" "One Lapp was looking for him yesterday." " Thanks" "Oh!" "Lapp dance" "Oh dear, father" "Let the old man cavort a little" "What's happening here?" "The wedding of Laila, our reindeer queen." "So what?" "My God, have you betrayed me like this?" "Pekka darling, go away, I'll explain everything, - but not here." " Explain what?" "No need" "You have betrayed your father, and you have betrayed me" "Be quiet." "Oh, go away I beg you." "If you love me, go away" "Love." "You disgrace the word, you whore" "Pekka darling." "Go now." "I'll explain later" "Do as my wife tells you." "Go." " Who the hell are you?" "Do you hear, I'm Laila's husband and master in this house" "You are what?" "Do you know?" "Laila and I have been engaged for a long time, - and we were to mary" "You were too slow." "Better luck next time I wonder who's going to come second?" "Let's see" "Stop that fighting" "Stop that stupid fighting." "Stop it!" "Laila and Hans are not really married." "You will get her" "Hans is my boyfriend, we set up the mock wedding - to fool the old Lapp" "Is that true?" " Yes" "Bloody hell!" "How can you do this to your own father!" "You whore, and I should have married you..." "Pekka darling, I'll explain everything later" "You are a big liar, I won't hear any explanations" "Go to hell, damned woman" "You really are a shitty bunch, all of you" "You deceived me but even worse is' that, - that woman I once called my daughter" "And the worst is this vermin" "Aiii!" "You are like a wolverine in my herd of reindeer" "You'll never destroy anybody's daughter any more" "This herder is sure of that" "You saw what I once did to the reindeer bulls" "Damn it, that's what I'll do to you now, you dirty beast" "I'm going back north now" "Never again will I come back south I don't want to see your faces here any more" "Nobody will laugh at Aslak twice" "Oh, don't leave me father, don't leave 'me" "Go to hell, whore." "I no longer have a daughter" "Problems, pretty girl?" "Boyfriend left you?" "Father as well" "Boyfriend problem can be solved, you being so pretty" "The world is full of men" "No point in taking them so seriously" "Days, weeks and months passed" "Places and Laila's life changed in Joni's merciless hands" "What an awful place." "Why did you bring me here?" "Who is this performer?" "Do you know?" "First I thought that I knew, long, long time ago I was wrong." "You are right, this is an unpleasant place" "Let's go away from here" "This is so commercial just like going to the 'butchers" "Almost, but one finds delicious things in butchers, too" "And right now I miss something special" "Gentlemen, I have something very special for you" "Okay!" "A real Lapp and a real Swede" "You here..." "What the hell are you doing here?" "Good old stud, or what?" "Yes, I used to be." "Very good one, too" "Here I am, as you wanted me" "Don't look like that." "Didn't you always say that I was gifted" "You wanted to teach and I wanted to learn all, - quite everything, when I was an ignorant youngster" "Now I get higher education in a brothel in Hamburg" "Don't drink like that" "I'm only drowning my sorrows." "This is my only pleasure nowadays" "All right, to business" "Kom aalskling, ja ska vara snaall mot dig" "With music or without?" "Some like it with lights on, others without" "How do you like it?" "Some like to play with mirrors" "Perhaps you, too" "Come here, just like before you get it for nothing, provided you can do it" "My God, don't look like that I don't blame you alone, all you men are alike" "Too often you just play with women, - you play, get bored and leave" "You don't understand that we women want love" "Dark and blonde, good and bad, we all want love, - real love and you 'just want sex" "You teach us to want" "When we want ourselves we are bad women" "How can one understand you" "If a man wants and the woman doesn't give, it's not good" "If she gives, she is bad." "That's male logic for you" "But one thing is for sure, without men, there'd be no whores" "It's men who teach us to whore and then, - abuse and despise us" "Laila, you have a guest in the room next door" "They say in the hotel he's here every morning this time" "Shit." "Joni!" "Joni guessed immediate Jy, - that Greta was again taking his best milk cow" "Now to Laila, I want to mislead Joni, - so that Laila will get rid of that hyena" "The plans will backfire if Joni gets a hint of this" "Your father, Aslak, has died I have no father he cursed me" "Aslak was one of the richest reindeer kings in Lapland" "He left you his whole fortune, - thousands strong reindeer herd" "You are a very, very rich woman now I came to get you home" "Laila found the lone Jy grave of Aslak by the fjeld" "Father, forgive me" "By the side of the grave Laila understood, - that she doesn't belong in the south, - in the civilized world, - but that her home is Lapland" "Subtitles Timecode Finland Oy"