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Louise!
Louise, where are you?
Louise!
Rurik, have you seen Louise?
You will unfortunately have to quit your job, Vivan.
You may stay in the servants' room until we have found a new wench.
- I am not a wench. - Excuse me, what did you say?
Madam can call me housemaid or whatever, but I am not a wench.
Does it matter, considering the circumstances?
You have deceived me and my wife.
The situation could be solved if you found an abortionist.
That is a no, I presume. In that case there is not much we can do.
You must leave before the holidays.
There will be no payoff. There are enough decent servants anyway.
- I have a man who can provide for me. - Excuse me?
Pardon my suspicions for HIS serious intentions.
My man is a good man!
Enok Kajander. I came to meet my fiancé.
And to exchange some words with director Lilliehjelm.
Sir should know, that my fiancé has a right to get her salary.
The Helsinki workers' association will see to it.
I do not fear any workers' associations.
We have many poor people in Helsinki and their strength just keeps growing.
Are you threatening me?
Louise!
Wake up, Louise!
Please take your music sheets with you, dear Louise, so you can practise.
Lu, don't forget Endymion. Will you be reciting it at the poetry evening?
- Hurry up, Louise! - Why do I have to go?
- Bring suitable clothes for the dinner! - Boring dinners
with boring people. Boring walks and tennis.
- Behave now. - Siggan, could you help!
We'll be right behind.
- Where is young Mr Widing? - Waiting at the gate.
Marie, Olga?
Eric Widing, good day. Eric Karl.
Nice to meet you. Good day.
Eccu, you remember Louise?
Let me introduce Eric Widing, my school friend.
We did meet a couple of years ago.
Are you joining us at the dull tournament, that my sister will win?
- Is Miss Louise herself not playing? - She is just envious of Sigrid.
Hurry up, Louise.
Call me Lucie, all my friends do.
Look.
Rumour has it that your sister has not lost one set.
That is not correct. Three years ago she lost
a whole game in Nice, the semifinals.
The winner of last years ladies' tournament traditionally meets
one of this year's new challengers.
That will be Miss Sigrid Lilliehjelm versus Miss Lucie I.
Miss Lucie L.?
Louise?
From here on I will be a dressed as Miss Lucie, if you permit.
Game to Sigrid Lilliehjelm, leading the set 4-0.
Love - fifteen. Miss Sigrid Lilliehjelm has won all the points so far.
- Hello. - Hello.
- They are worried about you. - I just wanted to be alone.
- The others don't seem to understand. - What about you?
I think you were magnificent.
- It is palpable. - What is palpable?
You are as enchanted with Lucie Lilliehjelm
- as most of the young men in Helsinki. - You too?
Hardly. There are only two ways to have a woman.
The first is a promise of marriage, which does not suit me.
What remains is a business transaction.
I know where we can meet willing women. Interested?
You are good.
- Are you in a team? - I'm too young.
- You will grow. - Are you a kind of a rich man?
- You could say that. - My father says you can't trust them.
Do you want to be photographed?
- Allan! - Father!
The Germans are training Finnish servicemen to help us win the war.
Let's go to Germany when school is over.
- To the jager battalion. - To Germany, that would be great.
Then we could chase away both Russians and socialists, for good.
Try this.
Is it not banal falsification of history
to portray Jesus as a socialist?
Of course, Zweygberg.
Nevertheless, one can not ignore the pathos of righteousness,
or the permanent presence of proletarian instinct in his sermons.
Therefore it is not entirely wrong to call the New Testament
the first socialist manifesto in the world.
- What on earth is proletarian instinct? - To roll in one's own excrement.
So it is God's will, that we share everything?
We already do.
The question is, how we get everyone else to see it has to be that way.
He seems sympathetic, don't you think, Zviga?
Symphathetic? Are you becoming a socialist too?
Maybe he is just a plain humanist. Or maybe you don't know that word?
Your humanism means rejecting eager suitors at most.
Those poor things just don't see the charitable action of it.
As a transaction, father has chosen Lars von Nottbackin as your fiancé.
Father appreciates your commercial value.
Father can't sell something he doesn't own, and he knows that.
A Zolaika cake.
- An Alexander cake. What do you want? - Nothing, please.
And a mocha-meringue.
The Tsar has been unseated!
The Russians have unseated the Tsar.
Long live Finland!
Hurray!
Now we won't have to swallow our anger anymore.
Now we will chase the Russians out, for good.
Allan mostly has to care for himself. He won't say where he's been.
I'm afraid he's on the streets. I don't want him in some bunch.
It's called a gang. They don't accept small kids who can't fight.
- Your revolution rubbish is to blame. - I can't be blamed for that.
- God knows what will happen next. - The fight for justice has just begun.
There'll be more strikes in the fall. The upper crust won't rule anymore.
And now the Russians will help us.
- Happy birthday, Lucie! - Cheers!
Congratulations.
I'm sorry I did not get You a present.
- But Your father... - Please, call me by my first name.
Your father asked for a family portrait. I can make you a copy, if you like.
- On real platinum paper. - Are you a real artist?
- I would hope so. - Then you cannot give things away.
- An artist always takes a reward. - My father wants me to...
- Is this your new Kodak? You just press here? - No, don't.
- I still have things to arrange. - Do you only take portraits?
No, I am going to be a documentarist.
And?
I want to capture that what lives and rushes. The human.
Come!
Show mel!
- What about the portrait? - We can take it later. Come!
We'll travel together in Europe after the war. I won't stay in Helsinki.
Immer so dunkel, immer so nass. Man kann ohne Licht nicht leben.
- What is that? - Mother used to say about Helsinki,
that it is always so dark and wet, but one cannot live without light.
Let's go. The family portrait.
Come on now!
- I think it is too risky. - Not in Italy.
- No, but on the way down there. - Not if I have an escort.
- No language courses this summer! - What shall I do then?
- What about university? - In Helsinki!
And you, young man, do not give my daughter any ideas!
- Eccu is innocent, quite the contrary. - Thank you for breakfast.
Sit down and wait until everyone else is finished.
- Act like an Lilliehjelm. - Unreasonable, according to father.
Good morning. We have a commission to look for arms stashes.
What commission? We do not have arms.
Then you won't mind, if we look on our own.
Only one hunting weapon.
Krogell, go with Lilliehjelmin to get the hunting weapon. And you,
you will show Marjamaki the way to the boathouse.
You will show Halme the way to the tool shed.
- Can I offer you some cake? - No, thank you.
- Would that boy like a piece? - Thank you Miss.
Cedi.
- Don't do anything rash. - Shut up.
Father said that there will be no shooting.
There won't be.
Senator!
Someone like me has to fear both sides.
I am a sorry coward, that cannot arouse anything but hatred in all.
If they knew me well enough, they would compete about garotting me.
You see, that is the law of war and the human mind.
Ivar Grandell, are you there?
I am Enok Kajander. I know you are on our side.
The revolution needs you.
Seek me out if you change your mind.
Ask for Black Enok.
Oh.
What is it?
The Bolsheviks nationalize companies when papers become worthless.
Then you get disgracefully removed from the railway company.
Put your foot down! Not just anyone can take the job
that only father is qualified for.
- Get off father's back! - You are just as indifferent.
- Don't you understand the severity? - And you do? You only worry about
the curfew, that hinders you from gallivanting in speakeasies.
Papers!
The correct word is identification.
Yes, it is me.
- I am looking for Cedric. - He left days ago.
There are rumors about White free corps outside Helsinki.
- Do you know if Cedi has joined one? - He has probably joined them all.
- Is it important to you? - We have to do something.
Anything is better than hiding out like rats.
We cannot stay in Helsinki, everything is closed.
- I have to go. - Wait!
I am going to Bjorknas. Come with me.
- Farewell. - Eccu!
Be careful.
Promise!
It is impossible to cross the ice here.
It is better to start in Taivallahti, and then go out behind Seurasaari.
I am sorry, but I will not go. All resistance is useless.
There are too many Reds, and the Russians help them.
- We must do something! - Eccu, it is pure suicide.
Halt!
Halt or I will shoot!
To Louise Lilliehjelm after my death.
- Stop! - Don't shoot! I want to join!
Zviga... He.
I was looking for Cedi, but I...
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