Ravens (Korparna)

MARCH 1978

Hello?

Hello?

What the hell was she doing down here?

Maybe she got out of her own accord.

Not likely!

People are capable of anything.

There's no room.

Alvar said some farms are clubbing together for a potato planter.

- Did they ask you? - No.

And if they ask it's no.

Alvar said it saves more time than you think.

What does he know? He's sold it all off.

Well...

That's the spring sowing almost done.

Tomorrow I'll put in the last barley over on the leasehold.

Couldn't we take a few days off when it's done?

Have a break from everything.

A trip to the sea?

Time off? There's more than enough to do around here, in case you're worried.

We're never finished here.

Thought I saw you this morning.

I was down among the reeds. I heard the great bittern.

The great bittern?

Not bad.

It lives right in the middle of the reeds, like an old hermit.

Do you know about that?

There's room for a few birds in this old head.

Is that decided, then - you'll join me tomorrow morning?

You'll learn how to do the sowing.

I can't. I have homework.

I thought you might enjoy coming outwith me once in a while.

Well, I can't just sit around here all day!

That was nice.

- I'll help you with that. - Please, you stay here.

Feels like...

like the warm weather will hold.

Days are getting longer.

You get a lot done before twilight.

- Twilight? - Yes.

'Which twilight are you talking about?

Well...

twilight.

Do you mean civil twilight?

When the sun is 6 degrees below the horizon.

Or nautical twilight - 12 degrees below the horizon?

Or maybe you mean astronomical twilight 18 degrees below the horizon.

Isn't it dark by then?

Dark?

No.

You can still see where the sun set.

Well, in that case I guess I meant...

the first one.

Then you have to ask yourself: What is the horizon?

Is there more than one?

The horizon.

Is it an ocean?

Is it a mountain?

Is it a forest?

- Don't you want to go home either? - 'Why wouldn't I want to?

- I was just thinking... - Thinking!

Too much thinking's bad for you.

Bet you don't know what a real cunt looks like.

It's not like in the books at school.

I heard there's a Stockholm girl coming here.

We'll soon cut her down to size.

We need to check over the fences. I can't do it by myself.

Ever tried standing in a doorway

and pressing your arms against the doorposts?

Your arms rise by themselves when you walk away.

Rather...

funny, really.

You push as hard as you can and count to forty-nine.

Then...they go up over your head.

If you bring them down they go back up again.

It's like an invisible force.

- I've never tried it. - No?

It's never too late. And as funny every time.

It might be just you left in the end.

Thanks.

Father sends his regards.

He's always liked you as leaseholders.

He's getting on now.

He's not always aware of the world around him.

We're heading for a brighter future with modern business methods.

This is Carsten, the new supervisor.

He's to bring some stability to the manor farm.

We have plans for the future

that'll be profitable for both big and small land owners, including you, Agne.

Please help yourselves.

You've got some woodland adjoining the farm.

If the properties merged, operations could be made more efficient.

So that's why you're here.

The land is well suited for new plantation.

Not a lot of rocks.

Not a lot of rocks!

'What's so funny?

I don't think you understand.

We're a profit-making business.

Your farm isn't run very efficiently.

My son... My oldest son will be taking over.

He'll decide.

I think he's got big plans for the farm.

If a leasehold isn't well managed or doesn't meet our requirements,

it could be terminated. Do you realise that?

There's beauty all around

Now summertime is coming

When grass and grain abound

Rejuvenating sunlight

Awakes a world once dead

The rays of sun approach us

And everything's reborn

Think you've got summer holidays now?

Guess what this is.

Don't you want to?

It's for you, Klas.

I thought you might like it.

As a souvenir.

See you by the barn when you've eaten.

You do understand that I need your help now?

The hay needs to be gathered before the storm comes.

See that stone wall over there?

Klas?

Your great grandfather built it.

He was always at it and still he never finished.

Year in year out.

- Sheer bloody slavery it was. - What do you want us to do about it?

Fly up to Heaven and thank him? Do you even remember him that well?

You'd only just started school when he drowned himself.

You think I imagined that as well?

You don't know what it's like for me. You never did.

There's thunder in the air.

- Maybe some rain would clear the air. - And ruin the hay?

- That's what you're wishing for, isn't it? - Enough!

- Enough of that talk. - Really?

To show what happens when we call each other,

I start by dialing a number.

The telephone needs to be powered by a low-voltage current.

When I dial the digits on the rotary dial, short pulses are generated.

Let's both of us go. It'll give us something else to think about.

Down the telephone lines to the telephone exchange.

The telephone exchange connects thousands of calls simultaneously.

The electrical current sends the ringing signal down the line

to the telephone whose number I'm dialing.

That telephone could be in another city

or even in a different country.

I know her very well Better than any other man

I know her very well I know just how precious she is

So put your tie straight And I'll get you up to date

On what she will be like Always in your life

She's great

She is really a catch

That girl is a catch

That girl is a catch

If anyone knows what she's like I'm the one

That girl is a catch