City of Honey Masters (Meemeistrite linn)

Tallin film

THE CITY OF THE HONEYMASTERS

Scenario & direction Heino Pars Text writer Jüri Tuulik

Art director Halja Klaar Camera Arvo Nuut

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I want milk! Milk! Milk?

Only newly borns get milk.

You're already 4 days old so you will eat bee bread

which is made from honey and pollen. Don't want to!

Who are you? Me? I'm your wet nurse.

I want my mommy!

You silly bee!

There are many of us but we have only 1 single mother.

Including me there are 50,000 of us in this hive.

In spring hundreds of bees are born each day

so by summer there's 80,000 of us.

Shush! The little ones are sleeping. - I know they're sleeping.

They will sleep for 12 days in a row and awake as adult bees.

Good night!

Hello! - Hello!

Congratulations! - Why congratulations!

Because today's our birthday.

What are you doing?

Look at the work calendar. For first 2 days you'll be a janitor.

Janitor? I Don't feel like it.

Mother's coming!

Look, in my jug there's an egg. From that a new bee will be born.

Mine doesn't have one.

You left your jug uncleaned.

Whatever!

Lazy as a blowfly. So, I'll be a wet nurse now.

for 1... 2... 3... 4... 11 days

You call that dancing?!

I'll out-dance you all!

Where now?

Not good. This is going to mean trouble.

How so? Didn't I dance well?

With dancing bees show each other where the richest harvesting area is located.

They won't be happy about this!

I'm out of here.

He fooled us. - Let's give him a hammering!

Cheater! Let's show him!

Charge!

They're gone.

There are 100,000 honeycombs in our city.

Pure honey!

1 bee will fill 4 to 5 honeycombs during her life

In human tongue that's "2 grams of honey"

Stop it!

You'll swell and burst from all that knowledge. - Knowledge is an invaluable asset.

Where do you think you're going?! The soldiers will sting you to death.

Let me go!

You, speedy Vilgas! - Don't you see, young Põnn?

It's the new mother's cradle.

Quickly! Let's get out of here!

Now we're going to be wet nurses