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those glasses almost make you

seem like a civilized man.

In truth you are an invalid

who has lived way too long.

You are afraid of the peace

because it will take away -

your entitlement to all of

your murderous acts.

If we continue eastward.

we'll arrive at Pivkivi...

When I get home to my woman. I'll

keep the door locked for a week -

and won't open even if

God himself comes knocking.

Are you all right?

What did you say to Musko? - I saw

that girl. She stood this close!

What did she say when she got out?

- You're seeing things.

It's not the same girl.

I never went back there.

I never let that girl out.

We have to turn back.

We need to let her out.

We're almost at our destination.

The Russkies would hardly agree

to turning back.

As soon as we get the horses

from Pivkivi. I'll turn back.

Before making that mistake.

pull yourself together.

Who built it?

It just stands there alone.

Glasses.

Who's in charge here?

- Father.

Go get him.

So the war still continues

in the south?

The war was long.

but now it's over.

We belong to the Royal Border

Commission of the Russian Emperor -

and the King of Sweden.

- What's the name of this place?

There's no record of a village on

the northern edge of the swamp.

We are not on the northern edge.

We're in the middle.

In the dead center of the swamp.

What's that?

A map.

It shows how God sees the Earth.

And that?

- A border roll.

Information on the villages by

the border. on taxes and such.

Why?

So we know if we are

Swedes or Russians.

Is the world big?

- Big enough.

I haven't been there. Only here.

Goddamnit. boy!

- These need to be washed.

On whose orders?

- They're dirty.

Erik!

Strange boy.

- Not for this village.

Have you ever seen

peasants this clean?

We can get food here

for the journey back.

I'm not leaving the Russkies now.

This village is a crucial point

for the border.

There will be new wars.

- This dirty war was mine.

All those lives were lost

for nothing -

if we give away territories

to Russia at this point.

Marking the border is not about

redeeming lost lives.

You are thinking about the lands

we were promised as a reward.

Damn... f***...

Semensky was right. I am half blind.

Way too old to practice

the one profession that I know.

I want to be a better father

than ours was.

I will get some land for my family.

This is my last chance.

Seventy-three.

I have done much worse things

than leaving some girl in a cellar.

Not all of us have.

- You can turn back. Right now.

Will you sign the border agreement

for me?

Knut...

The first thing you learn when

working for the King is to forget.

To forget?

You killed the girl's father.

I was defending my life. And yours.

You saw that axe.

No. I didn't.

You have always studied in peace

far away from all this.

But meanwhile

here in your homeland -

we woke up to war every morning.

Now that you're finally here -

Bear this task

honorably with me to the end.

I promise I will not let

anything bad happen to you.

Mother?

Ivan! Semensky sent me to find you.

We have food.

You've been paying taxes to Kajaani?

- Or Solovetsky?

No one ever came asking.

But you people are Christians?

Are you followers of Luther -

or do you belong

to the Russian Church?

Well. since we don't have a church -

we don't have a priest

to decide that.

Who does the sauna belong to?

Who built it? - F*** the sauna.

Swedes or Russians?!

Maybe it is easier

if you gentlemen decide.

You gave orders to mark down

how many villagers live here.

Seventy-three people.

Including children. women.

the old ones and all.

An awful lot of people.

Where are all the other children?

- I'm the only one.

Sit down.

Sit down!

If you can tell us

how long you've had this village -

and where you originally came from -

I'll make you an official

border man of our commission.

We'll draft an appointment letter.

As official as it gets.

I don't know.

But if you promise to take me along

when you leave... - Hell. yes.

I know where there are some

papers like that.

In there?

Go home before someone finds out.

It's in Russian.

It would be important to know

what's written here.

More importantly. Semensky mustn't

find out. Get the Village Elder.

I couldn't find the Village Elder.

- Well. Roukkula. whose are these?

Never seen them before.

Are you out there?

Let me out and I'll tell you.

It's getting dark. You'll be

stuck there all night. old man.

We didn't do anything to them. - Did

Russian monks build this village?

We found these houses empty.

Didn't come across any people.

All that was left were the monks'

robes. scattered all around.

Some thought that they had

just abandoned their faith.

Others said that someone

had taken them away.

Who did the people think

had taken the monks away?

Tell me.

Whisper it and you'll get out.

It's me.

Don't come too close.

Too late for hindsight.

This will end badly for us -

just because you left

that girl in the cellar.

Why did you lock her up?

To protect her. From you.

Oh. it was me who lusted after

that titless scrag?

You were the one imagining -

how it would feel to rape a young.

innocent thing like that.

That's the ugly truth the young

professor wanted to lock away.

Is it really wise to go back

and let a thought like that out?

Have you seen our girl around?

- That boy is a girl?

She doesn't have anyone

to play with -

so she sometimes

pretends to be a boy.

Semensky?

Captain?

It is perfect. Save your souls.

I found this book in our cabin.

I don't know if it's important.

It's in Russian.

I understand.

I will let you know.

Because no other solution

can be found -

we have decided that the border will

run straight through the village.

The sauna will be the official

boundary mark.

We shall carve our coats of arms

on its walls.

Come with me.

Only the leaders.

In our old village the soldiers

came from both sides.

Did their plundering.

and even worse.

So you found your peace in

the heart of the swamp?

No. We found something else.

Ever since the day we got here -

not one of us has really

dared to live.

Or to die.

Our girl was born

on the journey over.

She is the last child

born to our village.

I still don't quite understand.

- Superstition.

Finns like to bathe their newborns

in the sauna. And their dead.

There you can wash away the past -

and the sins you have committed.

Roukkula dug his eyes out.

- Why?

Before that he had chewed

his tongue into shreds.

Knut has found Rogosin. Dead.

Musko says that Rogosin used

his own blood as ink.

What do these say?

Rogosin seems to think

he's locked in a cellar.

Like a small child.

There's food in the cellar.

even something to drink.

But Rogosin drinks his own blood.

because he's afraid...

What is he afraid of?

There is someone with him

in the cellar.

Rogosin is afraid that this someone

will turn to face him.

That's that.

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