The Midwife Page #3

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Fear not. I promise to get

you out of there, Wildeye.

Haataja had a different job.

Believe me.

Tell me about your mother.

My mother Annikki and my father Fritz

Angelhurst met in Petsamo.

Mother gave travellers ant baths -

ate raw birds and fish.

Mother died giving birth to me.

Father never forgave me.

My father was killed, too.

But he was not a good father.

You are hot-blooded.

Just like me!

I can still taste you.

Have you eaten fruit? -What?

You smell fruitful.

I love you.

Greetings from the open

Foaming sea

The shore's nowhere in sight.

The wind howls wild

Even a sailor takes fright

When the stormy weather blows.

I keep thinking of you out here

Ah ah, thinking of you

The sparkle of your eyes of blue

And your golden curls.

And I sing my song to you

Can you love me despite

what happened -

if it is true?

I will. I can't do otherwise.

We're leaving.

You want to? -I do.

Listen carefully,

I've arranged things.

Rovaniemi for two days.

You are safe, you are a Finn.

You just have to trust me.

Remember the Dead Man's Cabin.

If the war ever separates us,

wait for me there.

It'd be good to live there.

-I promise to come back.

I love thee.

Please come back.

They're from the camp.

Jew, soldiers, politruks.

Are you involved in this? -No.

But you are, and Johannes.

They used to kill and bury you.

Now they dig up and destroy

corpses to leave no evidence.

Insane business!

It's the Devil's doing, Satan's work.

The times are changing.

You think it won't touch you.

But you may come to a sad end.

Wrong things happen

at the camp. -True.

You can't accept it.

Your job is just

to help those women. -How?

Any way we can.

God gave you a gift.

Use it!

They poison the prisoners at night.

Gdel makes tests

with the unborn babies.

And I see how they screw the women.

By force, without leave.

Some prisoners are given injections.

Straight in the back -

in the hip, the buttocks.

Sometimes I think-

someone has put

in the drinks I give -

cholera, or some other plague.

They died so fast.

I was-

chosen by God.

I was-

A child of God.

And now I am an Angel of Death.

You think you're better

than we others.

You aren't.

Russian prisoner, number 1322.

Malnourished, won't talk.

Anaemia:
iron deficiency.

Premature childbirth.

Did the foetus die? -It did.

You do talk.

And Finnish!

Good. What's your name?

Heta.

Are you Finnish?

From Kirkkoniemi?

You're Heta! I know you!

Jouni's been looking

for you like mad.

I'll send him a word right away.

He'll come to get you. -Don't.

Don't tell him I'm like this.

I'll get you into other ward.

So you don't have to be

here in the Cowshed.

But Jouni's been looking

for you like crazy.

Slop!

Finnish woman is

among the prisoners.

A Finnish woman is

also among the prisoners.

Heta Knepps.

You may not take Finns.

We don't know where she's from.

She speaks Finnish.

And you do tests on her.

You can't put her in the Cowshed.

We won't. For now.

She can be a control case

for the rest of the scum.

Our tests benefit

the whole of humanity.

Think about-

what ails mankind.

Cholera.

Typhus, disease.

The plague.

We fight them here -

with our small contribution.

Can I move her or not?

One more thing.

You lied to me.

You never were at the other camps.

No one lies to me

without consequences.

Get out, please.

You'll be transferred tomorrow.

I'll send a word to jouni.

He'll come to fetch us.

Sleep now.

And stay alive.

Open the door!

Get in! Faster, you swine!

Get in! Shut the door!

Get in! Faster!

Shut the door!

Today, our delegation in Moscow -

signed an agreement

on the armistice -

with the Soviet Union

and the United Kingdom.

A serious matter is

that we must disarm -

the German troops in our country

and hand them over to the Allies.

Despite this, we must quickly -

demobilise our forces.

The terms of the armistice

contain 23 separate points.

Did you hear? Peace.

To be correctly understood...

Put the Russians

in the prison barracks.

The women from

the Cowshed into the yard -

the Finns in rows in the middle.

All documents in the hospital

must be burned.

Get the Finns to help you!

Move it!

God damn it! This is bad.

The Germans won't bloody

leave without a fight.

Get in there. jouni will come for

you. Meanwhile, stay out of sight.

They'll find me here.

-They won't.

That's for the drugs and

injections given to the prisoners.

The Germans fear

they'll catch the plague.

Lights out!

You know where the documents are.

The tests. Destroy everything.

Give me the key to the safe.

I don't have it.

Give me the key.

Locked.

Take the safe outside

and blow it open.

You stupid woman.

I wont do Satan's work

for you any more.

I wont do Satan's work

for you any more.

Fetch explosives and blow up...

-I understand.

I won't do it.

Do your death work yourself!

I wont do Satan's work

for you any more!

Do your death work yourself!

I won't be part of this war any more.

You hear? I won't be part of it.

Kill them yourself! I won't do it any

more! Do your death work yourself!

I wont be part of this war.

By height order.

All prisoners in rows

by height order.

We will leave tomorrow.

I'll come for you in the morning.

You're under arrest!

For court-martial!

This woman is guilty

of aiding a prisoner.

We made a head count.

The Finnish woman you helped

escaped last night.

I know nothing of it.

I must punish you.

I could kill you.

But I don't want to.

Johannes will avenge me!

Johannes -

is either a prisoner or dead.

The Russians are less

than 10 krn away, advancing fast.

I am sorry.

Are you all right?

Your back looks bad.

We must flee. Give me my glasses.

We don't have much time.

Or they will kill me -

and burn you in the storeroom.

Wait here, take out the gun.

We are escaping now.

Help me escape.

I'm not afraid of guns any more.

Three years in this hole.

I will help you.

He's alive.

Kill him! Kill!

I'm not a butcher.

Let's go!

PARKKINA/ PECHENGA HARBOUR

THE ARTIC OCEAN - FINLAND 12.9.1944

Get into a shelter.

I'll find us some food.

The hell you're doing here?

Things got hot in Finland-

trying to find Heta

in the camp and the ports.

Russkies came with such force -

they almost got the Fritzes crying.

Didn't give me the good eye, either.

Is it you, jouni?

Heta?

Yes.

I've been looking for you.

Come closer if you promise

not to look at me.

Hair's gone.

-Don't ask.

I won't, if you don't want me to.

I've been running everywhere -

and you are here.

Sometimes things turn out well.

This German boat goes to Narvik.

I paid them to take you to the cabin.

But be careful.

Life is cheap now,

don't trust anyone.

I'll take Heta to safety,

and come for you.

Who is it?

Who is it?

What are you afraid of'!

You're fine.

Love sure tastes sweet but -

it hurts my soul to leave you,

Wildeye.

Carve a pair of skis for me.

For the winter.

I wont! You'll die anyway.

If I die, I die.

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