Vorona i lisitsa, kukushka i petukh Page #2

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You talk a lot. My ears are ringing from

all those words. I don't understand it.

She hasn't got much fish ready.

The winter will be hard.

We're just extra mouths to feed.

We have to go quickly.

My eyesight's fine.

I started wearing glasses

to look more serious at university.

My family had difficulty

getting money for my studies.

In Stockholm they

look down on Finns...

...so I started wearing glasses.

I never thought they'd save me.

She hasn't got much hay ready.

Maybe just enough for the deer. They

can eat moss even under the snow.

They should be

taken to their winter pastures.

Yes, be off, chatterbox!

Let me help!

Don't come near me

or I'll get wet and want to shout!

She's angry.

The girl's smitten.

What?

I said, she's smitten.

I'm making a chimney for the sauna.

I'm covering this with clay.

I'll throw it in the fire. The wood

will burn out and leave the chimney.

A chimney.

We'll boil or fry them,

then eat them.

You want to go

to the other world?

Drink the broth of toadstools.

Those will just make you sick.

Can't be bothered?

Don't. It's easy.

Don't worry!

I'll cook them.

The sergeant in my battalion

cooked them wonderfully!

Gerlost's eating mushrooms

to commune with the spirits.

Maybe he's a shaman or a wizard?

Let him rest. He's still weak

after the concussion.

I'll do it myself.

I think you're better at other things.

I wouldn't mind if you threw me

down on a deerskin, lad.

I've already forgotten

what it's like.

Don't kid around. I haven't

seen a woman in two months.

Now even a hunchback

looks like a princess to me.

You've got tender hands.

You're not used to men's work.

You probably only know

how to kill.

That's not work.

It's just big children thinking

that taking a life...

...lengthens their own.

Put the barrel back afterwards.

Ma'am, I need salt.

I'm not mad enough

to eat mushrooms!

I see. In the house.

Scum!

The water brought a letter.

The political officer informed on me!

Snot-nosed kid!

Hadn't served a week

at the front, and he informs!

I was like a father to the boy.

He writes, "I inform you that

I do not share the views..."

The water washed out the words.

The water in the stream's good.

If you put laundry in it,

the next day it's clean.

Not much flour left. I added

some wood, and it's delicious.

He says my poems are rubbish!

Jealousy, maybe?

Did he write anything in his life

except to inform on people?

Sergei Yesenin himself

told me to write.

My dad was a taxi driver.

He was driving Yesenin one day

from the train station to the hotel.

I was a boy. I was sitting on the front

seat reading out my poems.

He said, "You need to write."

He even signed his photograph.

Your wife? She's beautiful.

The soldier men took

my husband four years ago.

See, it's Yesenin himself!

I wrote poems about the beauty

of nature, to stay sane at the front.

God knows what he saw in them.

Don't worry, you're still alive,

and your wife's very beautiful.

Just don't eat mushrooms,

or you'll go loony.

The mushrooms will be ready soon.

We can eat. But we need some salt.

Yes. Mushrooms are bad.

They can be poisonous.

Here I am chatting away.

Words won't feed the deer!

You've ruined the iron.

I brought that barrel

from over the hill!

It's a bit rough, but we can wash.

It's already hot.

Gerlost, come and wash!

You get sick because you

scratch your skin off.

My husband washed

in a sauna in the city.

I barely cured him, and he

never got sick before that.

Even taking your rifle

to the sauna?

Get in.

Not bad, although the draft

takes the heat out fast.

I don't like saunas.

I like Turkish baths.

You understand?

Oh, come on,

she's not bad as a woman.

Her kind is good at housework,

and they keep you awake in bed.

We had a supervisor just like her.

I invited her to the cinema once...

...but she didn't come.

Then she got married to a friend from

work, Viktor Bychkov was his name.

Don't know what she saw in him,

he was ugly as sin, to be honest.

I don't understand, Gerlost.

Don't you like the sauna?

I'm no specialist.

I've only read how to do it.

I haven't been lucky with women.

Married twice.

Both times it was a mess.

What are you so serious about?

Wash, because you smell

of war and death.

A crow flew over the field.

It saw a herd of deer.

It began to count, one, two, three...

Counted until daybreak.

Then it tired and crowed out,

"You're so many, and I'm but one!"

It crowed and went to sleep.

Let's go.

Let's go. Don't worry.

Though I do cry out when I like it.

Damn!

Don't!

Sorry, it was a bad dream.

I didn't mean to scare you.

Feeling bad?

It's because you ate mushrooms.

I'll make an infusion for you.

It will drive the badness out.

I liked you straightaway.

But you chose a fascist.

He's younger, but he's still a fascist.

I'll make an infusion from herbs.

You'll feel better.

I must work, or I'll be like

a fox in winter, eating turds.

So you enjoyed it with him.

I heard you moaning under him.

It really hurt me to hear that.

I wanted to kill both of you.

Forgive me for those thoughts.

You brought me back to life.

Rest. I've got a lot of work to do.

You took my heart straightaway.

I told you, Gerlost...

...there are no bullets.

Are you jealous

because she chose me?

Don't be.

She just wanted a little happiness.

To hell with you! Live.

You're still young.

You haven't lived at all yet.

And I'm tired.

I'm tired of fighting.

My soul's been emptied by the war.

I'll go and cut some wood!

I should go.

It's an herb infusion.

Drink, Gerlost.

What do you see in that fascist?

He talks a lot, and you

can't understand a word.

The mushroom poison

will leave your body...

...and you'll feel better.

Tastes nice.

Eat, I want to cry out at night again.

Don't give me that look,

or I'll be tearing my skirts off!

Oh, wow.

Did you drink the infusion?

Go over there!

Go away!

You poisoned me!

Go away, this isn't the theatre!

There's a pit over there!

Didn't you see where I went?

Go away!

What are you looking at?

You're a wild man, Gerlost.

The infusion worked.

Not used to that many mushrooms.

This is interesting?!

What are you embarrassing me for?

Bring everyone to watch!

Bring the dogs and the deer!

Let them all see. Madness!

We have to fix the barn.

You're both big.

I have to feed you with meat.

Much better, thanks.

Well...

Thank you. I'll be off now.

You're big and eat a lot...

...but I can't kill a deer.

There are too few as it is.

Goodbye.

Thanks for the bread and salt,

although you've got no salt.

You have good eyes, Gerlost.

But don't eat those mushrooms.

It's good that we say goodbye.

I'll go.

I can't take it anymore.

It's good here, but I'm going mad.

I must be out of touch with life.

Did he go

to get mushrooms again?

Let me help.

Where should I take them?

- Where are you taking them?

- There.

I just brought them!

Thank you.

You really are ugly.

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