ÅDALEN 31 (1969) WAS DIGITALLY RESTORED
BY THE SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE IN 2020.
STARTING MATERIALS
VIDEO: 35 MM ORIGINAL NEGATIVES & 35 MM DUPLICATE NEGATIVES
AUDIO: 35 MM MAGNETIC TAPE & 17.5 MM MAGNETIC TAPE, MONO
IN 1931, MANY OF THE FACTORIES IN ÅDALEN STOOD IDLE
WITH NO SMOKE IN THEIR CHIMNEYS.
SYMPATHY STRIKES WERE GOING ON FOR THE WORKERS AT MARMA,
WHERE THE EMPLOYER WANTED TO LOWER THE HOURLY WAGE
BY 4 ÖRE FROM 1.18 TO 1.14.
DURING THE DEMONSTRATION THAT FOLLOWED,
FOUR WORKMEN AND A GIRL WERE SHOT DEAD BY SOLDIERS.
THE FILM IS DEDICATED TO THEM.
Stop blowing.
Now it's coming!
Here it comes. Where did we start?
There.
Have you washed properly, boys?
Yes.
- Your ears? - Yes.
- Aren't you late? - No, I don't think so.
Stop blowing, I said.
Stop larking about, boys.
You'll only burst the buttons.
Stop it, boys!
It will only make you hungry, and then you will eat more!
Harald! Your shirt!
- Bye-bye! - Bye!
Åke, the other ear.
Yes, that's all right. Bye-bye!
- Bye. - Bye.
You can fool her, all right.
I showed the same ear twice.
See how dirty the other one is?
This will make a good support for the wing!
- Good morning, sir. - Morning.
Good morning, Kjell.
As long as Mother has a bar of soap, Martin, no one need feel sorry for us.
As long as we can keep clean.
Clean floors and walls.
And clean heads.
- Bye. - Bye.
Welcome home!
Oh, how lovely to be home again!
- Hello! - How nice! How are you doing?
How are you?
- I was top of the class in geography. - Really?
- Jump! - Come on, jump!
- Lousy. - He was lousy.
Good.
You didn't get far.
Knocking my wing off like that.
- Get it, go on! - Hurry up, before it gets warm.
Get a move on, Sölve!
- Come on, stretch a bit, Sölve! - You've got to earn your second sip.
They've held out a long time, but they're starting to give in.
At times, I can't help admiring them.
- Not much further. - Just a bit more!
- Just a bit more. - It's getting warm, Sölve.
You can reach it!
It was water.
Come on, I think I've a drop at home.
He was thirsty, boys.
He was thirsty, all right.
- Do you recognize it all, Anna? - Oh, how lovely to be home again!
What a summer it's going to be.
There's no sense in getting it together. There isn't a chance.
This damned cub here plays nothing but jazz.
He doesn't practice properly, can't play one right note.
It's no good, see.
Do you only practice Negro jazz at home, eh?
You have to pull up your socks, Kjell, if you are going to be in this.
Once more, from the beginning. I'll count.
Three, four...
Give a hand with the wing!
Fine airplanes, these. The newest kind.
Skål!
You're too kind, Harald!
You need it more than I do.
Christ, you're right.
What day is it?
Thursday.
Have you thought that if this was Sunday, what a nice day it would be?
Fine weather.
And I'm wearing my Sunday best.
- How long have you guys been on strike? - Ninety-three days.
- And you? - 112.
But at Marma, they've been out for 25 weeks longer than us.
If you think of that...
Spin the propeller more.
Go on, fly!
- You can't fly against the wind. - Course you can, Kjell said so.
I think he's broken his leg.
Åke, what's happened? What happened?
Perhaps he's broken his leg. We don't know.
Did you jump from — Have you broken your leg? There?
Åke, do you know what a broken leg costs?
I flew! I flew for a whole minute!
Where has the lid got to this time?
The bass.
The baritone sax. Solo.
Now the last trumpet solo.
Now all together!
Here, lads. Here, lads, take a look at this.
Nice, isn't she?
- Fancy being allowed to show so much. - Why, you can see the lot.
- She's quite bald all round her twat. - She's shaved, isn't she?
How the hell do they do it?
It must be done with brush and soap.
- Ordinary? - Yes.
- You can see the lot. - Not a hair left.
Come on, lads, let's take the chorus again.
Have a better look later.
When the light filters through the branches...
It was... Look here.
Do you see how different they are?
- It's the same — - It's the same motif but it's much richer.
And how the light pours down but in different ways.
- Yes, I see. - You see there?
- They're different artists who have done... - Yes, Monet and Renoir.
Two Impressionists.
They devoted their whole lives to trying to find a way of capturing the light.
Look at this!
- Is this Renoir? - No.
- Renoir. - No, he's called —
- Renoir. - No, Rer-noir.
- Rer is the way the French say it. - Rer...
Rer-noir, with a burr. Rrrer-noir.
Rrrr-noir. Do you pronounce the "E" more like "er"?
Well, not "E" exactly. A shorter sound.
Er. Rer-noir.
Pierre Au — A — Au —
Aguste.
- Pierre-Aguste. - Auguste.
Rrrrer...
- It's difficult. - Yes, it's difficult, but try.
- Can you speak French? - Yes, a little.
I think you could learn very quickly too.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
That was splendid!
Pierre-Auguste...
Renoir.
Rrrr... Rrrrer-noir.
And burr!
Oh, look at this! Isn't it lovely?
They are having a meal.
Oh, how I long sometimes to go down there, just to eat.
They don't eat just to satisfy their hunger, they eat as a pleasure.
They do it so beautifully.
They have wine, fruit and salad.
Look!
- That's Renoir too. - Yes, that's Renoir too. Say it again.
- Pierre-Auguste — - Auguste.
Oh, yes, Auguste.
Pierre-Auguste Rrr-ernoir.
Hello.
You're late.
I stayed talking to Hedvig for a while.
Then you might as well have stayed there altogether.
Have they re-upholstered the sofa in the music room yet?
How do you know that?
Elin does their washing.
Yes, they have.
Does she play well?
Yes, she does.
Has she beautiful hands?
Is anything ready for me to hang up?
You can take the mats.
All right.
Did you get a paper?
Yes, here.
There! Frankenstein in London.
- Horror film? - Yes.
Huh, you can see how they have done it.
That one. If I Were King. That's a talkie.
Or that one, Spanish Nights. That's a talkie too.
- Spanish Nights. No. - But it's a talkie.
- How do you know? - It says right there.
A film from "the land of serenades and castanets."
- That must be a talkie. - I want to see Frankenstein in London.
- Do you think it's really scary? - Yes, of course. It's a horror film.
Yes. Let's go to that then.
Nisse and I are going to cycle in and see Frankenstein in London.
Are you worried, Daddy?
Daddy!
Are you worried about something?
Yes, the wood pulp.
I have wood pulp lying on the quay.
A boat can come now to take it to America, but...
the men who are to load the bales on board, they don't want to do it.
Is it about money?
Yes, it's always about money.
What are you going to do then?
That's what I don't know.
I say, Kjell, how was it now with those zones?
What zones?
The ones you were talking about.
- Erogenous? - Yes.
But I've already told you...
I already told you.
- There are certain parts of the body... - Yes?
...that are more sensitive than others.
Supposing you shake hands like this.
Don't grip so hard, but take the hand loosely like this.
And when you have finished shaking hands, you can sort of stroke it like this.
Does that make them horny?
Sure.
Just the hand?
Sure. Hold the palm like this, see...
- And then? - Then, there's this...
Bend of the arm, collarbone, round here, an erogenous zone.
Ear, erogenous zone!
- Is that good? - Yes, very good.
And the bend of the knee, erogenous zone.
- Just that? - Yes.
What did you say they were called?
Erogenous zones!
So I start with the palm of the hand.
Yes, you start as soon as you first shake hands.
Yes, of course. Well, so long.
- Fine. So long! - Be seeing you.
- Hello. - Hello.
How is Frankenstein doing?
All right, I suppose.
- Look! - Let's take that one.
Yes, let's.
Then maybe the fish will eat it, and we'll get a fish.
Yes.
There. Look!
That's enough.
- Is it? - Yes.
Doesn't look too good, this.
- That's enough. - Oh, yes, that's enough.
Now I'll just get a rod.
There are nettles here.
Yes, there are nettles. I'll carry you, then they won't sting you.
Let's go, eh?
Yes, go fishing.
Yes. Fishing.
There.
Now, off we go fishing!
- Not there either? - No.
- Not even a little? - No.
- Do you feel this? - Not much.
This, then.
Hmm. Just a little.
- Must you keep chewing the whole time? - I'm always hungry.
- Can you feel this? - Not much.
Can't you feel anything?
No.
- Nothing? - No.
- Does that feel nice? - Yes!
It's all wrong.
What?
- No, nothing. Doesn't that feel nice? - No.
- Does this feel nice? - Yes.
Hell, it's all wrong.
- Just a little here, eh? - No.
- Only here? - Yes.
That damn Kjell!
Look! Look at the cork!
A nice one. What a treat we are going to have!
Shall we wait for Kjell?
It's his own fault.
We'll have it while it's hot.
Ooh! Doesn't it look lovely!
- Here she comes with the fish. - Yes.
You can start eating straightaway, while it's hot.
Father?
Twice he got a bite.
Is it good?
- And Nisse. - Let's compete?
- Now it's my turn. - Hands up!
- Why, whatever's that? - What the hell...
- What has Kjell got? - It's bread.
Bread?
No, it can't be, surely.
Bread!
- Christ, yes, it is bread. - Look, Martin. It's bread.
- Where did you get it? - Oh, I just got it.
It's bread.
A yard of bread. Can I have a yard of bread?
Can I have a yard of bread to go with the fish?
And a sip with it?
- Kjell, where did you get it? - Just got it.
Oh no, come on, tell us.
Where did you get it?
He's a sly one, Kjell. Kjell, where did you get it?
No, he's a sly one.
- ...which breed do you prefer? - Not Pekingese.
- You like a big dog, eh? - Pekingese are the only possible breed.
St. Bernard, then?
No, give me one of those lovely soft, shaggy English setters...
What about poodles?
I say, Nisse, they're starting soon.
Help yourselves.
Karin?
- Skål, Elin. - Skål!
Skål!
That was strong.
That was strong, Father.
Now it's starting. Now it's starting.
Nisse, aren't you going to ask your mother to dance?
What?
- Aren't you going to dance? - Yes.
It goes without saying, now that it's come to this, now that thing has gone so far...
I mean, it's obvious that it's not only us,
the heads of industry, who are to...
But we must be loyal. The workers must also be included.
Yes. Yes, of course.
Both parties must share the responsibility.
Yes, absolutely. That's what I think.
We must raise our wood prices, of course.
And then we must naturally increase the rents for the workers.
I don't understand how we can...
We have shareholders' meeting and we have boards that we must be answerable to.
Not forgetting all the shareholders.
All the small shareholders with their savings who are in on this.
So I can't see anything else for us to do but raise.
Those 4 öre. That's nothing to make a fuss about.
What do you get for 4 öre these days?
4 öre. That's nothing.
That's no shell.
What did you say?
- Hedvig is playing. It's Chopin. - Chopain.
Chopain.
The boys may not be asleep yet.
The bed creaks.
- Let's lie on the floor. - Yes.
As we did that time. Remember?
No, no, Harald!
We can't afford it.
I can pull out. I'll pull out when I come, you needn't worry.
No, Harald, no, no!
We're drunk.
Relax your whole body.
Sit still and keep quiet. Like that.
Feel, feel how your muscles are getting slack and heavy.
Your whole body is getting heavy.
Your eyelids are growing heavier and heavier.
Heavier and heavier.
I'm starting to get power over you.
Sleep.
Now I place my thumbs on your eyelids.
Now I'll count up to ten, then you'll —
No, we'll just count to five, then you won't be able to open them.
One, two, three, four, five...
Now, when I let go,
with all your might and main, you can't open them.
Now I have power over you.
You feel the suggestion.
The suggestion...
Sleep, sleep.
You're starting to get sleepy.
Sleep, sleep.
Your eyes are now shut tight and you are incapable of opening them.
You are passing now into a state of deep sleep.
When you wake up,
you will not remember anything of what has happened in the interval.
You will not remember anything of what has happened in the interval.
When you wake up,
you will not remember anything of what has happened in the interval.
Your memory of this time will vanish utterly.
Sleep, sleep soundly, vanish, vanish...
Your memory will vanish.
What is it?
Don't look down, Anna.
It's not ugly.
I think it's beautiful.
It's getting bigger as I hold it in my hand.
It's because the blood — It fills with blood.
Blood flows into the erectile tissue.
You can read about it in any medical book.
You have a medical book, haven't you?
But that's how it's meant to be, isn't it?
Yes.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
A packet of Broadways, please.
- There we are. - Thanks.
Thanks.
I think we have got some guests here in Ådalen.
You needn't worry about that.
You had measles when you were five.
Will you get me Härnösand 387, please.
PLEASE CONTACT THE GOVERNOR.
COUNTY GOVERNMENT BOARD, HÄRNÖSAND.
It's not certain there are so many here.
Hi, lads, listen to this.
Who — Who the hell has given orders for this?
But you don't know yet.
What's the damned boat called that we're to load?
- It's called Milos. - Milos. What sort of boat is that?
But what the hell are they doing down here?
What the hell do they want the police for...
Why are the police here?
What kind of men have we got here?
Who are you guarding here?
Who are the men down here now?
- I give no information here. - I was only asking politely.
Who... What sort of people are they? What are they doing here?
Do they live here? Or what the hell...
Yes, they live here, but I've no call to give you any information here now.
- Guys, let's... - Where are you from?
What are you doing here?
Get out of here. Go home.
Come on out and we'll talk about it.
We're starving to death!
You cowards!
Get out!
Just wait, tomorrow when you come out to work, you'll damn well see who's...
We are doing an honest job. We've a right to live here.
I'm going to see that law and order...
Who are these bloody upper-class?
Upper-class police, that's what you are.
- But we've been put on to this job... - Clear out of Ådalen!
I suggest we arrange a proper meeting.
Let's have a meeting.
- Let's arrange a meeting. - Go home!
It's not quite in tune, is it?
No, not quite.
Keep on.
- No, the B is not quite true. - No, not quite.
Can you get it a little better?
Yes, I'm satisfied with that.
He's been trying to starve the Marma workers out
and make them give in and agree to his unreasonable demands.
He has not succeeded.
He has forced his office staff
to do the work of our factory workmates at Utansjö and Sandviken.
Now he has gone still further.
He's brought professional strikebreakers here to do the dockworkers' job.
I ask you all,
is this strikebreaker scum to come here and take our jobs?
Yes or no?
No!
Shall we demonstrate for our rights and march to Sandviken?
Yes or no?
Yes!
Then let's go!
We'll march in fours.
VICTORY FOR THE MARMA WORKERS!
Scabs go home! Scabs go home!
Get on out of here you damned...
Winch him up!
Strikebreaker!
Bring the scab here! Down with the bastard!
Now you'll get what you deserve...
How do you know?
I was sick this morning, and I've looked it up in our medical book.
You were sick this morning?
Yeah.
That's because...
That's because our blood groups are different, Anna.
Winch the bastard up!
Bring the bastard up!
Let him hang there a while!
Bring the bastard here!
- I haven't done anything! - You haven't? You've taken my job.
Bring the scab bastard here! We'll show him!
String the bastard up!
- Throw him in the water! - In the water!
Is the master at home?
The master's busy. He's not to be disturbed.
But I must see him. It's urgent.
I can't help that.
You can't see him and that's that.
If you've a little soup left on your plate,
you mustn't tip it towards you, but away from you.
But I think you already know this stuff. There...
You may think it's a trifling matter with etiquette,
but it's to help people and put them at their ease.
- Mommy... - Yeah?
Can I speak to you, please?
Why, of course. What is it?
Well, you see, I —
I was reading that book —
- What book? - I'm going to have a baby, Mommy.
Who's the boy?
Kjell.
Have you told Daddy?
No, not yet.
Don't tell him now.
We mustn't worry him.
Let's put the flowers here on the table,
and you can do the glasses later.
- Where are you taking him, Harald? - To tie him up.
The bastard's from Kramfors.
You'll be sorry for this, Harald!
- Marianne. - Yes?
Anna and I are going to Stockholm for a few days.
We are going to see Granny.
Yes, ma'am.
So will you please look after the master and see that he gets something to eat.
Yes, ma'am.
It's nice here.
Pretty wallpaper.
He was a great hefty bastard, the one who dragged me out of the box.
He was also bleeding...
Then he kicked me and pulled me down off the boat.
Do you know where they've taken my mate?
I don't know.
I mean, I've got to earn money.
My wife has a bad heart.
Do you know what digitalis costs?
Who's going to see to the wood pulp if we don't? It might lie there rotting.
Business must be kept going.
Down with the scab!
- Out with him! - Look under the sofa.
- Where is the scab bastard? - No, he's not there.
Guys, check in there!
Look down there, under the sofa.
- The bastard isn't here. - Where have you hidden him?
I've had him here.
And what of it?
He's a scab.
- Should I let a man bleed? - We saw him through the window.
- But what were you going to do with him? - What do you think?
- Take him to Kramfors? - What do you think we do,
with someone who takes the bread out of our mouths?
- Well? - Our bread.
That we have to eat and live on.
What do you think we do with the likes of them?
Huh? What do you think we do with the likes of them?
Well, what were you going to do? You were going to show him in Kramfors.
What the hell do you think it'd look like then?
What do you think will happen when they see them?
How long have we been here?
- Out of work — - I know we've been waiting a long time.
We've been waiting a hell of a long time.
- But if we wait just a little longer — - What the hell are we to do?
If we wait a little longer and talk it over, perhaps that will help.
Who the hell talks for us?
There are those who talk for us. Haven't we a trade union?
- For how long? - It's in Stockholm.
We've a trade union here too that can talk.
Trade union!
How long?
We're starving!
You'd better watch out!
Watch out!
- So you mean you are going to — - You sit here bandaging up a scab,
- and you're supposed to be our mate? Eh? - Yes.
And then you go and say that —
You say that we've —
- I think — - That we've someone to talk for us.
- I said — - There are those who talk for us?
I said I think it's bloody unnecessary to show the others
that we make trouble like this.
It just makes a lot of bad blood and we don't know where it will end.
Who speaks for us?
You're just avoiding it.
Just like them that talk in Stockholm. Right, guys?
I want to live well.
Don't you, guys?
Sure do.
- What is it you want, did you say? - Live well. I want to live with bread.
- With bread and money. - Don't you think I want to?
No, you don't want to when you've got a scab here.
- So you think I don't want to, eh? - No.
That bastard could damn well have bandaged himself up.
You're a scab too.
What the hell do you mean by that?
- Are you a scab? - What do you mean by that?
When I'm on strike,
- you think I am a scab? - Are you on strike? That's what I ask.
You must know that I, Harald Andersson, am on strike.
You can't be all that damned stupid!
Then why do you help him?
I've explained over and over again.
I've stood here explaining a dozen times.
Do you want me to go over it again?
And yet, you say they're going to talk for us, eh?
And we're going to talk ourselves, but not with stones in our hands.
- It's nothing to do with that — - Then what?
- There are people who send them here. - They wouldn't dare after we kill ten.
Are you sure?
- Am I sure? - Are you sure that —
Are you scared of a damned scab like that?
No!
It's not just scabs we should fear.
There are people who've sent them here.
Well, maybe you're right, but how the hell are we to solve it? Eh?
We will solve it at the table.
Table? Can you even afford porridge?
We have negotiations, and have had,
- and we'll go on with them. - How long, eh?
- Well, it'll take — - It sure does.
How long have we waited?
There's a chance.
There's a chance, eh?
And here we are, starving to death.
We can hold out another week.
Another week!
And then another week, and then a month and —
Yes, it's possible.
By that time, we'll all be dead!
What's left?
If it goes on like this, then let me tell you,
- it's going to be something hellish. - I think it's going to be hellish if we —
Do you know how many people here in Ådalen are not satisfied with their existence?
- Do you? - I know there are many.
- Yes, there are many. - I know there are many.
Anna.
The train leaves in half an hour.
Will it hurt, Mommy?
No, my darling. It's only a routine examination.
We must find out the facts.
It's a damn disgrace. Now they've put them up on the pile of stones.
You don't say?
The hut.
The scabs' hut. We must put up a road block here.
They're coming from here. They mustn't get down to the hut.
Do we treat them so badly?
Can we pay them more?
They've no schools and no education.
Wouldn't it be an insult to those who have educated themselves?
Christ, Olle.
You want to have a say in who's to stand at your machines.
That's the right they're trying to take from us.
Sune, you've three calls to make.
You must ring the county government board.
You must ring Sollefteå.
You must ring Stockholm.
Härnösand... the county government board.
There comes the bastard!
Your dad helps scabs!
When will Mom be home?
We've time enough.
Look, Anna, how they're behaving.
It will be nice to get away from here.
You're right.
She has beautiful thighs.
But be careful —
- ...the steam? - Yeah, you could say that.
You morons!
Dad!
Let go of my friend!
- Get the bastard! - Get them, boys!
Resist!
- Come and help them! - Get them, boys!
Come and help them!
Come and help me!
Come and help them!
Don't give up, boys!
You good?
- Have you seen the washboard, Martin? - No.
Mother will come get you.
- Anyone here got a mirror? - Yes.
Can I borrow that a second?
Go to hell, you little bastard!
Go to hell, boy!
We've won! We've won!
Some soldiers, huh? Can't even stand the sun.
Oh, damn.
Look what they've done.
- Hell! - By Christ!
Even worse!
This is what they do.
- Are there any more? - Are there more?
The question is, how much are we to stand?
They've sent strikebreakers here,
and when we protest against them, they send troops to protect them.
We've turned the other cheek. We haven't got a third cheek to turn.
I know that the trade union council is negotiating now.
But so that they'll be quite clear what we mean —
I know that we haven't the right to make decisions
until they have had their negotiations.
All the same, I suggest a general strike in Ådalen
until the scabs and their military lifeguards have been sent away.
Is that the decision of the meeting?
Yes!
Let's go to Lunde!
Is it the meeting's decision that we go to Lunde?
- Yes! - Then we'll go.
Fucking right!
Get a move on.
Nisse isn't here. Where is he?
Where's Nisse?
Kjell, go and fetch Nisse, will you?
Nisse! We must play in the band now!
We're going to Lunde! We're going to march to Lunde!
- Now? - Yes, now. Hurry up!
Won't you ever learn to be punctual?
... maintenance...
OFFICIAL TELEGRAM
... of...
... order...
... in...
... Härnösand.
"County police commissioner S. Pålman, Lunde.
For the maintenance of order and safety,
the county government board finds it necessary to prescribe that,
until further notice, loading work may not be carried on
by the workers quartered at Lunde,
either at Sandviken or elsewhere by the Ångerman River.
The county government board, Härnösand."
Well, I'm damned!
Do you think they'll come?
Not bloody likely. They won't dare.
Halt! The road's closed!
Halt! The road is blocked!
We've the right to walk on a public road.
Make way! We're peaceful demonstrators.
Christ, I helped to build this road!
Out of our way!
Forward!
Away with those damned horses! Get this damn rabble out of the way!
Move aside, we must get through!
Get the strikebreakers out here!
They're shooting!
They've shot Sölve!
They're firing live rounds!
Calm down! They're blanks!
Forward! We have to push through!
They've shot him in the belly!
They've shot Nisse in the belly!
Comrades, forward!
Halt! In the name of the law, stop!
Else I fire!
Don't be scared! Forward!
Keep marching on the bastards!
Halt! In the name of the law, stop! Else I fire!
Fire!
Bergström, Bergström, how are you? Where did it get you?
Into the ditch!
Cut it out, you bastards!
- I think he's dead. - How are you, Nisse? Are you alive?
Stop, you bastards!
Stop!
- Come here, Olle! - Stop it!
He's bleeding out!
Come and help us here! Help us!
Water!
Bergström is bleeding out!
Do you know what you've done, you swine?
Stop it!
You've shot my Dad!
Stop!
He's bleeding to death!
- Where do we take them? - Into the house!
Eira! Eira!
Put him down here!
They're murderers!
I don't want to die.
You're not going to die! There's enough dead!
More sheets over here! More sheets!
God fucking damn it.
Damn it!
There you go, boys. Now you see what we're up against.
Give them some water before they die.
He's bleeding. Are there no doctors?
- Is there more room for casualties? - We can't have them out here.
I want to speak to mother!
Mother's coming, Mother's coming soon!
- Mommy's coming. - Hold on.
I don't want to die...
Who else?
Nisse's dead, Harald Andersson's dead...
there are five wounded. Sven Johanson...
What bloody swine!
We'll rouse the whole of Ådalen with a strike!
Give it a rest, will you?
Put your rifle down, for fuck's sake!
Why have you killed my daddy?
Get off your horses!
- Hello! - Come, let's go inside.
Huh? Why?
Let's go inside.
- It's, er... - Well, out with it!
- Well, you see, er... - Kjell!
- Mother! - Yes?
It's like this... You see...
What are we to do?
What does one do?
Granny would have known.
I've never really thought... We seemed so young...
Should we take his shoes off?
We must take his shoes off.
He has a hole in his sock!
There was no need for him to have a hole in his sock. He could have taken...
I had a clean pair here!
SPECIALIST IN WOMEN'S DISEASES
When we get to Granny's, we'll see that you have a rest, Anna.
Do you know what you are, Mommy?
You'll understand this better later on, Anna.
What a lot of people!
There must be a big fire.
Four dead, five wounded in Ådalen riots after military opened fire.
To Bantorget! They've murdered my mates!
They've murdered our comrades!
I can't sleep in there.
I can't sleep either.
May I lie down here?
Don't want me around anymore? Yesterday you sure did!
I've always been told I don't have an ear for music,
but I know the sound of gunfire.
And I don't like it!
Yes, we did the shooting. But who the hell paid for the bullets?
Have you even thought about that? Civilian bastard!
Where is she?
Where is she? Huh?
- She's not here. - But she was here just now.
- I saw her a moment ago. - Kjell, you must believe me.
She's not here.
But, I saw her. There... She was there.
- She was there. - Let me look at your hand.
She rang me up just now from Stockholm.
She's not with child anymore.
I knew nothing, Kjell, I didn't know anything until now.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Not Re-, Rer-noir!
Kjell, I found out about it too late.
I knew nothing.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
- Hi. - Hello.
Did you see Bergström?
Did you see him?
Oh, yes.
I saw your dad too. Do you know what he said?
He said, "Talk."
What he did now...
Did he talk?
Was your dad innocent? Was he?
Answer! Yes or no! Was he innocent?
Well...
Very wise. You know that?
It'll soon be morning. It will soon be morning.
What's your name?
Kjell.
Well, Kjell, you know what it's all about.
Do you just want to avenge your father's death,
or do you realize what it's all about?
Do you? Do you understand everything?
There are many helping us.
Now it's a general strike.
Everyone's in it. But before that, they doubted. Did you?
Look at me, for Christ's sake. Do you dislike me?
You are fighting for the same thing. But it's too late, you see.
Now that the strike has come, now everyone is together.
All are together, do you hear? All the whistles are blowing.
I think there are thousands.
I wish it were thousands all over Sweden. Don't you?
Yes or no? You're here, for fuck's sake.
We have to teach ourselves. We've got to get knowledge.
We must have knowledge when we get power.
We must study too.
THE VICTIMS' FINAL JOURNEY
It is so quiet in this house.
Must it be so quiet, because we're in mourning?
Mommy, must it?
We can talk, can't we? Even if we are in mourning?
Look at the mess the place is in. Have you seen the windows?
They are filthy!
Have you seen Martin's socks? Great big holes in them. This won't do.
You were supposed to do the washing yesterday at Berglunds.
We can't afford to grieve like this, Mommy. It's no good! We must get money.
We can't afford to grieve.
We really can't.
We must start working, Mommy, we must get money.
I'll get a job all right.
This old shirt, with Daddy's blood on it. How long is that going to hang there?
But it can be used! It can't just hang there.
It can be put to good use. Mommy!
Can't it? What good does it do hanging there?
Here! Here!
Lift! Out with the bed!
Come on, get to work!
Come on!
SO THE WHEELS BEGAN TURNING AGAIN IN ÅDALEN'S FACTORIES.
THE SHOTS FIRED AT LUNDE
HELPED TO PUT THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT OUT.
SINCE THEN THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATS HAVE RULED THE COUNTRY
ALMOST WITHOUT A BREAK.
A WELFARE STATE HAS BEEN BUILT,
WHICH HAS MADE SWEDEN AN ISLAND OF PROSPERITY IN THE WORLD
EQUALITY HAS NOT BEEN ACHIEVED.