A Time of Roses (1969)

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A TIME OF ROSES

Do you believe you could interpret
the face of your neighbor?

Even if you touch the skin
you'll feel wrinkles, muscles...

They are twisting the facts.
- True, it is a political question

Historical research, science
in general, pastime -

perquisites, everything has been
put to serve one single purpose

The thing which may seem
unbreakable, is often a great lie

A small part which may seem
very important -

may be completely insignificant
in relation to the wholeness

We often think, that...

We know nothing about her yet.
Not even Raimo.

She died in 1976 -

Eight years before
you were born

So this fracture is thought
to be older, -

caused before the fall
from the train

As you know, we can't reveal
this information to the public

Of course not

The case is old,
there's no need to cause -

fear and panic in the society

Of course we will take the 08-group's
opinion into consideration

Just like everybody elses

Without forgetting
the responsibility for the entirety

Are you still worrying about it?

Rumors are different
than the official opinion

Rumors...

She experienced a typical
Finnish hero's death; -

fell drunk from the train, -

in the middle of the night,
wearing stripe pyjamas

(choir)
"This is the last battle -

we shall join the front line..."

Only a few were able to realize
the actual state of the things

For instance the attitude
towards the thoughts of Karl Marx -

who lived in the 19th century,
was strongly emotional

One and another were swearing
allegiance to his name, -

while others were cursing

We can ignore this whole mess of
thoughts as a joke, -

of which history offers
numerous examples

The 1960's and 70's meant -

the strong rise of politicizing

This was seen in the Western World -

as a tremendous increase
of socialistic ideals

During that period -

Europe saw the most violent
protests of the century

The civil w*r was about to
break out in America

Maybe as a result of this, radical
right-wing groups were formed -

both in Europe and America

All these different political
groups said to be -

more democratic than others

Therefore the whole unsettled
period was named -

''The Decades of Democracy''

While the rest of the world was
going through a difficult crisis, -

people in Finland, among the few
privileged countries, -

lived off the fat of the land

In the late 1970's the developing
countries suffered from, as they called it, -

"The Great Hunger Years",
which lasted about 15 years

The politicians in power -

handled the situation poorly

The hunger-driven troops in
Africa, Asia and -

South America, tried to reach
the Nordic welfare states

We can be amazed, -

that the situation didn't
lead to global w*r

The wars were limited to
local conflicts...

The whole period of time with
diseases and migrations -

was a peculiar mixture of new
and fear-ridden Middle Ages

Even in many industrially
developed countries,

large scale disorder broke
out from period to period

Some people came up with
the conclusion that -

a foreign w*r was the only
way to unite the nation

Berlin crisis in 1982, -

which began in East Germany -

and the conflict between China
and USSR a year later -

brought the world dangerously
close to total w*r

The Cuban crisis, which people were
horrified at exactly 50 years ago, was -

according to the researches,
a point of departure -

to the assassination of president
John F. Kennedy, -

was a children's game compared...
- That is not correctly presented

The actual wars and killings
were focused on poor countries

It was clear that these kind of
immature political crises -

had to be stopped, and focus on -

removing world hunger

The disagreements between
socialist and capitalist countries -

started to ease off. Freedom
and humanity... - Bullshit!

Not freedom but a new kind
of spiritual oppression

As a result of the development,
the society reached -

its present formal state.
We can be proud of it!

Regressive politics have
been put aside -

from the way of righteous,
knowledgeable scientists

The old class division is gone -

due to the increase in social maturity

Violence has been
replaced with liberalism

Liberalism creates comfort, -

safety and freedom

In other words the power
is used by the experts, -

so-called unbiased officials,
who are so distant -

from the people that it stinks!
There is your freedom!

Panu already let
himself be fooled by Raimo, -

something I
understand well

I personally have
nothing against Raimo

And there's nothing crooked
or base in our methods, -

you can rest assured of that

Has the information arrived yet?
- It's been promised for today

But what is it? - All they had.
She was no celebrity

You know I want
a modest, ordinary person

As we expose Raimo, -

we'll expose the whole
Historical Institute

Nothing like in that...

What was it now?

History of the Kennedys.
- Two years ago

Your memory is
excellent, darling

It was a wonderful
show. - I guess so

It's in the practical level -

where things are truly
revealed, like in perks

But it's easy to
mislead there, too

What happens with you is
the same thing that happens with us, -

and happened last week
in Argentina

Raimo is just one of many,
but we must begin somewhere

Yes?
- It's Pepe Lahtinen

Could you come to my room?

I've got the statistics for your
special exhibition - it just came

Oh good. I'll come right away

There it is

Everything goes through here

And what am I, a computer?
- I know

She's there again

Start videotaping!

Howdy! - At last!

Here's all we had in
our archives

Born in Kuopion
Maalaiskunta in 1946

Whoah, she'd be...

Yeah, father. Baptized!

Funny, baptized!

Saara Maija Katriina.
Moved to Helsinki in 1965

Married in 1968, to Matias Turunen.

A divorce...

Worked at a dru... What?

as a saleswoman in a drugstore

additional income as a model

Pretty ordinary

What would you like to eat?

Died getting hit by a car in a movie
sh**t in May 1976

Got something good?

Calories 30, 25, 100...
- Two of those!

This? - Exactly

You won't regret it. - Thank you

As a 16-year-old won a competition
organized by a women's magazine -

and got to visit Helsinki
for a few days

She got to meet celebrities, -

visit a theatre and
the premiere of some movie

Hey! "Now I know what it is
to be close to celebrities!"

"Will you return some day?
- I sure will!"

This is exactly what
you are looking for

How'd your wife
recover from the mess?

Don't get your hopes high yet

Here you have a
brilliant possibility -

to frame a new, helpless
victim of history

And to jerk
some tears

Come on now

We don't KNOW
anything yet

We stick to the facts

Go on, answer it.
It must be the Central Archive

Central Archive. Additional
information on Saara Turunen

Connecting to the
search unit

I'm sorry, all fingerprints from
1973 are faded

Wrong humidity
in some old office

Do you need the photographs?
- Photos, everything

Today, for us -

progress is -

the augmentation of achievements

For them progress was
questionable and uncertain

Give it to me!

Overpopulation, -

novel weapons of
total destruction, -

looming famine -

meant for a person
like Saara Turunen -

a threat mixed with fear

Where does this last
image come from?

What's the origin of the last image?
- News-photo archive

She's appeared in newspapers later.
I wonder what's the reason

Politicians dictated the
direction progress was to take

But what did the ordinary
citizen feel and experience?

What was the good of society and
where did the good of individual stop?

It might not be so
easy for us today -

to comprehend the problems of an
ordinary person like that, -

for who among us is
ordinary these days?

Class distinctions have been
eradicated, everyone -

participates in the society
according to their nature

This prosperous
societal field -

doesn't exclude anyone anymore

That's why we have also
gotten rid of fear

Did Saara live here long?

She was here for
at least two summers

I don't remember those
days so well, -

I was so young

Saara must've only seen
a little girl in me

She had recently divorced
when she moved here

I think she forgot to take
those pearls with her

Was Saara like a part
of the family?

She was a golden girl

She died in a traffic accident in 1976

Two years before my mother

My mother liked her so

Did you meet her anymore?

Once she came here
and gave me this

A personal gift

She was always friendly
to us young ones, as well

I don't believe in the stories
they wrote about her

What stories do you mean?

All kinds of bad ones

She didn't live here, anymore

A beautiful song

Sure it's beautiful

Every time I listen to it I
imagine Saara's singing to it

Though it's just instruments

Of course, my dear friend.
I have already begun to take action

Good! No rush

Our form of life is
not in any danger yet, -

but they seem to be
up to something

Bye. - All right, always yours

You know about those labour
issues from last century

We are in urgent need
of a statement -

about the obsoleteness of strikes

Strike?

Yes?

I was just asking about
seeing the papers on -

the Sariola case.
Just privately, you know

You may ask Raimo.
How come?

Isn't Raimo there?

I'm talking about the issue.
Excuse me, I'm a bit busy

Of course. - Strange

A public figure is
often a myth

Would you like to read this book?
- How did you get in?

The cleaner. - You appear
to be in good terms

Look

Did you buy her tender memories -

off that old hag?

Saara used to sell these
as a sales representative, -

and gave them away to her
acquaintances as personal gifts

What you are talkative today.
- I'm always talkative

By the way, now I know
Saara's scandal -

She asked many men
simultaneously for abort money

A good idea in itself

What should her
hair look like?

What are you driving at?

I just wondered
what this girl is like

Who?

I saw her at the exhibition
a few days ago

She looks like Saara Turunen

How should I know.
- Apparently a waitress

Central Archive

Could you look up a person
who looks approximately like this?

About so, yes... thank you

What are you going to do to her?

Possibly they could
be identical, -

if they had lived in
similar conditions

See, we
could create -

a portrait of a past person
using a live model

Brilliant!

A dangerous crossing...
three hundred...

You guessed right

Raimo wants to go fetch
Kisse from Kuortane

That's good! They might get to
know each other more closely

He wants to
see Kisse's living conditions

You are speeding, slow down

News brief
interest group 4

Airplane crashed in
Nairobi, 1500 dead

The Pope accepted
man foam

Neomessians expect
world to end in a week

Hairiest youth in Finland
switched to another faculty

Pedestrian belts in Stockholm's
centre malfunctioning

We don't need g*ns!
Our thoughts are enough

The United States to continue
their separation policy

Booty mill conquers the world

This is Anu Huotari's
answering machine

We are now...

Can you see the future?

I do

It is populated by hope

There is nothing but hope

and dreaming

Peculiar -

is the beach-head of future

Hope and dreams have
permanent memorials there

Saara Turunen's last interview

Latest phase of the abort debate

ab*rtion money from many

A three-dad gig

Images to the future

From blood fumes to the future

Will rises from the ruins

Strange

Will stares truth in the eye

Does its simplicity
make you wonder?

Only great things are
to build and to work

To build and to learn to love

They don't want to give the council
decision rights, that's what it is

We can't be bought with
perks nor with wages

Our only possibility might
be to go on a strike

Excuse me, I
wanted to meet -

an engineer named
Kisse Haavisto

She's here, but she's
on a break, playing

Can I go there?
- Of course!

They just get excited if
someone goes to look at it

(whistle sound)

Excuse me, may I have...

Do you recognize this picture?

Listen Kisse, your backhold
almost broke me

I was told, that...

Good, Kisse! Now you can push it
from the pelvis. That is important

All right, grab her!

Not like that!

Grab that, put your hand there.
Deeper, deeper

Good! Lift!

You've got talent for this!

Wait here

Was it the picture...
- What?

Was it the picture that caught
your interest or..? - What?

Few are interested in information,
you know. - What?

Information! - I have a learning
machine home

I mean, it's rare that
anyone is so interested that -

they'd visit an exhibition
more than once

Information is
actually exactly what we...

manufacture

That's our product

Hold on, Kisse
I'll be ready in a second

Listen, I think
you could...

But you don't even know me

You are a free person, aren't you?

and only a free person
can pose as an oppressed one

This Saara Turunen
was socially afloat, -

like the weakest people
still are. A victim

Me a victim?

You might find her
interesting to get to know

She had this raw power, -

like a small vampire

yet very pathetic

I'm not like that!

That's exactly why!

She was supposed to save
a child from getting hit by a car

After sh**ting the scene she
put the child down and -

straightaway got hit by a car
coming from the opposite direction

Horrible! - Isn't it?

I'm sure you'd be good

In getting hit by a car?

Hi!

I can't hear you!

A strike?

Come here!

A strike? I wonder if they've
thought it through?

Who do you mean? These technicians
of yours or whatever they are

Or is it just
mass restlessness?

I've heard it comes up -

after abusing mood
enhancement pills, -

but it's very easy
to cure

I don't know -

if it's so easy to cure
in this case

If the deputy manager of the technical
department and the main economist -

want to keep stalling
perfectly clear reforms

And you can't even talk to them,
of course they must be fired

I'll say it straight:
They are complete ret*rds

Surely. Incompetence must be
opposed always and everywhere

It's not really so

Some people don't want to believe
that others want to live, too

And money isn't the only reason

Well said

There's many sides to life
and many sides to every human being

You're coming, right?
- We'll see

Is it your child? - Yes

Is she kind?
- Ask her!

Of course children are kind

No, not even close!
- But you knew Saara back then

How can you know that?

I can barely remember myself

I spent many years abroad
when she died

I was married

I have been happily married
for 53 years now

You were talking about some films?

Yes, she liked filming and
I filmed her a little

Here you have a couple of them,
but it's confidential

Since you are investigating her.
- Of course, of course

That old weirdo

We could still blackmail her
with this material, -

if we wanted.
- Can you still use these?

Of course you can

Truth comes first

There is also the point, -

that I helped Saara
financially in the beginning

She was a good girl,
it was a pleasure to help her

We spent a nice time
together

She wasn't the kind of person
you were thinking of

It is not just a question
of financial matters

Go and talk your sh*t
to the other people, -

why are you always
harassing me?

Hey hey, take it easy.

Listen, I am warning you

I know rats from the smell

Let me smell you

Hell, I am smelling you!

(oriental music)

(alarm is ringing)

(alarm is ringing longer)

Everybody was here
last evening

Is that so

Are you on the picture?

No, it is dad.

What if i would go a bit...
- Okay!

If you have seen one,
you have seen them all

Do you remember her well?

Of course. Every model is
special for me.

I remember Saara
specially well

I was the one who
found her

Later she learned
how to move -

and started to strip

Really?

A profession like any other

It wasn't easy at that time

If Miss would come
in the picture

But we just came here
to ask a little

Everybody is worth a photo,
when you know how to do it right

That Saara had puffy breasts

There you go and...

There

Saara had exactly
same positions

I was the one who took
her first nude shots

Do you mean full nude?

Of course, of course! Art photos -

Not too virgin like,
but beautiful

Beautiful

There. There you go!

There

She was forced to continue

Otherwise her husband
would have known

Little t*tties

Good

Okay, that's enough!

Does this Kisse remind you
of any of your models?

No. Why?

That's it.
Thank you for your help

Good day! I hope we're not
distracting you too much

Even though it's a beautiful day

Very, very. Did you bring
my films with you?

I haven't had the chance to
look at them yet

Remember to return them

Oh, my god

You are like two berries,
if you keep your hair that way

That's true, beautiful

(Old man:) So young.
Saara was the type of girl, -

she was like youth itself, -

so natural and real

I could have helped her
when she was dying, -

if I hadn't been abroad

Why did you go abroad
in the first place?

It was my work

Foreign trade was already
being conducted back then

And your wife was there?
- True

Maybe it was for the better
that she got out

We met each other in the summer, -

It was the late sixties

The w*r raged in Vietnam back then

I'm sorry...

Wrong room

She played in a total of five movies

which add up to 127 seconds

That's a biography in itself

In other words this is what
she made her living out of

Not really. She was
a saleswoman in a boutique

She got additional income
through stuff like this

I think she was an ordinary,
natural girl

I think she liked working in sales

She lacked the talent
to do anything else

Have you already measured her IQ?

Yes. She had had to
career counseling

Liar!

Here, have a look

She lacked education, not intelligence

What do you think, Kisse?
- I can't say anything yet

I think you're forcing an
exception out of Saara, -

instead of an ordinary person

Oh well, even an exception
can be a reflection of her time

What exceptional things are
you going to reveal about me?

It's important to keep all possibilities
open in this profession

People are different
and sometimes surprising

What if it was a suicide?

She had problems, a scandal

Or it was fear of losing her role

She had nothing but her paltry looks

You look like her, but prettier

Yes? - It's Anu. Do you remember
what kind of clothes -

the saleswomen at a drugstore wore?
- No

Waterdrops dry up -

from round lotus flowers

Silent, lonely,
no people in sight -

during the third moment
of the night

A leaf drops tinkling, -

I wake up, the dark
cloud of my dream scatters

The night is boundless

I can't find my way to the dreamland

When morning, I walk around -

the garden paths

In the horizon -

the tired wayfarer stops -

in the mountains one more time -

and looks at the old garden -

reminiscences in his heart, -

the swallow tower is empty, -

where is the beauty queen?

Swallows, you make your
nests in vain -

behind locks

The past and present
are like a dream, -

that we don't wake up from

We stare at the past, -

we mourn the future -

and compare them

The yellow tower
is shining in the night -

and I -

sigh in the night

You'll be a magnificent Saara

Slower, slower

Savour the details

Let the clothes caress your skin

It makes the spectators move

Imagine them licking you
all over with their looks

And enjoy it

That's it!

Good, good. This has
the colour of the times

Beautiful, brilliant!

Damn good thing

Good. Just like that!

Beautiful

Wonderful, do it again

Remember you're wanted

It's about the institution of nudity

Be more base

Right, good!

Then the next photo!

If you had lived in the 19th century, -

there would be at most
a painting left of you

Instead there exist newspaper
stories and films about Saara Turunen

and a vast amount of
archival data

Even more will be left of us

But how do you think
it'll benefit a researcher?

Do you mean that
it's difficult to distinguish -

between true and false information?

It's even more difficult to interpret
a large amount of information than small

Helping people see is the
most important thing to me

How come?

You have exactly the same eyes. Darling

Howdy! Are you alone? - Yes

Of course

I've got a lot of work to do right now

You are a true conservative

Work and personal income
are your whole life

Why can't you just live and be?
- I think I've lived enough

And besides, I really
have to work now

How's it going with Kisse?

You're funny

Can't you see the state you're in?

Yes

You're always like that when you're
in love. Can't you remember?

Well, gimme a kiss

No, like this

And remember, if you have
the courage to sleep with Kisse, -

she's from this century, kiss kiss

She has plenty of potential
for development

I think she could learn to
do more individual work

Are you tired of her?

That has no effect

I just think that Anu Huotari
is ready to move on

There hasn't been a single
mention of the strike on TV

Can't you tell Raimo about it?

Sure, but we mustn't hurry.
- Who cares about that?

Raimo is a typical elite official, -

and these things don't
matter to them

We talked among the boys today

When the strike is over -

we'll get that international
room tropic to the hall

Can I get Kuortane 1788?

Kuortane 1 788? - Yes

Yes? - Raimo Lappalainen
from the Historical Institute, good day

Are the strikers still as stubborn?

First lane, turning right forbidden

Have you heard there's
a strike at a factory?

Who'd be crazy enough
to go on a strike?

They don't exist nowadays

There would've been a mention
on light channel or somewhere

Sorry for bothering you so
late with this insurance business

Hello, here's rep...
- f*ck!

Where have you been?
- Kissing

It's good that you have healthy hobbies

Please tell me, cofidentially, -

how many were there?

So you don't want to answer? What do
you reckon the viewers are thinking?

Our sympathies are with you

Straighten out the misunderstandings,
don't leave room for mean rumours

How did this series of events begin?

In the end it's a question
of destroying a life

Dear viewers, you can't
accept just anything from

the development of the '70s. Our
board of experts, -

where the greatest talents from
the church, psychology, sociology -

and the home protection union
are represented, confirms this

Horrible. Poor thing

She doesn't seem to be
in control of the situation

She's been picked on
so much she's finished

She's done it herself

Are you certain?
- Of course

By acting vulgarly and
giving rise to a scandal

Although she can be understood

She was practically looking for her end

What did she have left but lies

and creeping old age

So death was the correct solution?

In a way

Do you mean that everyone, -

whose life isn't real, should die?

The lowest branches of a tree
will always be in shade

They'll wither and fall off

Of course I'm sorry

It's a pity to leave just as things
are beginning to happen

Can't it be organized in some way?

The manager said
I'm needed in other duties

I'll have to take
a training period and so on

Congratulations!

We'll manage.
And Kisse is a big help

Move on, darling,
and keep your head up!

And we'll stay friends, right?

Let's go out sometime
and march all over the town

Where did you say you were from?
- The Historical Institute

Oh

Have you collected them yourself?

Are you from there too?
- She's my secretary

I've collected them myself, who else

Nothing is as unselfish as owning books

As I already said on the phone, -

we're not looking for a scandal

Could be. I don't know

I understand you've
had your disappointments

The scandal caused by Saara -

must have been a hard blow to you

I was already divorced, remember that!

I was able to get rid of -

such a lowly creature in due time

But it didn't stop her from
causing me shame -

even after our divorce

She even damaged
my position in the library

I was naturally outside it all, -

but you know how dirty
people's imaginations can be

You're sitting on her
favourite chair, miss

So she lived here? - No

I moved here when we divorced

You didn't remarry?

Collecting like this
must be a lot of work

After you lose your eyesight,
only smelling remains

Why don't you try
how her face feels like?

Why don't you videotape them?

Why don't you videotape them?
- Say what?

Why don't you videotape the interviews?

Because I think he's an old idiot

I said, why don't you
record the interviews?

Wouldn't it be more real?

Think so? I think it'd only
disarrange Saara's image

One must stick to the essentials.
Besides, I can't -

concentrate on anything but you

Let's dance

I don't know how to, but
you can teach me

It'd be beautiful...

It'd be beautiful to trip on your
legs. - You're crazy

It isn't easy to influence him

I know that

He thinks he's acting sincerely

He is acting sincerely
and that's just the danger

Raimo has been presenting
the results of his research

They reveal clearly that
almost everybody only watches -

the Light Channel programme.
- That's correct

And channel four is truly free

Anyone can present their
opinions there, -

but nobody is watching

We don't know how people
could be made to understand

If they get to choose,
they'll take the easy way

No problems, no suffering

It's so damn clever.
There's a multitude of choices, -

but only one is
designed to succeed

It's like we have a switch on our heads.
We let ourselves be deceived

Censorship is attached to
men's own heads full of piss

A couple more years and
we get people moving

We must start today

Just don't do anything inconsiderate

Turn on the Light Channel at eight
o'clock this evening and you'll see

What do you think about the future?

How come?
- What's it like?

Our future?
- Or generally

I don't know.
- You should know

What are you doing?
- My work, some calculations

My head hurts.
- Take a pill

I hate pills

I don't think much can be said
about the future

Whatever the precision
of predictions -

or the scientific basis
of fantasies, -

the personal qualities of a researcher
are always the deciding factor

If he's optimistic, he
sees a bright future, -

if he's pessimistic,
it's gloomy

Are you sure?

Can't personal influence
be accounted for?

I'm afraid not

What do you do with the research, then?

Different people do different things

The situation is such that
during the last 40 years, -

especially in the late 20th century, -

more than 27000 affluent people have
been preserved to wait for better times

How has this preservation been done,
professor H?me?

Their body temperature has
been reduced to halt -

biochemical activity.
Thus rotting has been eliminated

The body has been emptied of blood

and the veins have been
filled with a preservative

Does it seem likely that
they could be woken up?

It might be possible
in the future

Maybe already in a hundred years.
But we aren't sure -

if the preservation method has been good

But I'd say there's hope

Even if the rejuvenation succeeds, -

could complications arise?
- Oh yes

The biggest problem for these
people will be fitting in

Just imagine waking up in
a hundred years

These people might not
get on well in a strange world

Adjustment might come about
by being given -

familiar items or clothes

What if they are seized
by a deep depression anyway?

It might already be possible to move -

a person's intelligence to
bionic data units

I'm afraid that the scientists
of the future -

would seize the cerebral
activity of the most intelligent ones -

and would let the resurrected die again

I'm afraid that -

that the season of peace
and impartiality can't continue

Dear friends!

I represent the strike council
of Kuortane nuclear plant

This is a peaceful,
nonviolent demonstration

You may not have heard about our strike

But we want everybody to know

The power must be
removed from executive organs -

and experts feigning impartiality

We invite everybody to
join in the decision-making

Making decisions that concern us all

Step by step we'll
expand our strike

And all power plants
shall join it

And if one night
lights go out

at your neighbour's,
or your home, or the whole town

or the electricity is totally cut,
you must know that -

behind this issue is
a battle organization -

that thinks about you

We demand that officials
responsible for decisions -

join in reciprocal discourse
with us, and we will -

continuously inform you about
the situation on channel four

We will advance peacefully
according to plans, -

without violence. We maintain
the pressure with our work, -

our numbers and our existence

Dear viewers, you've
only been shown shadows

You've only been given weeds

And yet...
the world is rich!

There'll be plenty of roses
for all andand...

No, no!

Who could be behind something like that?

You can't trust anything anymore

Any amateur can come to the programme -

and start talking about progress

Like we all weren't
doing everything we can for it

Can't you..? - Shut up!

If they knew what
the situation really is -

they surely wouldn't crave for power

Dear viewers, you've
only been shown shadows

You've only been given weeds

And yet...
the world is rich!

There'll be plenty of roses
for all andand...

Didn't you see it?
They shot him!

Shot him!

So what? How many do you
think will be shot, if people -

are allowed to roam and rave -

knowing nothing about anything?

You and your kind are preventing -

people from knowing anything

What do you want to know?

Tell me, what are you people
so eager to know?

You are being fed -

and for that you may remain silent

Of course! But think why!

Coward. Coward. Coward

I'm above all an official, -

it's among my responsibilities
to support the impartiality -

that is necessary for our progress

I think Olli is right

What?

We have a responsibility

Besides, I'm not so sure about Raimo

In what way?
- That he's evil

If we want possibilities
for people and ourselves, -

they must be given to his kind, too

Has he already messed up your mind?

On the contrary. When the show
is ready, I'll reveal our plan -

to him and he can choose

Hell no!

Don't be so sure about Raimo, Kisse

You don't know him yet

That's why

I don't want to decide
anything about a man I don't know

These are for you? - What now?
Are you going to betray me?

I'm sorry about yesterday.
I was shocked

Of course.
I'm sorry as well, darling

I didn't remember you were old friends

Honey. - Darling

There's the last photos
of Saara on that wall

Five minutes before her death

It's as if she already knew.
- Isn't it

I absolutely want a better death -

on this show than
getting hit by a car

Something more dramatic

We'll switch the car
for a train, like this

It runs along tracks
undeniably like death

Saara is waiting on the tracks,
runs, and saves a child, -

just like in reality. Good

Then she dodges,
puts the child down -

and move away.
Remains standing

But at the same moment a train
comes from the opposite direction

Saara doesn't notice.
She's being warned

She can't hear or
doesn't she want to hear?

There! The tragedy
has reached a conclusion

Oh my God! What will I do?

What do you mean?

Nothing

Nothing

What is it, honey?
- Nothing

Nothing

Like in a dream
or an old movie

People's destinies
approach each other

A machine that brings people together

What would you say if we got married?

I feel we belong together

You could complement my aspirations -

and I could help you

You'd be a dream wife for me

Who am I now? Saara or me?

You want to hurt me. All right.

No

What do you bring Saara into it for?
She's dead

You only have to choose
- Me?

Do you want someone who's alive
or someone who's dead?

It's odd

Like work didn't matter

You and your f*cking strikes!

I could take your foolishness
on the palm of my hand and blow

Truthfully, -

my best intention...

If I could give...

at least a small droplet -

of consolation to people -

I can consider myself successful

Just you try to take this right from me

Are you leaving me now?

No

I'll do my job and all the rest.
- What rest?

Everything that goes along with it

Here, take a walkie-talkie

Do I press the button?
- Yes

Now we'll sh**t the
train approach

Saara ha saved the child
and put in on the ground

The train has just passed

You look forward in relief
and fail to notice -

that a train is approaching from behind

Can you hear me? - Yes

Jump aside at my command

Can you hear? Listening.
- I can hear you

Jump! Do you hear?

Jump, jump!

Jump, jump, jump!

Jump!

I told you to jump,
it'll run over you

Was the camera running?

Time? - 11.40

On Light Channel
today at 3.30pm -

"Entertainment for millions"

At 4.10 - A depiction of a person
who lived 50 years ago, -

based on documentary material
by Raimo Lappalainen

You ask about the researcher's
part. It's always secondary

Especially in a show like this, -

telling about an individual
in the past

perhaps an unimportant character, -

who, through research -

is raised to an image of her time

The researcher is impartial,
humble, neutral

In a sense you could say
he doesn't exist

The face of the past

a show with the lightness
and beauty of a folk song

Yes, of course.
You are right, -

but it's better to fix it -

than leave it as it is

Ambiguousness is like
sugar to an ant, -

it attracts rabble like nothing

See what I mean, eh?

I'm serious!

Do you think I'm playing
f*cking games, what?

There's reason to avoid
attachment, anyway

attachment, to what?

The thing is, -

is someone doesn't understand, -

they just don't understand

Take care, or I'll have to handle
the issue some other way

Do you f*cking understand?

In a minute we'll begin
the show based on -

Raimo Lappalainen's
documentary material, -

The face of the past, -
a depiction of a person -

from a half century ago

Consistency is no god

There are different grades to it

First you must determine the task, -

and the task creates
the laws of consistency

And what comes to honesty, -

it's always relative

Relative to work and the task

Saara Turunen
died in 1976

She was a relatively
unknown person, -

ordinary and modest

She lived a short
and fervent life

Our compassion lies with her

like with every individual, -

large and small,
under any circumstances

In those times time was measured by
the beginnings and ends of wars

Violence was included in all
important decision-making, -

at least in the background

In spite of the repugnance
of violence, -

we can understand it, -

for in those times most people
were wandering around -

without awareness of themselves and
their place in society

Saara Turunen was one of them

They were societal dynamite -

full of extreme pressures,
the controlling of which -

was beyond the capabilities
of the politicians of the time

It wasn't until our free
society that -

these pressures have found
individual and humane ways of dissolving

Little Saara, as we
can now say

you are trying to reach
the form of life -

that has today become -

consistent, secure,
everyone's own

What is it?

Democracy.
A humane, liberal form of life -

That has to be protected from
conflicts like a blossom

Well said

...as the melody of tomorrow plays

the hour strikes, and night recedes

and the people and work are in glory

Oh, so many have fallen
tired on the roadside

Oh, so many have died in battle

but earthly might
shall not dishearten us

we'll create a strong peace
to drive quarrels away

join us in brotherhood,
peoples from every nation

then even the roses will start to bloom
on the road of our happiness

Need, misery, everything
will be left behind

so, the poor people of happiness,

I'll lift my head up high!