01x10 - Luonnon puolesta

[bunniefuu]

Part 10: For the Nature
In July 1988

So? - Maybe it’s time you get a mobile phone so we can reach
you, instead of driving dozens of kilometers just to get in touch.

Yeah, that might be a good idea.

So, did you have
something important to discuss?

Yeah.

Do you remember when we talked about
Lintujärvi and the surrounding peatland areas?

Yeah?

So what about that?

Now it’s getting tricky.

That elementary school teacher Ronkainen
is on a warpath again.

I just heard from the district forest manager that he’s submitted a proposal to the Ministry of
the Environment suggesting that not just Lintujärvi but also the surrounding peatland areas should be protected.

That’s your own fault.

You were behind that protection decision, because you didn’t want the road going
through your land, and instead you wanted to push it onto us.

Gentlemen have their own tricks.

You should've learned that.

Be that as it may.

But now we need to act immediately,
so that Ronkainen doesn’t mess things up.

So...

Immediately, you say?

Right away.

Or we can start tomorrow at the latest.

Well, that doesn’t really work.

Both our machines are tied up here.

And this thing will go on for months.

It’ll have to work, because
I’m telling you it will.

So you’re saying we should detach machines and break contract agreements
just to get the ditches done for you for own-cost?

We don’t need to detach
machines or break contracts.

We’ll get that tracked excavator
we’ve been talking about.

But we don’t have the money for that.

We’ll arrange temporary financing.

Besides, now you’ve got a great opportunity to pay off some of your
debt here with the gravel pit from the Urja slopes you owe me.

Yeah, that might be, but I don’t really have the... - No more buts, just take
care of it so that next week there’s a tracked excavator working on that peatland area.

And you can manage with the
old machine over the weekend.

It’s going to be pretty expensive
for you, with Sunday overtime pay.

And how do you expect me to
find you a man, for Sunday?

We don’t need any men for that.

I’m fine as long as you're there.

And at your own cost.

There are plenty of guys in the world.

Oh come on, stop whining.

We’ll figure this out.

And listen. He would've been
an old man for you.

He’s almost as old as
our Eeva, if not older.

Hey, how about you stop fussing and head over to Ristijärvi
to look at those horses from the ad in the paper?

Yeah, that’s what we’re doing.

I'm not going anywhere.

Eeva, hey, look.

I caught a couple of fish.

Aren’t they nice?

Come have some coffee here.

Yeah, yeah.

We could smoke these.

Or hey, I could wrap them in newspaper, moisten
it, and put them in the stove, that’ll work.

That's how we do it in the South.

Sit down for a bit.

Well?

I need to head back to work soon.

You should leave here.

Leave?

I need to sort things out here,
talk to Liisa and my father.

But if I stay until tomorrow.

I can talk to your mother
while you talk to your father.

This isn’t an easy matter, not at all.

I’ve got a week off in two weeks.

We could meet then.

That way I’d have time to sort out
my thoughts and some others thoughts too.

Well, if it’s necessary,
I guess it’s necessary.

But then we’ll head to Parainen.

To see where I live.

Yeah, that’s the condition.

Look, I’ve met your dad twice already.

So now it’s your turn to
meet my father at least once.

Huh?

That black one’s beautiful.

It sure is.

But it’s just warmblooded.

I was actually thinking of something cold-blooded, since
we’ve had so many warmbloods so far.

Should it be a Finnish horse?

Well, that’s what I was thinking.

Something like that would handle
this Kainuu weather much better.

Oh, well, come on.

Get that nose of yours cleaned up.

There are plenty of guys in the world,
they come and go, and people forget.

How could he do that...

Yeah, tell me about it.

And Eeva.

Well, I’m sure there’s still
a reason for that.

Let's go see those
other horses. Come on.

Hi Jaakko.

Oh, hello.

How's it going Erkki?

The same.

You’ve got some maintenance
work to do there.

Just twisting hooks a bit.

Straight.

Listen, I came to ask how
urgent your foundation work is?

See, I’ve got something to take
care of, quite urgent as well.

I was thinking when your
villa package is coming?

Look, if you’ve got something to
do, just take care of it.

There’s been a lot happening, and we’ve had a
few bumps in the road, as they say.

Bumps in the road, yeah.

Hei Erkki.

A man can’t even provide a
roof over his family’s head.

Don’t bother, Jaana.

There’s been quite a lot going on.

There have been some,
like, delivery issues.

Yeah, yeah.

Delivery issues?

Just say it as it is.

That you can't pay advance
payments to the builders.

You have delivery issues, alright.

Okay, fine.

There’s no money.

I’ve been helping Risto out this spring
and been involved in the business a bit.

And now I hear there’s no money.

So... No money, no cottage.

What cottage?

We agreed on a villa.

And I’m going to have that build too.

Yeah.

It seems nice for you here.

You can always postpone the
villa project a bit.

So, Jaakko, I’ve got something
I wanted to ask you.

Yeah?

Erkki, don’t trust Jaakko’s
advice too much.

He might even make a
mistake by a year sometimes.

Right, yeah.

I have this agreement with Kari Kaukovaara, where it says that if
any shareholder requests, the company must provide machinery at cost price.

Right.

So, what exactly is included
in that cost price?

It includes all
normal operational costs.

Right.

Like wages, social security costs, fuel
for the machine, machine maintenance?

Yeah, and machine depreciation.

Basically everything except for profit.

Everything?

Everything.

Even Sunday overtime compensation?

Yes.

Exactly.

Exactly, yeah.

Yeah.

Well… I’m heading home now,
so... try to hang on.

Sure, why not.

Mom, where’s Dad?

He left with Liisa to Ristijärvi
to check on the horses.

What?

Aren’t you two going to
get more animals to feed?

No, Dad just went to comfort Liisa.

The girl has heartaches.

Okay.

So, make me a couple
of sandwiches to go.

The warm food is almost ready.

Potato wedges.

I don’t really have time for that now.

I need to make a few calls, then
I have to go to work again.

Again on a Friday night?

You should be home sometimes.

Yeah, yeah.

No, I have to drive a
machine to the peat forest.

Digging ditches for Kari.

Oh.

I completely forgot.

Dad was on the phone
when someone from Helsinki called.

It was from some ministry.

You should be at the
Tourism Promotion Center on Monday.

Director Rinne called about
some government project.

What?

Wasn’t it Director Vuoria who
called about the slope project?

Well, nothing makes sense from
all these dad's ramblings.

Oh, Monday, huh.

Well, what a surprise.

What do you have to do with those?

What kind of project is that?

What have you started now?

Well, we're digging gravel
from the hillside.

Gravel, gravel.

But don’t think I'm an
idiot regardless I'm old.

Jesus.

Good evening. -
Raija, hi.

How did you get in?

Wait just a moment.

Could you maybe visit home
sometimes, not just to sleep?

Well, of course, it’s your choice
if you enjoy being here more.

I just came to tell you that I'm
going to Helsinki for a scriptwriting course.

At Yle's vocational school and the
Finnish Film Foundation's dramaturgy course.

I didn’t buy any food for home because I don’t
know when, where, or with whom you’re eating nowadays.

I’ll manage.

There’s a phone bill and an electricity bill on the kitchen table,
and they need to be paid by Monday at the latest.

Yeah?

I don’t have any money.

Neither do I.

I should pay the interest.

We’ve been living on my salary
for the last few months.

Sell the car.

You don’t need that kind
of a diva-like vehicle.

You’re not out to be a director.

I know, I know...

I’m leaving now, bye.

Raija, do the courses start on Saturday?

Hello!

What’s the mayor doing here?

Oh, I heard you’ve been calling.

Do you have important matters?

Yeah, I heard I should
go to MEK (that ministry in Helsinki) on Monday.

Right, to get that statement, of course.

Yeah, look, without the statement we
will be left without these grants.

Yeah, yeah.

How does that sound?

Is that okay for you?

Well, let's make it work.
Prioritize things.

Good.

Let’s do it this way: take the morning
flight from Kajaani and return in the evening.

Yeah.

We’ll show the tickets so the
municipality can pay for them.

I’ll pick you up after
five on Monday morning.

Agreed.

Don’t forget to bring
the papers with you.

And don't tell anyone.

No, no, no.

Good day.

Good day, good day.

There was the true
green, teacher Ronkainen.

Tahko Ronkainen.

Pihkala of environmentalists.

A true evergreen.

What does he have?

Staring at us like birds at Lintujärvi.

See you.

It's a beautiful evening!

You made it today, after all?

Yeah.

We got the booth ready,
even though it was tight.

Where are the others?

They’ll be here soon.

They were still taping the top boards, and
the background images need to be glued again.

Oh God, what does the client think?

Well, of course they were swearing, cause
we were struggling to finish it in time.

Told that they won’t pay for
work that wasn’t done as agreed.

If this is going downhill, we’ll lose
at least two jobs right away.

Don’t stress about it.

Damn!

Don’t worry, we’ll figure it out.

At Leppävaara.

Oh, you?

I’ve been waiting for you to come by.

Didn’t Liisa tell you?

Yeah, she left a note on my table,
but I’ve had a lot going on lately.

Yeah, didn’t have time to stop by.

I could come tomorrow, if
that works for you.

Yeah, Liisa will be there then too?

I guess so.

Though she had a plan to leave already today, but
then she went to Ristijärvi with Antti to see horses.

They’re taking an unusually
long time there.

I've been waiting here with the food.

Listen, Eeva, I don’t want to get involved
in your matters, although I really don’t understand.

Well, it's your business, you
know what you're doing.

Ah, I think they're coming now.

Dear God.

Listen, I have to stop now.

Come tomorrow then.

What is that?

It’s a horse.

I can see it’s a horse, but didn’t
we agree that we wouldn’t buy a horse?

I didn't buy.

Liisa bought it.

Li... Is that true?

Yes, believe me.

Well, how did she pay for it?

Well, I have savings and I
got something as graduation gifts.

So how much did it cost?

Six thousand.

That much?

Did you really have that much?

Almost.

The tail is mine.

Isn’t it beautiful?

So, you’re just going to
pull along these stick.

That machine won't get very far.

We should wait until
the ground is frosted.

Well, that’s what we originally planned, but when the environmentalists came up with
this drainage idea, now we have to move as quickly as possible.

See, it's my land.

If we don’t do it now, the spring
floods will wipe out all the trees.

There he comes, damn it.

We’re taking too big of a risk.

It could sink so deep into the
ground, we’ll never get it out.

That’s your opinion, but we’re
starting the work right now.

What’s going on here?

What do you mean, what’s going on?

The situation is such that
digging ditches can't be started.

Listen, old man.

This is my land and my forest, and I’m
going to do whatever I think is best here.

That's what you think.

You're ruining valuable natural heritage, and
it belongs to the whole nation.

Stop this work immediately.

And now, old man, you
leave this forest, right now.

I’m warning you.

Warn me all you want, but now you leave.

I’ve turned to
the provincial government.

Even if you turned to the president, you’re
still leaving here from bothering peoples work.

This doesn’t bother me.

Keep quiet now.

I’ll make sure the work stops.

If not other way, then by manpower.

Where do you think
you’ll find that manpower?

Wouldn’t it be better to stop the
digging for now until we settle this?

There’s nothing left to settle.

This is my land, and I’ll do
whatever I think is best here.

You can’t deny that these are my lands.

Well, I don't deny that.

Yeah, and as long as you don’t have any official paper
telling me not to take care of my own property.

I’ll do exactly what I
think is best here.

Got it?

You’ll regret this.

Erkki, you start digging from that side.

It’s firmer ground there.

Got it.

Is the thunder coming this way?

I don’t think so.

Usually, it stays behind the Urja.

So, here we have ***just some fish***.

The fish is great, even though
it was an old joke.

By the way, when I was heading this
way, I noticed quite a few vacant places.

Yeah, but it’s not because of
Chernobyl, if that’s what you’re imagining.

Well, of course not.

I’m not that gullible.

I was just wondering, because there
are so many of them.

Farming around here doesn’t really
pay off these days.

But then again, there’s really no
other work around here either.

First, the forests were cut down, and when the money from the timber
ran out, people went looking for bread elsewhere, from Sweden and southern Finland.

Are they for sale?

Some are, and some aren’t.

A lot of people want to keep
their old homesteads as summer cottages.

And maybe some still have that crazy
dream of coming back here one day.

Like you, huh?

Yeah, like me.

But I don’t think I’ll be
staying here until the end.

But I’d love to see your house.

And meet your mom.

Maybe another time then.

I would have loved to show you Leppävaara
and introduce you to my mom too.

But it doesn’t really work
while Liisa is here.

That’s true.

But hey, once you have some
free time, we’ll go to Parainen.

Let’s make plans for that.

My dad will definitely
go crazy over you.

Since I don’t have a mother anymore.

Poor boy, don’t you have any siblings?

No, I don’t.

I’m an only child.

Spoiled and pampered.

Yeah, you can tell.

How so?

I'm so kind and obedient.

All you need to do is snap
fingers, and I’m ready to go.

Oh, come on.

Liisa, take the horse somewhere
and come for breakfast porridge.

Aren’t you mad at me for the horse?

Of course not.

Who were you talking to?

The horse.

Don’t mock me.

There you see, what the horse does.

I shouldn’t have let you both go
see the horses on your own.

I should have known you’d end up
being fooled by some con artist.

He wasn’t a con artist.

He’s almost a relative.

A guy from the neighboring village.

Oh.

I didn’t know you had
relatives in the neighboring village.

From the Karelian Isthmus.

Karelian men.

Could you grandpa put the horse in its
own pen so it can run freely outside?

We’ll see.

I’ll come up with something.

Erkki says he won’t
be home until evening.

Oh, did he bring any food?

Probably not.

Well, you could bring him something
to eat in the afternoon.

You’ll get there fast on your bike.

Where is he now?

He went to ditch Kari Kaukovaara's
forests behind the Lintujärvi (lake).

Stigu, look where you’ve parked the car.

You’ve even got a ticket.

Listen, this is the exact
correct place for me.

Right?
- I see.

Bye bye. Drive carefully.

Bye. Call me.

Lintujärvi nature reserve

Yes, this is Lintujärvi nature rese...

Hey, excuse me?

What is it?

Could you guide me?

Lintujärvi nature reserve
should be somewhere here?

Well, yeah. It's about a
kilometer straight from here

Then there will be small road,
that turns to the left.

I'm going there myself too.

Nice. Are you from around here?

No, I'm from Tampere.

Actually, I'm from Helsinki.

Or actually, from Oulu.

Oh, I see.

So, you came here to
watch birds or what?

No. To protect them.

I see.

Bye.
- Bye bye.

You want a ride?

- What is he doing now?

Listen, Ronkainen, I have nothing
to do with this matter.

I'm just here as a hired hand.

I’m just doing the work for the payment.

Yeah, you're in with Kaukovaara's crew.

You own the excavator together.

But I have no part in his forests.

I'm just digging here according to
his instructions, don't you understand?

You can ask him yourself, he’s
about to show up here.

Either way, the digging stops here.

You can get off immediately.

Don't start hitting.

Hey, let's fasten ourselves quickly
to the machine with chains.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think I’ll leave now.

I have other things to do,
than just hanging around here.

I’ll come back tomorrow to
pick up the machine.

And we’ll take it to the road
constructrion site.

But try to manage.

Say hello to Kari from me.

Erkki, hey, your sandwich!

Here’s the chain.

Is this enough for here?

Well, the police didn’t come after all.

Nope.

At least not yet.

Osmo.

Liisa.

How did it end up like this?

What should we do now?

We wait.

What?

Wait for the police to
come and the press.

What are you doing with the police?

Wasn't it about stopping the digging?

Yes, yes.

But it's more effective if we cause such
a commotion that the papers write about it.

And maybe even the TV
news will pick it up.

This way we get people to
understand what's really going on.

Not just here, but everywhere.

This kind of tremendous environmental
destruction has to stop.

I don’t understand why
they couldn't ditch this forest?

Look.

If this gets ditched...

then acidic peat water will
flow into the lake.

This will change the pH level of the lake and,
little by little, all life in the lake will die.

And during the digging, aluminum may detach from
the soil and damage the tree roots.

Anyway, I need to go take
care of my horse now.

You have a horse?

Yes.

Hey, who has the key?

I don't know.

I gave them to Timo.

Timo, do you have them?

I did, but I don’t anymore.

Who has them then?

No one.

I threw them into the woods when
I thought the police were coming.

We could’ve talked to
our Erkki about this.

Does he have the key?

No. It's his excavator

Come quickly, Erkki.

They're talking about the Talakka
forests in the news.

I’m not giving instructions
from here right now.

This is Prime Minister Harri Holkeri at the Radio
House steps right after the Prime Minister's interview session.

It’ll be here shortly.

This afternoon, the Hoikka district sheriff issued an order to remove several
dozen environmental activists who had chained themselves to forestry machines.

This way they wanted to show their opposition to the draining
of the bogs and the forest being cleared.

The authorities took action after
the landowner requested assistance.

Isn't that Liisa?

Environmentalists have gathered here in the
Talakka wilderness, all the way from Helsinki.

They're protesting by chaining themselves
to the logging machinery.

The police have had to cut chains
with bolt cutters and clearing saws.

We’ll have to be friendly and help you out a bit.

- My goodness. Now Liisa goes to prison.

- I doubt she will end up in jail.
At most, into custody.

- Custody or jail, it's the same thing.

- What will Risto say when he sees this?

- And Raija.

Currently, those protesters are being
carried away from here.

They’ll probably have to face
justice for their actions, right?

District sheriff Kari Usko?

Yes, in such a case, the
law is crystal clear.

Since they’ve broken national
laws, consequences will follow.

Is it necessary to resort to
force in situations like this?

We haven’t used any force.

We’ve kindly asked them to leave the area,
and since they haven’t done so, we...

...are now carrying them away.

The landowner has asked us for help, as these youths
are preventing his legal work on his own land.

Landowner Kari Kaukovaara, was it necessary
to call the police here?

Wouldn’t it have been more sensible to
negotiate peacefully and resolve the issue?

What’s there to negotiate now?

They’ve chained themselves...

...to machines and trees
and interrupted work.

I should’ve stayed too.

I’d have been on TV.

- These are my forests and lands, and I lose
an excessive amount of money every year due to this.

You were actively involved in preserving the Lintujärvi, which
was then handed over and donated to the state.

Why are you now revoking your donation?

I couldn’t have known that while donating Lintujärvi to
the state, I was condemning my own forests to destruction.

This way Kaukovaara managed to change the direction of
the road to avoid affecting his land.

That's the nobility of it.

What is the purpose of the
activities in the Talakka forests?

If the swamp area is ditched, we’ll
lose many rare plants and animals.

But there are plenty of
similar swamps all over Finland?

True, but this area is rarer because it’s directly connected to
Lintujärvi, where rare and endangered birds breed.

Destroying the bog also
means destroying Lintujärvi.

Lintujärvi is a nature reserve, but its
protection decision was made only very recently.
- There are rare birds all over Finland.

That’s correct.

The state had to change the
road’s direction because of that.

It would seem nonsensical to destroy this area
now and undo everything we’ve accomplished so far.

Such are the strong emotions in the Talakka wilderness,
and the last word is certainly not yet spoken.

Environmentalists have applied to the Oulu Regional Administrative Board for a temporary action ban on this area.

Next, I’ll give the
weather forecast for tomorrow.

Where are you going?

I’m going to drive the hayload to shelter
and then pick up the excavator.

No, someone has to go to
Kalajärvi to get Jaakko’s help.

Where do you need his help again?

Let Liisa sort out helself for
what she has messed up.

Well, Liisa is innocent, after all.

She doesn't even belong to
any conservation groups.

How do you know that?

- Well, I’m heading to work now anyway.

Guess there’s no other option but for
me to go to Kalajärvi by bike myself.

Ah, more rain is coming...

Justice is on our side.

Lintujärvi needs to be protected.

And if swamp waters are drained during ditching
protection of the Lintujärvi... - Well, thanks anyway.

Now the next one can come in right away.

Those scratches should get checked.

When was the last time
you got a tetanus shot?

I have no idea.

Well, it's better to go
through the clinic then.

Sit over there and wait for them.

We’ll arrange transportation for you.

And next.

You must be the last one.

Well, come here then.

Sit here.

And let’s start over.

Name?

Osmo Antero Lampinen.

Born?

Yes.

Stop that.

Where were you born, and when?

In Oulu, 25th October 1962.

Profession?

Natural sciences student.

Address?

Kipperikuja 6D, Espoo.

Father's and mother's name?

Mother is Anja Lampinen.

She works now in Helsinki as a meter maid.

She is divorced from my father, who is Antero
Lampinen, a chief engineer at the Finnish Steamship Company.

Mom lives at home, and Dad is currently somewhere between England
and Finland, probably in the engine room or the bunk.

Slow down, I’m not a shorthand typist.

Jaana!

Hello?

Is anyone home?

Jaana!

Jaakko!

Hi, Mom.

The road has been in really bad shape.

It’s been in horrible condition
since the drilling crew came.

Yes, we’ll ask Erkki to
bring some gravel loads there.

Were you already sleeping?

Jaakko!

Mom came to greet us.

Make us some coffee.

No, no, no.

No time now.

Tell Jaakko to come here.

Something terrible has happened.

Sorry.

Good day.
- Good day.

Liisa, what are you doing here?

Came for coffee.

Did something happen to you?

No.

Come there.

You can wait in the lobby.

Or do you have something?

I don't have anything personally.

Well, just wait there.

It won’t take long.

Alright.

This is Liisa, my brother’s daughter.

Hi.
- Hi.

You’re Risto's daughter, right?

Yeah.

This is Helena Meriläinen.

You’ve probably met before.

Maybe once.

Yeah, that could be.

Liisa was in the Talakka forest.

Oh dear.

These really need to be cleaned up.

Go sit there.

You were in Talakka forest?

Yeah.

Was Erkki digging there?

Yeah.

Nothing happened to him, right?

No.

Alright, give it to me then.

Let’s clean these up a little.

Oh don’t.

They’re just superficial marks.

It’s easy for you to say.

Will these leave scars?

Maybe a little, but
they’ll go away eventually.

Who was that boy you came here with?

It's not your business.

Not your hobby horse, at least.

Or you want him into your stables too?

I’ve had scars like that before.

Oh?

If you mean Make, you
should’ve held onto him.

That would’ve saved us a lot.

Give the girl a tetanus shot.

f*ck you.

Eeva, Eeva, Eeva hey?

Hi.
- Hi. Have you been in a fight too?

I’ve been chasing Liisa around all day.

I went to the district sheriff’s office,
and they said she’s here.

Has something more serious happened?

No, nothing.

Well?

Let’s go home.

Grandma and Grandpa are worried.

Yeah, yeah.

Don’t overreact.

No, no.

Liisa, hey?

I’m really sorry.

Let's go now.

Try to manage.

Yeah, you too.

We’ll probably meet again someday.

Maybe.

Yeah, I’ll be at Leppävaara,
if you know that place.

If you’re ever around there, come by.

From which bird book can you find these?

From a bird book...