Tallin film 1983
THE CITY OF THE HONEYMASTERS
Scenario & direction Heino Pars Text writer Jüri Tuulik
Art director Halja Klaar Camera Arvo Nuut
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I want milk! Milk! Milk?
Only newly borns get milk.
You're already 4 days old so you will eat bee bread
which is made from honey and pollen. Don't want to!
Who are you? Me? I'm your wet nurse.
I want my mommy!
You silly bee!
There are many of us but we have only 1 single mother.
Including me there are 50,000 of us in this hive.
In spring hundreds of bees are born each day
so by summer there's 80,000 of us.
Shush! The little ones are sleeping. - I know they're sleeping.
They will sleep for 12 days in a row and awake as adult bees.
Good night!
Hello! - Hello!
Congratulations! - Why congratulations!
Because today's our birthday.
What are you doing?
Look at the work calendar. For first 2 days you'll be a janitor.
Janitor? I Don't feel like it.
Mother's coming!
Look, in my jug there's an egg. From that a new bee will be born.
Mine doesn't have one.
You left your jug uncleaned.
Whatever!
Lazy as a blowfly. So, I'll be a wet nurse now.
for 1... 2... 3... 4... 11 days
You call that dancing?!
I'll out-dance you all!
Where now?
Not good. This is going to mean trouble.
How so? Didn't I dance well?
With dancing bees show each other where the richest harvesting area is located.
They won't be happy about this!
I'm out of here.
He fooled us. - Let's give him a hammering!
Cheater! Let's show him!
Charge!
They're gone.
There are 100,000 honeycombs in our city.
Pure honey!
1 bee will fill 4 to 5 honeycombs during her life
In human tongue that's "2 grams of honey"
Stop it!
You'll swell and burst from all that knowledge. - Knowledge is an invaluable asset.
Where do you think you're going?! The soldiers will sting you to death.
Let me go!
You, speedy Vilgas! - Don't you see, young Põnn?
It's the new mother's cradle.
Quickly! Let's get out of here!
Now we're going to be wet nurses
for our new mother.
This one eats a lot.
A mother gets only royal jelly.
That's why she grows fast and lives very long, several years.
Wow! Honey from all over the world. Let's try!
No-no, take from the other jug.
In this one I'm still making the honey.
Very good.
Why do your honeys have different colors?
Because our gatherers bring nectar from different flowers.
From heather nectar we'll make dark honey,
from clover nectar a lighter one.
And here they're taking in food for the journey.
Where are they traveling?
The old city-mother goes out to start a new city.
I see.
Speedy Vilgas, let's go with them. - No, young Põnn, we'll stay here.
Let's fly! Let's go
And they're gone.
I would really like to try flying.
Let's try.
How exciting! - Fantastic!
Tomorrow we'll fly harvesting. - Let's do that.
Põnn! Põnn! - What is it?
Listen, our new mother is singing.
A Wasp! A Pirate!
Young Põnn! Awesome! You did well.
No big deal.
I'm going harvesting now.
You rest!
Wet-nurse! What's wrong with you?
My 35 days of life are coming to an end.
I'll get you into the beehive, you're tired.
Thank you!
I won't come into the hive anymore.
Just push me over the edge.
Wait.
Deliver those.
Thank you! My days are numbered
but I managed to gather plenty of nectar for my family.
Hello! I greet you!
Hello, Mother!
When all the meadows and gardens are blooming the hive won't follow the standard work calendar.
Everybody flies out to harvest.
To fill the harvesting buckets,
up to 100 flowers need to be visited.
Oh. That was tiresome.
But the buckets are filled to the brink.
Try it!
What's happening here? A wedding?
The wedding of the young mother. They're flying on their honeymoon.
Mother has a single big concern: That the hive will never be empty.
She gives out one new life after another as an endowment to the hive. This way...
...up to 2,000 new bees can be born in a single day.
Yes, she's the soul of our family.
To get 1KG of honey, floral nectar has to be collected from 20 milion blossoms,
by which we...
Pretty but stupid.
The End Subtitles by eus. april 2018 Translation by borderliner