CAMERAMAN KÖPS IN BERRYLAND
Written by Silvia Kiik and Heino Pars
Directed by Heino Pars Camera: Ants Looman
Composer: Arvo Pärt
Hullo, Forest Wise Man!
Cameraman Köps! Welcome, young friend.
Hop up here.
Oh, how exciting. A television!
I really love televisions, I haven't seen one like this.
This isn't a TV, it's a much more complicated machine.
Please, have a seat.
I'll get her started.
And now...
Lilacs! - Yes, wild lilac is the popular name,
but it's February daphne. - Mmm, sounds like toffee.
Ah, but this plant must not be eaten.
She's a beauty, but full of poison.
Even its beautifuI flowers are poisonous.
Show me something more. - I'd be happy to.
Strawberries! - Right you are.
The flowers are white as snow, but the berry's flesh is red rose.
What berries are these? - Blueberries.
Blueberries? But blueberries are blue!
A city boy, I see. These are blueberry flowers.
Spring has sprung before our eyes. - Neat!
And look there, all in bloom is the lingonberry crew.
That's what lingonberry flowers look like? I had no idea.
You've never seen them so close up.
Now we're heading to the bog. - Wow!
Not wow, but cloud - cloudberries.
It's not that easy to grow leaves and form flowers.
Beautiful white flowers.
Push the button. - One second.
Whoa! - An Arctic raspberry before us is dancing.
A fragile red flower, beautiful and fancy.
It softly stirs in a gentle breeze
and I can speak of it only in poetry.
Do you write poems? - It's been known to happen.
Nature has a way of putting your words in rhyme.
Can I operate the machine? Just a little!
Press here. - Köps!
Got away! - Let's catch that rapscallion. There!
Here we have a toxic flower, poison as the witching hour.
But despite that evil thought, it's often called lover's knot.
But this one? - Baneberry, a relative of lover's knot.
You went right up a tree! It's rowanberry flowers.
But now here's a riddle for you.
Look close... What flower is this?
Dandelion?
I even wrote a poem about this flower:
The mire appears to blush, when buds are on the cranberry bush.
And look at this.
Another riddle?
Ready? Beetles!
What are they doing? - Gathering pollen.
Ah, a vacuum cleaner. They're cleaning the flowers?
It seems you have a lot to learn about pollination.
I'll give you a lesson. Let's go.
Every flower has petals, stamens and a pistil.
The stamens have the pollen, it goes into the pistil
and then fruit starts growing. Got it? - Got it.
Let's go!
Driving down these forest roads...
... we see what the flowers have grown.
Look at how many strawberries! - No, not quite.
Not garden strawberries. - But good to eat? - Yes.
Oh, and how tasty! Sweeter than regular ones.
Fragaria viridis. Mini-strawberries.
Look how deep in the calyx the berries are.
Like hazelnuts. But strawberries... - Got it!
Look there, those are regular strawberries. - Yes,
their calyxes are open.
Such beautiful strawberries!
Great shots!
Quite possible... HeIp, heIp! - Sorry. - You got carried away.
Why are there specks on the strawberries?
The specks are seeds. Usually inside berries,
but strawberries... - ... they crawled out. Let's go!
The carriage rolled into the berry bush... - But we have a car!
I was just talking in verse... - Blue raspberries!
There isn't any such thing. These are blackberries.
It grows on walls like a vine, the warm stone feels fine
Ooh, very rare in our forests, the Arctic raspberry.
Its real home is far up north,
Along the Baltic, it's found only in one forest.
And this is it, for reaI? - For real.
For real!
Look, Köps.
Cloudberries ripening.
Look how delicate and irresistible they are.
Such colours!
This is great! - Like drops of sunshine fallen to earth.
Hey there, watch out - water.
If you don't take care, you'll find yourself up to here.
Wow, this is a real berry forest! - Yep, a forest of bog bilberry.
They are also called drunkenberry in Estonian.
It was thought they make your head spin and poisonous.
But it's their neighbour Labrador tea that's to blame.
Bilberries are good for you.
But do you know these ones?
They're blueberries,
they're good to eat, but colour your teeth. - Right.
Such long strings of pearls! - Rowanberries.
Where are they 'rowing'? - They come from the tree,
go into the harvester. - Ah.
Shame, shame....
Rowanberries aren't good for anything. - Dear boy,
the treats that can be made from rowanberries.
Good jam, nourishing juice,
tea and very tasty wine.
Stop, stop!
It's gone out of control!
You're letting the juices fIow back up to the tree!
Cowberry lads make a fine salad. - Yes, that is true.
Look, Köps, how inventive an artist Nature is:
lichens are grey and cowberries carmine red.
Watch out!
Remember this one?
Look how generously it offers its berries.
You sneaky plant!
Baneberry, I know you! As poisonous as demon stew!
A little like a blueberry, but it won't fool me.
The berries are in big bunches and the leaves are different.
Very good. Write it down: 15.
One moment please.
Thanks. - We're studying cranberries.
Cranberry has lots of vitamin C...
Lover's knot...
How beautiful!
They must be very sweet.
Don't pick it! It's deadly!
Daphne is toxic! - Don't be afraid, pick me.
Pick me. - Choose us!
Let him pick the one who's tastiest.
Strawberries are best! - Bog bilberries are tastiest!
False! The cloudberries are!
Have you no shame? - Cranberries!
We protest! - I'm the best! - I'm so mad I could explode!
Me! - Me! - Me! - Me!
Wise Man, the berries are fighting!
Stop, stop at once! - That'll serve you right!
I'll show you!
Blueberry bazookas, cloudberry commandos!
Great shots!
Into the basket, march!
There you go. - Thanks!
Instigators!
Shame on you! Poisonous berries into the brig!
Your blossoms' beauty is plain.
But poison runs deep in your veins.
Thus leave these ones alone
and don't think of bringing them home.
The other berries too are at fault the court will not be merciful.
What is the meaning of this?
Who are you?
My name is Polyvitamin and these are my kid vitamins.
You
It's silly to quarrel, of course,
but can the berries really be held to account?
No they are very good for you.
They are so high in vitamins, especially C.
Look at those, how delicate they are.
Wise Man, forgive them.
The berries realise what they did what have sincere remorse
I forgive them, but now quickly, into the jars with all of them.
Long live the Forest Wise Man, berries and vitamins!
THE END