Fårö Documentary 1970
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00:54Norah hundra mil from North Polen Liggett Gotland meet you to just Russian no got narrowed Sverige and Russia
01:02Strax norost om Gotland avskyld igen med 0,6 till 3 kilometer brett sund ligger foren
01:08som i 102 kvadratkilometer stor
01:13En utgörs av kala hellmarker
01:17Grunda småsjöar sparsamt tallskog bundna flygsandsfält samt någon odlad mark
01:23den bofasta befolkningen uppgick våren 1969 till
01:28754 personer för fyrtio år sedan uppgick innevånare antalet till omkring 1100 personer
01:46Jag tror inte att fåres befolkning har det sämre ställt den andra glesbygdsinnevånare i den industrialiserade välfärden
01:54Arbetslösheten i för närvarande inte särskilt påtaglig många har bilar eller traktorer
02:00familjerna har tv och frysboksar
02:03ändå finns det något alarmerande i dessa människor situation
02:08Gotland större precis samma förhållande till Sverige som
02:12foregår till
02:14Gotland och det rätters någonting så förbannet egentligen för
02:19Vi är i alla fall gott ledningar
02:21I någon mån även många gånger inte blivit hållna för det får förebrådde har jag ett speciellt släkte för sig
02:28är det ett ort så blir naturis ytterdelarna
02:32lite eftersatta vad heter den här kommunen ja det är forsknings stor kommun
02:38Vad består denna den är samma slagandet av de gamla kommuner
02:43Bunge får fleringar ute
02:46Vet du hur många människor som
02:48Finns här det är tre tusen sju hundra ungefär och av det får
02:55900 hur mycket pengar kan en sån här kommun i dag att röra sig med det ger det rör som ett par miljoner
03:02i omsättning det är det precis som att inte någonting ska vara här ute
03:08får
03:10Gå mot en avfolkning med sig så det blir det sämre för oss som stannar kvar vintertiden
03:18Vindelgatan
03:20Ja
03:47Du är jordbrukare
03:50Hur länge har du varit det
03:52Ja det har jag varit sedan jag var här
03:54Sedan 37 då dog pappa
03:56Och då övertog du gården?
03:58Ja men jag hade det att jobba förr för han var ju sjuk
04:00Hur stort är ditt jordbruk?
04:02Ja det är väl
04:04En tjugotonland
04:06Och hur många djur har du?
04:08Ja nu har vi tre kor
04:10Och så har vi fem hästar
04:12Jag har avvitt med den
04:14Ja men
04:16Sen hade du en kolossal gris såg jag där inne
04:18Och så små grisar
04:20Ja det har vi haft men de har vi sålt
04:22Vi har bara två då
04:24Ja min syster hon dog
04:26Det var 57
04:28I cancer då
04:30Men det var ju svårt förstås
04:32Den lilla var tre år då
04:34Och dom andra
04:36Ja Malin var 14 och Jan var åtta år
04:40Och då flyttade dom hit till dig
04:42Nej dom har alltid bott därför vi bodde tillsammans
04:44Så det var ju inte något problem
04:46Det var egentligen bra för dom
04:48Att dom behövde inte flytta på sig då
04:50Nej
04:52Ingrid hur är ditt dagsprogram?
04:54Ja det
04:56Jag har inte något dagsprogram
04:58Utan jag gör vad det faller mig in på
05:00Jag är fri
05:02Det är just det som är så lyckligt tycker jag
05:04Men när stiger du upp på morgonen?
05:06Ja jag måste ju ner med mjölken
05:08Så jag stiger upp på sex
05:10Ja och vad gör du sen då?
05:12Ja då går jag först ner med mjölken
05:14Och sen kokar jag kaffe
05:16Jag ger korna och hästarna först
05:18Jag ger djuren
05:20Kokar kaffe så mjölkar jag
05:22Och sen?
05:24Grisarna ska ha så ska korna vattna
05:26Och så ska jag laga mat
05:28Men Per kommer då också han hjälper mig
05:30När börjar Per på morgonen då?
05:32Ja åtta
05:34Han behöver sova
05:36Det behöver man när man är så ung
05:38Hur gammal är han nu?
05:40Han är fyra år
05:42Och så kör vi ut
05:44Vi jobbar i skog
05:46Vi har jobbat i vinter
05:48Då har vi lejt en granne som har med mot oss
05:50Så har han fält för oss
05:52Så har vi själva då
05:54Vi har barkat av trean
05:56Och sådär
05:58Och så har vi kört till sågen
06:00Och sågat bredden
06:02När tar ni middag så?
06:04Mellan tolv och ett
06:06Då ger vi djuren
06:08Då vi själva ska ha kaffe
06:10Och sen då?
06:12Då ser vi tillbaka igen och jobbar till halv fem ungefär
06:14Jag är hemma och lagar mat
06:16Då går Per laga om det
06:18Men sen jag bakar
06:20Och städar och tvättar
06:22Det gör jag på natten
06:24Så jag har alltid arbetat i skift med mig själv
06:26Oroar du dig för framtiden?
06:28Ja
06:30Jag vet ju inte
06:32Allt ska bli förstatligt
06:34Det är ett spöke
06:36Det är inte det
06:38Det är det som är det svåra
06:40Du menar att det blir förstått för din egen del?
06:42Jo, det blir för allas
06:44För det blir inte bättre för oss
06:46För det är en liten klick
06:48Då blir det för jobb
06:50Och det är det alla redan
06:52Det är några få godar
06:54Och så är det
06:56Så det är inte så märkvärd
06:58När folk kommer till Sverige
07:00Det finns helt enkelt inte
07:02Inte för den som har det mindre
07:04Man har ju inget värde heller
07:06Man får ju inte lämna sina produkter
07:08Då kan man ju inte lega på det
07:10Det har varit samma i skogen
07:12Det har varit dåligt betalt
07:14Men det ska ju bli bättre
07:16Om inte staten tar det
07:18Vad tycker du är
07:20De största problemen
07:22Att vara jordbrukare?
07:24Ja, det är väl
07:26Politiken som det nu är
07:28Att vi är utstötta
07:30Vad menar du med utstötta?
07:32För att vi inte får vara
07:34Vi småbrukare och kostbönder allra helst
07:36Jag tror inte att de där
07:38Större kommunerna är så lyckliga
07:40För då försvinner ju människan
07:42Här, här
07:44Det är så med allting i skolan
07:46Allting där det är mindre
07:48Så tar man mer hänsyn till individen
07:50För det är inte bra när det ska vara stort allting
07:52Då glöms människan ju bort
07:56Känner du dig isolerad här nere?
07:58Nej, jag tycker så med ensamhet
08:00Det är så ljuvligt
08:02Det är bättre att ha få vänner
08:04än att ha många
08:06Och jag är inte osams med någon
08:08Jag är nog vän med alla
08:10Så är det ju inte
08:12Så det tror jag inte
08:14Jag tycker om alla människor
08:16Jag tycker om allting
08:18Man ska inte hata någonting
08:22Det försöker jag lära mina barn
08:24Jag lär dem att man ska inte lita på en människa
08:26Men hästarna kan de lita på
08:28Men människa kan man aldrig lita på riktigt
08:30För det kan...
08:32Det vet man inte hur
08:34Vad hon är ute efter
08:36Det här med dina hästar
08:38Är det din hobby liksom?
08:40Jo, det är liksom min alkoholism
08:42Om jag ska säga det
08:44Och det har ju folk svårt att förstå
08:46Men jag måste ha dem
08:48För annars
08:50Ja, då kan jag så gärna ha ett annat arbete
08:52Ja, dom är så fina och hänsensfulla
08:54Som aldrig en människa jag kan vara
08:56Och pålitliga
08:58Som man aldrig finner en människa som
09:00Egentligen
09:02Är du troende?
09:04Jo, det är jag tror
09:06Som mina förfäder har gjort
09:08Som jag har blivit
09:10Min barndoms gud
09:12Ja, annars
09:14Det är det enda som håller i motgången
09:16I medgången då behövs ju inte
09:18Vår herre
09:20Men jag tycker att
09:22Min far
09:24Han sa en gång när jag skulle
09:26Bada för att gå på dans
09:28Och då sa han det fick jag gå
09:30För det jag just kom till mig
09:32Då sa han det
09:34Jag ska säga en sak
09:36Det är ingen synd att dansa
09:38För han var ju så glad av sig
09:40Men man ska dansa som ett barn
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14:06That's the way it is, but my view is that
14:11now the bonds for the slaughterhouses are no longer valid.
14:15How many sheep do you have responsibility for?
14:22A thousand and twenty.
14:24Which slaughterhouse do you leave the sheep to?
14:29I leave my sheep to Enskede Slaughterhouse.
14:33But isn't there a slaughterhouse here in Gotland?
14:37There is a slaughterhouse association in Gotland.
14:40Why don't you leave the sheep to that slaughterhouse?
14:46The slaughterhouses get less pay for all the meat
14:52than, for example, the producers in the mainland get.
14:57Where do you think that comes from?
14:59It's because we're completely independent.
15:04We have no other way of getting rid of our products.
15:09So we have to take what they offer us.
15:12So you simply mean that the cause is a monopoly situation?
15:16Yes, that's my view.
16:00So all the mail comes here?
16:02Yes, and then I sort it out and put it in his place.
16:07He sorts it out afterwards and puts it in his boxes.
16:14Then he collects it and comes back to show it to me.
16:19Then I take care of it and put it in and count it.
16:23Then the mail is ready.
16:25Is this house you live in a state house?
16:30It's my own house.
16:32Is it your own house?
16:34It's my own house.
16:36I rent it out to the post office for 75 kronor a month.
16:41With electricity and heating and everything.
16:45I've heard rumors that the post office will be shut down.
16:50Yes, all the stations will be shut down.
16:54It's one of the few in Gotland that's still there.
16:59How will it be organized?
17:01From Fårysund, of course.
17:05All the people who have things to do at the post office have to go there?
17:10Yes, we pick up the postman and take him to Fårysund.
17:14What time of year do you like best?
17:17In the summer, of course.
17:19But then we have a lot of work.
17:21In the summer, like last year, when it was beautiful and nice in September.
17:26All the summer guests are gone.
17:28It's a little quiet and calm. It's actually the happiest time of the year.
17:40I want Fårys to be like it's always been.
17:46You don't have electricity or a cell phone?
17:50No, I don't. But it's quiet.
17:53You've never moved from here?
17:56No, I haven't.
17:59I've been around fishing, of course.
18:03I've been to the Swedish Baltic Sea.
18:08I've been to Poland and Russia.
18:11I've been to all of them.
18:14Both Storm and Stiltje.
18:16My father was a fisherman and a sailor.
18:20He was a postman and a ploughman in Sandö, which I did ten years after him.
18:26We left in 1943.
18:30And this Riddaborg you have behind you?
18:33It was a boy's work.
18:39He came from Skåland.
18:42That saw went too far.
18:45It went deep into the nets.
18:47How is fishing now?
18:50Fishing is on the verge.
18:54It's all over Sweden.
18:59Not just here?
19:01It's in the bottom right now.
19:03Not just here, no.
19:05There's always work if you want to work.
19:08There's always work if you want to work.
19:10So that's not a problem.
19:13And then you have to put yourself in your own shoes.
19:16You have to put yourself in your own shoes for the next season.
19:21There's always work.
19:25That's what you have to do.
19:28You don't just have to be at sea or close to the sea.
19:31The Red Cat will soon be fighting with you.
19:34That's for sure.
19:36If you're stuck in a city or in a bigger society, you're done.
19:42You probably won't survive.
19:45But freedom is what people should have.
19:50Who decides which books will be published?
19:53It's done by Foresund.
19:56It's just a subsidiary.
19:59The municipal library is in Foresund.
20:01Can't you make a wish list?
20:04If someone asks for a book and it's not here, I can order it from them.
20:10I get it from Foresund and they send it to me.
20:14What's the best book you can borrow from Foresund?
20:18Well...
20:20I don't know. We had this smuggler's book.
20:24Which one?
20:25The smuggler's book by Hanne Kjell Holgersson.
20:29I've read it a lot this winter.
20:32In 1603, on St. Matthew's Day,
20:36fifteen men went out on the ice to hunt seal fish.
20:41They were Jacob, Christopher, Eskild and Michelnos.
20:45They were also Thomas Butleck,
20:48Anders Austers,
20:50Stefan and Hans Gåsemor,
20:52Rasmus and Hans Simons,
20:54Rasmus Ringvid,
20:56Peder and Bottel Södergård,
20:58and Jörgen and Hansmor.
21:00But luck was against them.
21:02The ice they were on came loose
21:05and without their own will or excuse,
21:08the fifteen men went out to sea.
21:11They ate the seals' meat
21:13and doused their thirst with their blood.
21:16For fourteen days they were there with life.
21:20Finally, God came to their aid
21:23in such a way that the ice drifted towards Sweden
21:27and the countryside near Nyköping.
21:30On St. Matthew's Day,
21:32it returned to its fore-island,
21:35wife, children, house and home.
21:38The artist let the cannons of Visby
21:41give a festive salute
21:43for the sake of the celebration.
21:46On April 20, 1618,
21:49this painting was painted
21:51as a thank-you letter to God
21:53for His gracious mercy.
21:55People who lived on Fårö
21:58lived with a small cottage,
22:01a small piece of land,
22:04potatoes, rye, a pig,
22:07a few lambs,
22:09and eggs,
22:11which you could exchange
22:14for coffee and sugar.
22:17And it went on until the 1950s.
22:22There began to be bigger and bigger boats,
22:26more rational methods and rules,
22:29which meant that those who were younger
22:33and had invested,
22:36didn't do it,
22:38but gave their eggs
22:40to the labor market.
22:42It called for people after the war.
22:45It was a safer and safer relationship
22:48in terms of income and health.
22:52Today, there are large boats
22:55with all kinds of modern equipment,
22:58not only in terms of fishing,
23:01but also in terms of aid,
23:04fishing boats that cost half a million.
23:07When it's impossible to sell,
23:10you understand that the disaster
23:13is not only here,
23:15but the whole West Coast has been affected.
23:19Tourism has great value for the poor.
23:22You don't notice it in the tax havens,
23:25but you notice it in the general well-being.
23:29People can sell to tourists
23:32and get a better life.
23:34If you keep building here,
23:39and bring in lots of people
23:42during the summer months,
23:45it's not just a source of income
23:48for the people living here.
23:51Tourists will also be unhappy,
23:54even if they own a summer house.
23:57No one will enjoy it.
24:00We have the Avanese,
24:02which is in the danger zone.
24:04It's being built out.
24:06I went to pick lingonberries
24:08when I was a little boy.
24:10I sold for ten euros.
24:12As long as I live,
24:14I don't forget what it looks like up there.
24:17It's pine forest, it's jungle,
24:19it's all together.
24:21If you annex it,
24:23you bring in 6,000 people.
24:26They can't go there all the time.
24:29What will be left of it?
24:31If the vegetation disappears,
24:34there may be an increase in forests,
24:37but it won't be natural.
24:42I've longed to come to the lake
24:45for a whole day and take a boat.
24:48I got to experience it last year
24:51when I went to Helsingfors with Finn Hansa.
24:55It was a wonderful day.
24:57I've longed to be at the lake
25:00for a whole day.
25:04It's a lot about a bridge.
25:06What do you think about it?
25:08Yes, I should have been there 100 years ago.
25:12I made a presentation
25:14to the then mayor of Fårö,
25:17in 1943.
25:19They blamed me for the bridge construction
25:22and thought I was crazy.
25:24The earlier the authorities started,
25:27the better it was.
25:29Fårö is...
25:34worse off than Gotland
25:37It's going very well.
25:39I think it's wonderful.
25:41We'll be there at 6 a.m.
25:43and get to the lake at 7 a.m.
25:46That's 1.5 miles.
25:48It's a sick transport.
25:50I can have problems.
25:52Yes.
25:54Many times you have a wish.
25:57Especially when you go to the next ferry.
26:00And here we are.
26:02A permanent connection
26:04between day and night.
26:06It doesn't cost the municipality anything.
27:04Aaaaah!
27:35Cows!
27:39Cows!
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30:58I had a sister who was older. She was born in 1865 in February, and I was born in 1866 in December.
31:16And then I had a sister named Josefina, and she was born in 1869.
31:23And a brother who went to America, he was born in 1872.
31:28And another brother, Viktor Eikman, he was born in 1873.
31:33And my grandfather, he used a lot of firewood for others, and for himself as well.
31:43But the worst thing he did, I think, he took them to dig up the stubble, and drive them, and cut them, and burn the thorns.
31:54And then he would have half of the thorns.
31:58And that didn't make a lot of money.
32:02It was also difficult to get between Storön and Lillön at that time.
32:06Yes, it was an ordinary little rowing boat.
32:10And then they had a bigger ferry that they could take horses in, and they could take a carriage as well,
32:19which they could row or sail over everything, because of the wind.
32:24But they couldn't, with any kind of weather, they couldn't go over anything.
32:29How was that rescue organized at that time?
32:33It was a rowing boat.
32:36That old boat is now up in Ekeviken.
32:40They're going to take it to a museum.
32:44As soon as a report came in, and it was reported,
32:49the boat would go out and give them its help, if they wanted to go ashore.
32:55And if they didn't want to, they had to stay here.
33:00Many times it went well, but again there were accidents.
33:09If we were to rescue a crew, then we had five kronor for that rescue.
33:16And then we had extra exercises twice a year, and then we had 1.50 kronor each time.
33:27What else did you earn money on, directly?
33:30I don't know.
33:32For me, since I grew up, I tried to build houses, to carve and to forge.
33:45So I've been both a smith and a carver.
33:48If someone came to me and wanted some work,
33:53if I agreed and did it, then it was 1.50 kronor or 1 kronor a day.
34:02And that was my daily salary.
34:07From the time I was a smith, I wove cotton and cotton cloths.
34:13But you had to have money to buy thread and things like that.
34:21But in any case, it's been going well for a hundred years.
34:30Yes, of course, I've joined the church.
34:38And I still want to belong to the Swedish church.
34:43I want that.
34:45But wasn't it difficult to get to the church when the weather was bad?
34:50Yes.
34:52It was almost whatever the weather wanted.
34:55When you had decided to go to the church, you went.
35:05One Christmas morning, I had sent a young man here to Salvorim.
35:13He asked me if I wanted to work on Christmas Eve.
35:18But no one wanted to.
35:21People were working on the farm.
35:25They were supposed to come.
35:28It was windy and snowy.
35:33So when we got to Gåsmora, a little past Gåsmora,
35:39my brother and his wife had worked in the snowmobiles.
35:46But we continued to the church. And it went well.
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