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Tallin film
1983

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THE CITY OF THE HONEYMASTERS

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Scenario & direction Heino Pars
Text writer Jüri Tuulik

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Art director Halja Klaar
Camera Arvo Nuut

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Puppets:

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Music:
Sound:

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Consultants:

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Text editor:
Producer:

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I want milk! Milk!
Milk?

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Only newly borns get milk.

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You're already 4 days old 
so you will eat bee bread

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which is made from honey and pollen.
Don't want to!

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Who are you?
Me?  I'm your wet nurse.

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I want my mommy!

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You silly bee!

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There are many of us but 
we have only 1 single mother.

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Including me there are 
50,000 of us in this hive.

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In spring hundreds of bees are born each day

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so by summer there's 80,000 of us.

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Shush! The little ones are sleeping.
- I know they're sleeping.

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They will sleep for 12 days in a row
and awake as adult bees.

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Good night!

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 Hello!
- Hello!

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Congratulations!
- Why congratulations!

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Because today's our birthday.

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What are you doing?

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Look at the work calendar.
For first 2 days you'll be a janitor.

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Janitor?
I Don't feel like it.

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Mother's coming!

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Look, in my jug there's an egg.
From that a new bee will be born.

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Mine doesn't have one.

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You left your jug uncleaned.

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Whatever!

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Lazy as a blowfly.
So, I'll be a wet nurse now.

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 for 1... 2... 3... 4... 11 days

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You call that dancing?!

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 I'll out-dance you all!

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Where now?

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Not good.
This is going to mean trouble.

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How so?
Didn't I dance well?

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With dancing bees show each other
where the richest harvesting area is located.

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They won't be happy about this!

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I'm out of here.

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He fooled us.
- Let's give him a hammering!

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Cheater!
Let's show him!

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Charge!

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They're gone.

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There are 100,000 honeycombs in our city.

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Pure honey!

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1 bee will fill 4 to 5 honeycombs during her life

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In human tongue that's "2 grams of honey"

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Stop it!

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You'll swell and burst from all that knowledge.
- Knowledge is an invaluable asset.

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Where do you think you're going?!
The soldiers will sting you to death.

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Let me go!

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You, speedy Vilgas!
- Don't you see, young Põnn?

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It's the new mother's cradle.

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Quickly!
Let's get out of here!

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Now we're going to be wet nurses

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for our new mother.

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This one eats a lot.

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A mother gets only royal jelly.

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That's why she grows fast
and lives very long, several years.

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Wow! Honey from all over the world.
Let's try!

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No-no, take from the other jug.

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In this one I'm still making the honey.

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Very good.

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Why do your honeys have different colors?

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Because our gatherers 
bring nectar from different flowers.

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From heather nectar we'll make dark honey,

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from clover nectar a lighter one.

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And here they're taking in food for the journey.

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Where are they traveling?

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The old city-mother goes out to start a new city.

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I see.

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Speedy Vilgas, let's go with them.
- No, young Põnn, we'll stay here.

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Let's fly! Let's go

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And they're gone.

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I would really like to try flying.

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Let's try.

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How exciting!
- Fantastic!

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Tomorrow we'll fly harvesting.
- Let's do that.

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Põnn! Põnn!
- What is it?

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Listen, our new mother is singing.

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A Wasp!
A Pirate!

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Young Põnn! Awesome!
You did well.

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No big deal.

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I'm going harvesting now.

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You rest!

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Wet-nurse! What's wrong with you?

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My 35 days of life are coming to an end.

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I'll get you into the beehive,
you're tired.

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Thank you!

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I won't come into the hive anymore.

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Just push me over the edge.

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Wait.

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Deliver those.

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Thank you!
My days are numbered

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but I managed to gather
plenty of nectar for my family.

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Hello!
I greet you!

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Hello, Mother!

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When all the meadows and gardens are blooming
the hive won't follow the standard work calendar.

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Everybody flies out to harvest.

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To fill the harvesting buckets,

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up to 100 flowers need to be visited.

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Oh. That was tiresome.

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But the buckets are filled to the brink.

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Try it!

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What's happening here?
A wedding?

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The wedding of the young mother.
They're flying on their honeymoon.

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Mother has a single big concern:
That the hive will never be empty.

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She gives out one new life after another 
as an endowment to the hive.
This way...

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...up to 2,000 new bees 
can be born in a single day.

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Yes, she's the soul of our family.

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To get 1KG of honey, floral nectar has to be 
collected from 20 milion blossoms,

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by which we...

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Pretty but stupid.

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The End
Subtitles by eus. april 2018
Translation by borderliner