That's too heavy for traveling.
- Do you speak any English? - English?
- What's the matter with you? - Come on. Over here.
Ja. Ja. Olaf, come on.
- I thought she understood. - Nice day though.
Those fancy shoes are not for traveling.
Be happy. Uh-
Olaf, how do you-
- Lykkelig. - "Lykkelig" is happy?
- Yeah. - I thought "glede" was happy.
No. That's more like "delighted."
Lykkelig.
Ja. Ja.
"Ducky"?
Grandma?
Inge.
I'm sorry for your loss, Lars.
I can pay you 2.2 million...
And put up 1,200 homes on this land.
It's what your grandparents would want.
- Lars! - Dad told me to bike over and wait for the contract guys.
I didn't want to wake you.
Frozen.
- Come in. - Nah, nah, I don't want to take my boots off.
Hanoi's Vietnam News Agency said a protest message about it...
has been sent to the International Control Commission for Vietnam.
The president has been resting up after 10 strenuous days of his Far Eastern tour.
Tomorrow, he and Mrs. Johnson begin their official two-day visit in Bangkok itself.
You're up.
Olaf Torvik was a caring, giving man...
And I know we'll always remember him.
- He came from Norway in 19- - Very peaceful.
- 1910? - It has lovely sunlight.
And homesteaded his farm the next year.
He cleared the land with the resolution...
- Welcome, everyone. - of a pioneer.
A true settler in the best sense of the word...
creating civilization out of the wilderness.
- Inge? - Most of all, we remember his great love for Inge...
- Did you make this pie? - his wife of 48 years.
No, this is not mine.
You know that pie?
Olaf died, Frandsen.
You remember?
Mom, Palmquists are coming to pick up the casket for the burial tomorrow.
- Now? - Yeah.
Where does he stay for the night?
I suppose down at the-
I don't know what they do, Mom.
He belongs here with me.
Well, that doesn't make any sense.
I can't stay here. We've got the chores-
I don't need you to stay. He belongs here though.
Lars?
What's filling your head?
Ah.
What?
I'm not sure what to do.
Lars.
Get yourself and Frandsen a piece of pie.
It's you?
Why are "lykkelig"...
And "glede" different?
Different kinds of happy.
It's really good.
Different kinds of happy.
"I... could...
Eat... a horse."
"I could...
Eat a horse."
"I could eat a horse."
"A horse."
"I could eat a horse."
But English now.
Oh.
No English, me.
English?
"Dear Elsa"? "Dear Elsa"? Else?
- Else Jorgensdatter. - Else Jorgensdatter.
Inge. Inge Altenberg.
Altenberg?
- Here. - Great.
Just sign this. There.
Immigration?
Do you have farms in the area?
Hello.
Ah.
Do you know about our organization? Well, you should.
'Cause it's in your best interest. We are suffragists.
- Immigration? - It should interest you.
- Suffragists. - Suffragists.
Yeah. We're unified to ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution-
The American Constitution- so everyone can vote, especially women.
That's what it's for. Here you go. Just sign this.
Thank you. Just sign your name.
This is very important.
We all have to able to decide on how we participate in our community, right?
We were opposed to the war, of course...
But we don't try to say that too loudly here because people might get the wrong idea.
Might think that you're a sympathizer, or something worse- a lousy German.
- Yes. - Yeah.
Okay.
Mister, you... read?
Yeah, sure.
Uh- "Dear Else...
I write to you with bad news."
Uh- "The bank has foreclosed...
"on my farm, and I have been evicted.
"I hope you receive this letter in time. Do not come now.
Jostein Amundsen." Amundsen?
Do you understand this?
Understand? Do you understand this?
Amundsen- no, no.
He's-Amundsen is not here.
He's not coming. He's not here.
Uh-
Come with me. I can help you. Come on.
Come on. Come here.
This way.
Wait.
This way.
Are you from Snasa? Snasa!
Ja. Inge. Snasa.
- You are from Snasa? - Ja! Snasa! Inge!
- You are here. - Ja.
- Hello. - Hello.
- Hello. Inge.
Snasa.
It's locked!
I know!
Inge from Snasa.
Olaf Torvik?
Ah.
Thanks.
Long trip, eh?
Ships are hideous. Give me dry land any day.
I was just five years old when we came across.
- When I came, they checked us for sickness at Ellis Island. - Ellis Island?
Yeah. All the doctors were German.
All they said was "tak."
Working in the United States of America, you'd think they'd learn English. Tak.
They rolled my eyelids back with a matchstick.
Did they do that to you?
We didn't have a picture of you, so we didn't know what you look like.
Inge from Snasa! You could've looked like anything, eh?
I think you ought to like waking up in the morning and looking at your wife.
I said to him, "If we don't know what she looks like, she shouldn't come."
We should have a photo first.
You're ducky.
I got it.
- No regrets! - "Ducky"?
Uh, it's a made-up word, like, uh-
It means "good."
- Duck, good. - Yeah.
Yeah. Anyways, uh, here is the place.
I'll get it.
Thanks.
That's too heavy for traveling.
Do you speak any English?
- English? - Ah. That much.
Deutsch? Talk Deutsch?
No! No. No German around here.
Welcome. Welcome, Inge.
Inge from Snasa.
- I'm Minister Sorrensen. Welcome. - Hello.
- Frandsen. - Hello.
Olaf. Olaf Torvik. Are you ready?
Olaf?
Ja. Olaf Torvik.
- Olaf? - Mm-hmm.
Uh, Frandsen. Alvin Frandsen.
- Alvin Frandsen. - Just Frandsen.
Just Inge.
I thought she understood.
Come in. Come in.
Inge, even though you've never met this man...
Olaf...
Are you ready to get married?
No, no. Only English in the church. Only English.
Um, she only speaks this much English.
- Uh- - Well-
Yes?
Spricht Deutsch?
Deutsch?
English only in the church. English.
Your parents sent you a girl to be married, they didn't tell you she was German?
- I didn't know. - How could you not know?
My parents wrote me that there was a girl who would be good to marry.
We were at war with Germany.
Yes, Frandsen?
Martin Luther was German.
German.
She is not one of us.
We speak a common language, we have a common background, common culture.
She is not one of us.
Do- Do you have papers? Papers?
- Immigration? - Immigration?
Ja.
But this says that you're a member of the Socialist party.
- Ja. - She's a member of the Socialist party!
Olaf! This is-
- No, no. No, I'm sorry. - No?
There can be no wedding ceremony today. Not today. No.
What you need to do immediately is to go and see Judge Sundby.
Come.
There will be no ceremony this afternoon at all.
The judge. That's all the way over in the county seat.
It'll be okay. Uh-
Maybe we can stay with my wife's cousin. You hungry? Hungry?
Uh, I could eat a horse.
Come, Inge Altenberg, to eat.
Ja, Olaf. Judge Sundby.
Ja. Okay. Thank you.
Hey, look.
My cousin, Hanse, lived there after the bank took away his farm.
After a week, he came out onto those steps and blew his head off.
- Boom! - Boom?
Yeah.
German. What were you thinking of, Torvik?
I didn't know.
With a name like Altenberg, how could you not know?
- Where's that herring? - I didn't-
Mmm. Did you hear the one...
About the man who went to the man with no pants?
- No. - Frandsen, how is the crop?
- Good. Good. - Good. And the family?
Like the crop.
She doesn't look German.
Pretty eyes.
But bewitching.
Devious.
That's the giveaway- those eyes.
Mmm, judge?
Uh, banker.
But he also owns the, uh, grain elevator...
and the insurance.
My friend- Um-
My wife's... cousin.
Judge?
That'll be the day. But I do own the only steam tractor in the state.
Full of hot air.
But we will go to the judge tomorrow. For sure, for sure, for sure.
"For sure, for sure"?
Means, "for sure, for sure, for sure."
Never bless the day until it's done.
Charming for farming, but in business...
You've got to make plans.
Business and farming don't mix.
I'll get the bags from the car.
How's the crop, really?
Really good.
It had better be.
- Okay? - Okay.
Okay.
"Women are considered chattel of the husband or father, and it is assumed...
That citizenship is the same as the husband or father."
Immigrations Code 623.3. B.
We just want to be married.
I don't know who this woman is without the correct papers.
So give us the papers. We'll go home. I have work to do.
I didn't write 623.3. B.
Yes?
- Can we see the judge? - Judge.
She'll have to take a literacy test...
And for that she'll need to know English.
- Was that Norwegian she was speaking? - She is German.
German?
I'll see if Judge is available.
Anyways, the judge says we have to be careful about this sort of thing.
- What sort of thing? - German nationals.
German nationals engage in prostitution, they encourage polygamy...
They harbor dangerous political convictions.
Are you aware of the Espionage Act of 1916?
You think she's a spy?
Well, I'll tell you what's in her favor-
She's not Chinese.
Nice day though.
Olaf, come on.
Help the lady.
Ja.
- Ducky. - Ah, ducky.
Hey, let's make a photo.
- No, I have work. - Oh, shut your trap about the work, Olaf.
And give me the whole shooting match with the Kodak dingus. You know it won't work for me.
It's just here. You got it?
We're gonna make a photo. Uh-
- Fotographie? - Yeah, yeah. Come on, Olaf.
Come on.
Here.
- Uh- - Move your hands, Frandsen.
Here. I want your mug, Olaf.
Those fancy shoes are not for traveling.
Uh, be happy. Uh, Olaf, how do you-
- Lykkelig. - "Lykkelig" is happy?
- Yeah. - I thought "glede"was happy.
Uh, that's more like "delighted."
Oh. Happy. Delighted, eh?
- Happy. Delighted. - What's the difference?
- There's no difference. - So, why have two words then?
Hmm?
Happy. Delighted.
What about "ducky"? That's a good word.
- Ducky? Ja. - Ducky.
Uh, now, Olaf, put your mug here.
You balled up. I only have one piece of film.
Yeah.
- Not ducky. - Not ducky?
No. Come on.
No, no, no.
Uh, no. You, uh, sleep. Olaf, tell her.
Frandsen? No.
Olaf, no.
Are you sure you want to marry this one?
Maybe she's right. She just wants a bathroom. What difference does it make?
Do you have any idea what your neighbors would say?
Where will you go to church? You'd have to drive clear to Minneapolis to buy your seed.
Goddamn this whole goddamn mess!
Until we get married, you go with Frandsen.
You are, uh-
You are-
- Behaving badly. - You are behaving badly.
You are the one who is doing that thing that you are telling me I am doing.
Okay, okay, okay.
Okay, okay.
Olaf! You gotta start my car!
Inge, come on.
Come on.
Inge from Snasa!
Welcome, Inge. Oh!
I'm Marta, Frandsen's wife. Call me Brownie.
- Brownie. - Brownie. Welcome.
I'll bet you need a bath.
- Bad? - Bath.
- Bad. - Hey! It's a hot day. We all need a bath bad.
Especially after all you've been through.
Uh, Inge, a bigger, better, faster way to farm.
- Big- - Bigger, better, faster.
- That's right.
You hungry?
- Hungry? - I could eat a horse.
We can find that.
- After you. - Where's Olaf?
Uh, Inge.
Her mother's mother, uh- German.
- Uh, Tysk. - Deutsch?
No. No. I'm an American. My mother's mother was German.
My mother's father was Irish. My father had Ojibwa blood.
But I- I'm an American.
Mmm... tysk?
No, no. All clean. All clean.
American. Uh, her mother's mother-
Yeah, mother's-
American. American.
Okay. Who would like a ride on the tractor?
Me! Me!
- Brownie, will ya- - Yeah. Start the tractor? Sure.
Whoo-hoo.
Come on, darling. You can be first. You got five miles of road on you.
- No. Okay. - Okay.
Suit yourself.
All right, sweetie pops.
Go to Mommy. There you go.
Come on. Good girl. Inge?
A mighty fortress is our God
A bulwark never failing
Our helper He amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing
For still our ancient foe
All right, no batter now. No batter.
Good eye! Good eye! Good eye!
Olaf, go eat something. Get some muscle.
I got the ball. Here you go.
All right. Look at this big bat.
Oh, left-handed.
Ho!
All right.
Ho!
That was perfect. What more do you want for a pitch?
I know it's not a horse, but-
Uh, baseball.
Ah. Aha.
There we are.
See? Isn't that pretty?
I know this.
"You're trying...
"to pull...
My leg."
Do you have pie in Germany?
Uh- Pie? No.
We can have a slice after it's cooled.
Yes.
So, uh...
You have no family left?
Now alone, yes.
Were you married? Married?
No. Not, uh, papers.
Not citizenship.
No, no, no. No. Were you married before...
In Germany- married?
No. No.
Um, men?
- Men? - No.
No men.
No.
Have some pie.
Mmm.
Oh, this is good.
- Mmm. - Mm-hmm.
Mmm.
Hey, hey. You can't be here.
From tonight.
- You slept here? - Ja.
Oh, God.
The judge.
They said it is forbidden.
Uh-
Hello?
Hello.
Ja. Hello.
You took a bath?
Tung- heavy.
Ah!
My barn.
I have music. You like music?
Music? From my papa.
Uh, I have music.
For help- building.
I bring music?