The Emigrants (1971)

Pierre Lindstedt: Arvid

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• Arvid : What do you think it will cost to ship us there?

  Robert : Around 200 riksdaler.

  Arvid : Ya, well, might as well forget it. 200 riksdaler. I'll never have that much.

  Robert : You don't have it?

  Arvid : I will go anyway. We can travel to America on foot.

  Robert : Nah, there's an ocean. You can't go on foot to America.

  Arvid : Do you mean there is no way?

  Robert : I'm afraid there is not. America is an island.

  Arvid : Damned ocean.

• Arvid : Last year the parson asked who our lords and masters are. But, I couldn't answer him.

  Robert : All of our lords and our masters, besides our parents, are those God has ordained to have a fatherly power over us...

  Arvid : Is that the truth?

  Robert : Do you know how many lords and masters we have over us - in the whole world?

  Arvid : Nah.

  Robert : The first is the King, Oskar the First; the second is the Governor; the third is the Chief Constable; the fourth is the Sheriff, Lönnegren; and the fifth is his Deputy; and the sixth will be the Parson; and the seventh, Aron, our master.

  Arvid : Why, that's a lot of lords.

• Arvid : I think I sell myself as a slave when I'm in America.

  Robert : Its forbidden for whites to get sold as slaves.

  Arvid : Forbidden? But, you were just saying that America's a free country?

  Robert : Ya. But, still that is forbidden, I'm afraid, for whites, that is.