Tove Jansson & Friends - 1970 - (Bad) English Subtitles

This video is from the 1970 film "On monia asioita, joita ei voi ymmärtää" ("There are many things that cannot be understood") directed by Carl Mesterton. It features Tove Jansson spending an evening with her friends Erna Tauro, Birgitta Ulfsson, Lasse Pöysti, Gunvor Sandqvist, and Bo Andersson (also her cat Psipsina makes an appearance!)

I got this from YLE where it already had the Finnish subtitles and I translated them very poorly into English using mainly Google, so please keep in mind that it's not completely accurate!! I'm sure there'll be a bunch of comments from Finnish & Swedish speakers pointing out all the stuff that's wrong, lol.

I ended up using the word "lyrics" instead of "text" a lot though really the latter would be more accurate,, sorry.

I think the conversations they have are super interesting and I particularly love the one she has with Erna. It took me absolutely ages to edit this and I want other English-speaking Tove fans to appreciate it so I really hope it doesn't get taken down. If so, I'll try uploading it onto drive or something.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Tove & friends talking about her attic studio and her career as an artist, writer, and lyricist

08:04 - Birgitta Ulfsson performing an extract of Konstberiderskan

08:54 - Tove & friends discussing her handwriting (at the end they press her to draw and she asks Lasse to sing; I've posted this clip before and it should show up in a card at this point)

11:49 - Bo Andersson performing an extract of Si-och-Så Visan

12:50 - Tove & Erna talking about composing songs

23:29 - Lasse Pöysti performing an extract of Psykofnattvisan

24:28 - Bo Andersson performing an extract of Höstvisa

[ladypipflemmbini]

Who else is excited for Tove (2020)? I know I am!!

[citruslimonia]

Thanks a lot for this! I really love to get to know more about Tove :)

[rijecikojelijece]

Bosnians love Moomins so much 🤗🤗🤗🇧🇦🇩🇰❤

[semirecumbentoneYT]

Tove the movie has been strongly critisized, I don't recommend it (as Finnish-Swedish like Tove myself) instead, these nice memory clips and her short Klovharun (summer cottage and home) video is a much better way to remember her and respect her work : )