The Japanese Painting

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0:01:42 > 0:01:45Team building.

0:02:04 > 0:02:07The estimate is 100,000.

0:02:57 > 0:02:59Any bids proceeding 540,000?

0:04:26 > 0:04:30A Japanese shunga painting, signed and dated by Shigemasa, 1873.

0:04:30 > 0:04:33The estimate is 25,000.

0:04:42 > 0:04:4440,000, 45,000.

0:05:30 > 0:05:34It seems that I'm constantly putting my clothes in your way.

0:05:34 > 0:05:35Please, have a seat.

0:05:40 > 0:05:42Marie Lisowska.

0:05:42 > 0:05:44Hans Sperling, from Germany.

0:05:44 > 0:05:46I wouldn't have guessed.

0:05:46 > 0:05:49- And you are from Poland? - No, absolutely not.

0:05:49 > 0:05:53Well, I was married to a Pole, very briefly.

0:05:53 > 0:05:55Now, I need a drink.

0:05:55 > 0:05:57Oh, it's on me, please.

0:05:57 > 0:05:59What would you like to drink?

0:05:59 > 0:06:01A glass of white, dry wine, please.

0:06:03 > 0:06:07Excuse me. A glass of white, dry wine, please.

0:06:08 > 0:06:10- Thank you.- You're welcome.

0:06:10 > 0:06:13And you're a collector?

0:06:13 > 0:06:16Yes, if my wallet so permits.

0:06:16 > 0:06:18I have a couple of shunga paintings.

0:06:18 > 0:06:23None is signed, so when I heard this from here...

0:06:23 > 0:06:25Oh, you came to Stockholm just to bid on the painting?

0:06:25 > 0:06:27Yes.

0:06:27 > 0:06:28I'm sorry.

0:06:36 > 0:06:39- Well...cheers.- Cheers.

0:06:45 > 0:06:47And you collect erotic art, too?

0:06:47 > 0:06:50No, I bought it on the behalf of a client.

0:06:50 > 0:06:53I am...an art agent.

0:06:53 > 0:06:54Uh-huh.

0:06:54 > 0:06:57- Was this your first visit at Bukowski's?- Yes.

0:06:57 > 0:07:00What did you think?

0:07:00 > 0:07:04You obviously have prearranged biddings here, too.

0:07:04 > 0:07:07Very observant, I must say.

0:07:07 > 0:07:10They're usually very discreet in the ring.

0:07:10 > 0:07:12You could feel it in the air.

0:07:14 > 0:07:15And you call it "the ring"?

0:07:15 > 0:07:17Yes, yes.

0:07:17 > 0:07:20We have the same phenomenon in Germany, too.

0:07:21 > 0:07:24But why did they let the shunga painting go?

0:07:24 > 0:07:27Well, the price went too high, and...

0:07:27 > 0:07:30because I was the one who bid on it.

0:07:30 > 0:07:33Well, they know I have financial muscle behind me,

0:07:33 > 0:07:36and their interest is to keep the bidding low.

0:07:37 > 0:07:39And, well, that's what the ring's for.

0:07:39 > 0:07:41- Yeah. A rather sordid business.- Mmm.

0:07:41 > 0:07:43But difficult to get at.

0:07:43 > 0:07:46I know some of them who were there.

0:07:46 > 0:07:49None of them would ever admit to what they're doing.

0:07:49 > 0:07:51No.

0:07:53 > 0:07:54May I ask...

0:07:55 > 0:07:58Is it only Japanese shunga paintings you collect?

0:08:00 > 0:08:03Everything with an erotic motive.

0:08:03 > 0:08:06- Interesting.- Yes, isn't it?

0:08:07 > 0:08:12Well, I actually have a customer who had some...etchings that just

0:08:12 > 0:08:15- might interest you. - Because of their motive?

0:08:15 > 0:08:17Yes.

0:08:18 > 0:08:21They're... He was about to sell them just recently,

0:08:21 > 0:08:22but something got in the way.

0:08:22 > 0:08:25They're of a rather high quality.

0:08:25 > 0:08:29A bit of the more...censored kind.

0:08:29 > 0:08:31Sounds tempting.

0:08:31 > 0:08:33But unfortunately I have to go back tomorrow.

0:08:33 > 0:08:35Oh, you know, I'm going

0:08:35 > 0:08:38to receive a couple of Chagall lithographs coming here to me

0:08:38 > 0:08:42just in a while, for a customer who wants to have a look at them, and...

0:08:42 > 0:08:45Well, perhaps I can get the prints here at the same time.

0:08:45 > 0:08:46- Yeah, why not?- Yes.

0:08:46 > 0:08:49What price level are we talking about?

0:08:49 > 0:08:51We can talk about that when you've seen them.

0:08:51 > 0:08:53OK.

0:08:53 > 0:08:57Shall we have dinner here at, let's say...9 o'clock?

0:08:57 > 0:08:59Yes, let's do that.

0:09:00 > 0:09:02OK, cheers.

0:09:02 > 0:09:04Cheers.

0:09:08 > 0:09:10- Goodbye, then.- Goodbye.

0:09:10 > 0:09:14Oh, I live in room 119. Just in case anything crops up.

0:11:44 > 0:11:46Excuse me, please.

0:11:46 > 0:11:50Could you call Marie Lisowska? It's 119, I believe.

0:11:50 > 0:11:52Room 119?

0:11:52 > 0:11:55Yes, that's right. One moment.

0:12:03 > 0:12:05There's no answer. Sorry.

0:12:07 > 0:12:08Thank you.

0:12:48 > 0:12:52Excuse me, could you please call Marie Lisowska again?

0:12:52 > 0:12:53Certainly.

0:12:53 > 0:12:55- It's room 119, right?- Right.

0:13:02 > 0:13:04Sorry, there's still no answer.

0:13:04 > 0:13:07- She hasn't checked out, has she?- No.

0:13:07 > 0:13:09- OK. Thank you.- Thank you.

0:13:24 > 0:13:28PHONE RINGS

0:14:24 > 0:14:26LAUGHTER

0:14:59 > 0:15:01The Woman And The Roses.

0:15:41 > 0:15:43The Woman And The Roses?

0:17:13 > 0:17:16PHONE RINGS

0:17:19 > 0:17:21Hello?

0:19:18 > 0:19:21Who bought that painting yesterday at the auction?

0:19:43 > 0:19:47The man who bought that is part of what they, in Swedish,

0:19:47 > 0:19:50- call "a ring". - How do you know that?

0:19:50 > 0:19:54Because I was there yesterday and I observed the man, and I think it

0:19:54 > 0:19:57would be in your interest as well as in the interest

0:19:57 > 0:20:00of your customers if you disclosed that man.

0:21:06 > 0:21:10DISTANT SIREN WAILS

0:23:05 > 0:23:09PHONE RINGS

0:30:08 > 0:30:14MALE VOICES SING: # But come you back when summer's in the meadow

0:30:16 > 0:30:22# Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow

0:30:24 > 0:30:26# Tis I'll be... #

0:31:14 > 0:31:22# Oh Danny Boy, I love you so. #

0:32:29 > 0:32:32# Oh Danny boy,

0:32:32 > 0:32:37# The pipes, the pipes are calling

0:32:37 > 0:32:40# From glen to glen

0:32:40 > 0:32:43# And down the mountainside... #

0:39:42 > 0:39:44PHONE RECEIVES TEXT

0:40:07 > 0:40:10CAMERA CLICKS REPEATEDLY

0:40:50 > 0:40:52DOG BARKS

0:41:07 > 0:41:10I hope I do not complicate things for you.

0:41:10 > 0:41:13Not at all. We're just grateful for your help.

0:41:13 > 0:41:17So, I'm not on Gunvald Larsson's list of suspects any longer?

0:41:17 > 0:41:19You've never been on that list.

0:41:19 > 0:41:21Have you been in contact with Germany?

0:41:21 > 0:41:23Yes.

0:41:23 > 0:41:25But I haven't mentioned that I'm part of a

0:41:25 > 0:41:27Swedish murder investigation.

0:41:27 > 0:41:28How come?

0:41:28 > 0:41:32Because I'm not quite sure in what way I'm part of it. Are you?

0:41:32 > 0:41:33No.

0:41:33 > 0:41:34Are you?

0:41:34 > 0:41:36No.

0:41:36 > 0:41:38Maybe it would be the best if I went home.

0:41:38 > 0:41:40No. Not yet.

0:41:41 > 0:41:45This investigation concerns areas where your knowledge is far

0:41:45 > 0:41:46better than mine.

0:41:46 > 0:41:48The world of art is not my speciality.

0:41:50 > 0:41:52And what is your speciality?

0:41:52 > 0:41:56- Harmony singing. - LAUGHTER

0:42:55 > 0:42:58PHONE RINGS

0:56:40 > 0:56:42Hello?

0:57:08 > 0:57:11HE POURS WINE

1:02:17 > 1:02:22Nice to meet you, and welcome to my castle.

1:02:22 > 1:02:25You see, normally, my collection is open for the public just

1:02:25 > 1:02:29a couple of hours during weekends, but, for you, I make an exception.

1:02:32 > 1:02:34But who's he?

1:02:34 > 1:02:36He's the one who does the driving.

1:02:36 > 1:02:37He's Swedish.

1:02:37 > 1:02:39I see. I see.

1:02:39 > 1:02:42Well, just a few principle rules.

1:02:42 > 1:02:45Cellphones are normally not allowed in the castle, it's a

1:02:45 > 1:02:49policy I have. And, um...

1:02:49 > 1:02:52I have a metal detector in the doorframe, hmm?

1:02:54 > 1:02:57Because the other year there was a madman slashing

1:02:57 > 1:03:02one of my Matisse paintings into pieces with a large knife.

1:03:17 > 1:03:23It's most stimulating to meet a genuine connoisseur,

1:03:23 > 1:03:25doesn't happen every day, you know.

1:03:25 > 1:03:27Most of the people are coming here for the erotic collection

1:03:27 > 1:03:32out of more pornographic pretexts, I fancy.

1:03:32 > 1:03:34Yes, probably.

1:03:34 > 1:03:36I've taken a fancy to the shunga paintings,

1:03:36 > 1:03:39and I've heard you have a couple of them.

1:03:39 > 1:03:44Oh, yes. Yes, yes. But none of them is signed, though.

1:03:44 > 1:03:47You don't get them very often.

1:03:47 > 1:03:51- I saw one quite recently. - Oh, you mean the one at Bukowski's?

1:03:52 > 1:03:56That is the reason why I am here in Sweden.

1:03:56 > 1:03:57Oh, so you bid for it.

1:03:57 > 1:03:59Yes.

1:03:59 > 1:04:02But it was some other collector who got it.

1:04:02 > 1:04:04Uh-huh. What did it go for?

1:04:04 > 1:04:0655,000.

1:04:06 > 1:04:10Oh, that's a reasonable price.

1:04:10 > 1:04:12Hmm. For the seller or the buyer?

1:04:12 > 1:04:15For both, I hope.

1:04:15 > 1:04:17But it had a tragic end, though.

1:04:19 > 1:04:21What do you mean?

1:04:21 > 1:04:24The woman who purchased the shunga, she was an art agent.

1:04:25 > 1:04:28And she was murdered that very same evening.

1:04:29 > 1:04:33She was sitting right beside me at the auction.

1:04:33 > 1:04:35No, that is terrible.

1:04:38 > 1:04:40Do you think it's in connection with her purchase...?

1:04:40 > 1:04:44No, no, no, no, no. The shunga? No, why should that be?

1:04:44 > 1:04:45No.

1:04:47 > 1:04:51But you don't know on whose behalf she bought it?

1:04:51 > 1:04:53Well, I can't say I know.

1:04:53 > 1:04:55But you have an idea.

1:04:55 > 1:04:57Yes.

1:04:58 > 1:05:00Jovan Andrecz.

1:08:07 > 1:08:11There are some sensual motives here, hmm?

1:08:11 > 1:08:12There really are.

1:08:13 > 1:08:16And quite some money invested.

1:08:16 > 1:08:18I can see that.

1:09:03 > 1:09:08My body shouldn't really be exposed to this kind of visual orgasm.

1:09:09 > 1:09:13May I invite you to stay for supper?

1:09:13 > 1:09:15It sounds tempting.

1:09:15 > 1:09:18But I have to consult my chauffeur whether we shall...

1:09:18 > 1:09:21He will naturally get an excellent meal,

1:09:21 > 1:09:23together with the rest of the staff.

1:09:25 > 1:09:27We have an invitation for dinner.

1:09:27 > 1:09:28Very good.

1:09:31 > 1:09:32Right.

1:09:32 > 1:09:33Martin.

1:11:05 > 1:11:08All my dead wines.

1:11:09 > 1:11:13It's my little speciality.

1:11:14 > 1:11:18Wines that are over-aged

1:11:18 > 1:11:20and gone dead.

1:11:20 > 1:11:23Very exclusive,

1:11:23 > 1:11:26very expensive wines.

1:11:37 > 1:11:41I'm very aware that my taste for dead wines is shared only by

1:11:41 > 1:11:44a very few people in the world.

1:11:44 > 1:11:45I'm one of them.

1:11:57 > 1:12:00A touch of cold shark fin.

1:12:00 > 1:12:03A drop of old vinegar.

1:12:03 > 1:12:04Very nice.

1:12:11 > 1:12:13- Oh! - Oh, oh, oh, oh!

1:12:13 > 1:12:15Oh, I'm so sorry.

1:12:16 > 1:12:20It's so unusual that I...I meet someone who...

1:12:20 > 1:12:22I am unusual.

1:12:24 > 1:12:26Yes.

1:12:26 > 1:12:28Yes, you really are.

1:13:17 > 1:13:21The kidney's marinated in Barola and then baked in the oven,

1:13:21 > 1:13:23wrapped in a garlic crust.

1:13:44 > 1:13:47Excuse me for a second.

1:13:47 > 1:13:49It will just take a short while.

1:13:49 > 1:13:52Enjoy yourself during the meantime.

1:13:55 > 1:13:59SIRENS WAIL

1:14:02 > 1:14:04BECK RECEIVES A TEXT MESSAGE

1:16:39 > 1:16:41GUNVALD CRIES OUT IN PAIN

1:17:10 > 1:17:14You have to excuse me for this interruption, but you see,

1:17:14 > 1:17:19as an art dealer for the whole world, I have to be available

1:17:19 > 1:17:20at all times.

1:17:21 > 1:17:22Hans...

1:17:24 > 1:17:28..I must ask you a question.

1:17:28 > 1:17:29Do you have any phobias?

1:17:31 > 1:17:33On the erotic plane?

1:17:33 > 1:17:35Oh, no. Generally speaking.

1:17:36 > 1:17:38Phobias.

1:17:39 > 1:17:41No, I can't say I have.

1:17:41 > 1:17:43Why?

1:17:43 > 1:17:44Have you?

1:17:44 > 1:17:47Yes.

1:17:47 > 1:17:48One.

1:17:51 > 1:17:52And what is it?

1:17:53 > 1:17:56That somebody I've taken a liking to,

1:17:56 > 1:18:00who I thought was a refined person...

1:18:01 > 1:18:05..suddenly turns out to be someone completely different.

1:18:08 > 1:18:10Hmm. A split personality.

1:18:10 > 1:18:12Or...

1:18:12 > 1:18:15A simple personality...

1:18:16 > 1:18:20..who tries to play a game he doesn't master at all.

1:18:20 > 1:18:22Sounds like a very unpleasant phobia.

1:18:24 > 1:18:26It is.

1:18:27 > 1:18:32Would you like to see a tipple of art history before the main course?

1:18:32 > 1:18:34It is...

1:18:34 > 1:18:36What shall I call it?

1:18:36 > 1:18:40A biological still life.

1:18:51 > 1:18:53PIPE CREAKS

1:19:24 > 1:19:27Nor In This Case...

1:19:27 > 1:19:29Goya. The Civil War.

1:19:31 > 1:19:37One of his most powerful etchings. Don't you think it's formidable?

1:19:39 > 1:19:42Well, it's not... It's not an erotic motive, but...

1:19:44 > 1:19:49..for us who like dead, dead wines,

1:19:49 > 1:19:53a morbid motive has its own special fascination,

1:19:53 > 1:19:56don't you think so? Hmm?

1:19:57 > 1:20:01Well, how do you want to be displayed?

1:20:01 > 1:20:03Hmm?

1:20:03 > 1:20:06The sheer volume of your body makes...

1:20:06 > 1:20:08It's most inspiring.

1:20:09 > 1:20:11Rembrandt, perhaps.

1:20:14 > 1:20:18Do you know that he painted a little bit behind the scenes?

1:20:18 > 1:20:21Some erotic motives.

1:20:21 > 1:20:24Or, well..some nudes.

1:20:25 > 1:20:27Including...

1:20:27 > 1:20:32a little oil painting with a young woman...

1:20:32 > 1:20:35cutting up the belly...

1:20:35 > 1:20:38on a fat...

1:20:38 > 1:20:40pregnant...

1:20:40 > 1:20:42sow.

1:20:43 > 1:20:46LEVENDAHL CHUCKLES

1:20:46 > 1:20:48Well, one could...

1:20:48 > 1:20:51One could replace the woman...

1:20:53 > 1:20:55..with a naked chauffeur.

1:20:57 > 1:20:59Oh, talking of which,

1:20:59 > 1:21:02your...chauffeur...

1:21:02 > 1:21:05asked one of my guards...

1:21:06 > 1:21:07..to give you this.

1:21:32 > 1:21:35Well, I had to silence Marie

1:21:35 > 1:21:38because she was very close to discovering what

1:21:38 > 1:21:40Sun and I were doing.

1:21:41 > 1:21:44But she was a beautiful woman...

1:21:44 > 1:21:46with high morals...

1:21:47 > 1:21:50..that I held in high esteem,

1:21:50 > 1:21:54as long as it didn't intervene with my interests.

1:21:55 > 1:21:59But it suddenly did... DOG BARKS

1:21:59 > 1:22:03But she got to be one of the Chagall lithographs

1:22:03 > 1:22:05she loved the most,

1:22:05 > 1:22:07but I made a biological still life

1:22:07 > 1:22:11with one of her favourite paintings.

1:22:11 > 1:22:14The Woman And The Roses.

1:22:16 > 1:22:19That's my way of showing her my respect.

1:22:19 > 1:22:20This way, please.

1:22:47 > 1:22:49And what about Sun?

1:22:50 > 1:22:52Oh, Sun.

1:22:52 > 1:22:54He was a loyal friend.

1:22:55 > 1:22:58And a brilliant printer.

1:22:58 > 1:23:03But he wasn't prepared to commit murder to protect our treasure.

1:23:04 > 1:23:08And when he heard what happened to Marie,

1:23:08 > 1:23:13he threatened to crush and smash the stones.

1:23:14 > 1:23:17And you, better than anyone else,

1:23:17 > 1:23:19would know what that meant.

1:23:19 > 1:23:22It's cultural treasure.

1:23:35 > 1:23:40So, I had to take care of Sun, too. DOG BARKS

1:23:40 > 1:23:43And, as a genuine lover

1:23:43 > 1:23:48of all Japanese erotic art,

1:23:48 > 1:23:52he got his biological tribute, together with his two printers.

1:23:53 > 1:23:56Shigemasa's shunga painting.

1:24:12 > 1:24:14What a pity...

1:24:18 > 1:24:20GUNSHOT

1:24:32 > 1:24:36MALE VOICES HUM DANNY BOY

1:25:39 > 1:25:43# Oh Danny boy,

1:25:43 > 1:25:48# The pipes, the pipes are calling

1:25:48 > 1:25:51# From glen to glen

1:25:51 > 1:25:54# And down the mountainside

1:25:56 > 1:25:59# The summer's gone

1:25:59 > 1:26:04# And all the flowers are dying

1:26:04 > 1:26:07# Tis you, tis you

1:26:07 > 1:26:13# Must go and I must bide

1:26:13 > 1:26:16# But come you back

1:26:16 > 1:26:21# When summer's in the meadow... #