The swans seen at the last shot wasn't planned to include. It was a pure luck to got the swans in the shot.
The Forester (played by Jari Manninen ) is seen in a skirt-looking costume. This was the film's costume designer's (Esteri Orjasniemi ) idea. The skirt is a reference to a famous controversial "village idiot" called "Kalkkimaan pappi" (The Priest of Limeland), who lived in a Western Lapland of Finland at 19th century. This person got usually on a long skirt, even though he was a male. He got his nickname after his exceptional skill to remember a long sermons from word to word. Kalkkimaa (Limeland) is the village he was from.