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RIKOS JA RANGAISTUS (BROTT OCH STRAFF / CRIME AND PUNISHMENT) - 1983
Inspired by Dostoyevsky's famous novel, this engrossing Finnish version of "Crime and Punishment" revolves around an ex-law student in Helsinki (Markku Toikka) who now works in a slaughterhouse. One day the worker searches out the drunk driver that had killed his fiancee and coldly shoots him to death. The worker does not get away without being seen by a woman named Eeva (Aino Seppo), and in spite of the fact that the woman knows everything, including his name (Rahikainen), she says nothing to the police about it. Instead, she and Rahikainen, the murderer, become involved in an affair that cannot possibly have a future.
DVD FEATURESFull Frame VersionFinnish AudioOptional English, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian subtitles
CALAMARI UNION - 1985
Avant-garde, experimental and misogynist in the bargain, this oddball film is about 17 men named Frank who make their way through Helsinki in a commandeered subway car. Their goal is to reach the symbolically peaceful, perfect coastal town of Eira. Along the way they perform some pop music, one of them is shot, they split up, and finally two manage to reach the sea. Once there, they discover that the water is filled with dead fish, and a decrepit rowboat somehow becomes an object of contention.
DVD FEATURESAnamorphic (16:9) Widescreen VersionFinnish AudioOptional English, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian subtitles
PIDA HUIVISTA KIINNI, TATJANA (TAKE CARE OF YOUR SCARF, TATIANA) - 1994
In this Finnish-German comedy two misfit men discover that they need more than body language to express their interest in two travelling women. Cigar smoking, coffee slurping Valto works at home for his mother. The day she runs out of coffee is the day he locks her in a cupboard and takes-off after first swiping the cash from her purse. Before hitting the road, he picks up Reino, his oily-haired buddy with rock-n-roll affectations.
Together they cruise the back roads of Finland. Reino guzzles vodka and Valto his coffee. Two comely hitchhikers appear. They are the thin Tatiana from Estonia, and the chunky Klaudia from Russia. Tatiana only knows enough Finnish to ask for a lift. Both women seem interested in the two men who are both too intimidated to speak…
DVD FEATURESAnamorphic (16:9) Widescreen VersionFinnish/Russian AudioOptional English, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian subtitles |
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