Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin (1931)

Directed by

Jaakko Korhonen

Genre

comedy film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

K-16

Rating

4.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is forced to disguise himself as a woman for comedic reasons. The film is an early Finnish talkie with limited sound, relying on intertitles for dialogue.

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What happens

In Adam's Dress and a Bit in Eve's Too (Finnish: Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin, Swedish: I Adams kläder och litet i Evas) is a 1931 Finnish comedy film directed and written by Jaakko Korhonen based on the novel Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin by Yrjö Soini. The film's runtime is 104 minutes. It is the first Finnish film to have sound, although sound is limited to sound effects and some singing. The dialogue is still only displayed in bilingual intertitles. In 1959 the film was remade in West Germany as Two Times Adam, One Time Eve. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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