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Voi meitä! Anoppi tulee (1933)

Voi meitä! Anoppi tulee poster
Directed by
Karl Fager, Erkki Karu
Genre
comedy film
Country
Finland
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
S
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mother-in-law arrives to visit, causing chaos and comic misunderstandings in a family. The film is based on a stage farce about the complications of in-law relationships.

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What happens

Voi meitä! Anoppi tulee (AKAThe Mother-in-Law Cometh) is a 1933 Finnish comedy film directed by Erkki Karu and starring Mia Backman, Uuno Laakso and Georg Malmstén. It was based on a popular stage farce My Wife's Family by Fred Duprez. There were three British film versions of the play, in 1931, 1941, and 1956. It had also been filmed previously in Sweden in 1932, and it was the popularity of this which led to the Finnish version being made. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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