Kahdeksas veljes (1971)

Directed by

Spede Pasanen

Genre

comedy film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

S

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A comedy film with a title that humorously references a classic Finnish novel but has no story connection to it. The joke is that an eighth brother was left out because the author was bribed.

whimsicalplayfullight-heartedsillylooseabsurdcomedic

What happens

Kahdeksas veljes (The Eighth Brother) is a 1971 Finnish film directed by Spede Pasanen. It was Pasanen's first completely independent work as a screenwriter and director. The film attracted 176,175 viewers to theaters. Despite the title, the plot bears no connection to Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers, nor is it a sequel to the earlier Spede production, Noin 7 veljestä. The only reference to the title comes in the opening credits, where it is jokingly claimed that there was, in fact, an eighth brother, whom Kivi omitted because he had been bribed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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