Fuck Off! – Images from Finland (1971)

Original title

Perkele! Kuvia Suomesta

Directed by

Erkki Seiro, Jaakko Talaskivi, Jörn Donner

Genre

documentary film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary from 1971 where filmmakers traveled around Finland interviewing ordinary people and public figures. The interviewees share opinions on politics, everyday life, and current events.

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What happens

Perkele! Kuvia Suomesta (English: Fuck Off! Images from Finland) is a 1971 Finnish documentary film written and co-directed by Jörn Donner with Jaakko Talaskivi and Erkki Seiro. The filmmakers traveled around Finland in 1970, interviewing random citizens and well-known public figures at time. The interviewees talk and express their opinions on, among other things, politics, contemporary phenomena, and their own everyday lives. The visual narrative is punctuated by socially conscious songs composed by M. A. Numminen and written by Jarkko Laine; the songs were compiled into the soundtrack album Perkele! Lauluja Suomesta. The original version of the film was not approved by the censor board until February 1986. Yle TV1 has previously broadcast a cut version in 1973 and 1996 under the short title Kuvia Suomesta. Swedish television aired an uncut version of the film. In 2017, Donner directed a sequel, Perkele 2, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Finland's independence. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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