Saatanan radikaalit (1971)

Directed by

Paavo Piironen

Genre

comedy film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

S

Rating

3.4 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four young Finnish men make their film debut as both directors and actors in a comedy produced by a famous filmmaker. The movie follows their antics as they try to establish themselves in the industry.

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What happens

Saatanan Radikaalit ('Damned Radicals') is a 1971 Finnish comedy film starring and directed by Paavo Piironen, Heikki Nousiainen, Heikki Huopainen and Timo Nissi. It was financed and produced by Finnish film-maker Spede Pasanen, but unlike the comedy films he had produced previously he did not feature him on-screen. The movie was released in 1971, the same year as Spede's Hirttämättömät and Kahdeksas Veljes. The film was intended to give its four stars a start in the Finnish film industry as both directors and leading actors. Although now widely available in DVD distribution in various Spede collections, the film's only other showing outside its theatrical run was a single TV rerun on MTV3 in 2008. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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