Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law (1978)

Original title

Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy

Directed by

Ere Kokkonen

Genre

comedy film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

S

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Uuno Turhapuro, a bumbling hardware dealer and the president's son-in-law, gets into absurd situations. The film is built from recycled comedy sketches.

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What happens

Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro - presidentin vävy (Hardware Dealer Uuno Turhapuro, the President's Son-in-Law, also Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law) is a Finnish 1978 comedy film written by Spede Pasanen and directed by Ere Kokkonen. It is the fifth film in the Uuno Turhapuro series, and it is the last Uuno Turhapuro film in black and white. The film's script is built on the basis of reheated sketches from the Spede Show, the most notable of which is the 13-minute "hardware store" sketch. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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