That Kiljunen Family (1981)

Original title

Kiljusen herrasväki

Directed by

Matti Kuortti

Genre

comedy film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

S

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a Finnish musical comedy from 1981 about the chaotic adventures of the Kiljunen family. It is based on a classic children's book and became a big box office hit.

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What happens

That Kiljunen Family (Finnish: Kiljusen herrasväki) is a 1981 Finnish musical comedy family film directed by Matti Kuortti and starring Jukka Sipilä and Marja-Sisko Aimonen. It is based on the 1914 children's book of the same name by Jalmari Finne. At the beginning of the 1970s, the production company Filminor had already planned a family film based on Finne's children's book, but at that time the project fell through because the topic was reserved for Yleisradio. After Risto Jarva's death in 1977, Filminor gave the directing opportunity to Antti Peippo and Timo Linnasalo, whose films had a rather weak public success, and the subject of Finne was taken up again: Matti Kuortti, a long-time Filminor native since the late 1960s as a sound engineer and editor in the company, directed That Kiljunen Family as his debut film. The film was a commercial hit when it came out in theaters, and it gathered more than 200,000 viewers, which was the second most viewed in 1981 after Uuno Turhapuron aviokriisi. Due to the film's success, it received a sequel, The New Adventures of That Kiljunen Family, in 1990, which was also directed by Matti Kuortti. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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