Hunters of the Night (1984)

Original title

Yön saalistajat

Directed by

Visa Mäkinen

Genre

thriller film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

K-16

Rating

4.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A police officer goes undercover to infiltrate a criminal organization in the Finnish city of Pori. The film shows violence and nudity more frankly than was common in Finnish entertainment films of the 1980s.

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What happens

Hunters of the Night (Yön saalistajat) is a 1984 Finnish action thriller film produced and directed by Visa Mäkinen. The film is about a police officer who infiltrates a criminal organization operating in Pori. The film shows violence and nudity more frankly than was generally the case in Finnish entertainment films of the 1980s; upon release, the film was rated K-18 by the Finnish Board of Film Classification. Hunters of the Night received mixed reviews from critics. It was seen in theaters by only 1,670 viewers, but in its first television broadcast in 1987 by almost one and a half millions, although MTV3 initially showed the reels in the wrong order and restarted the show so that the total TV broadcast lasted two and a half hours. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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