Kohtalon kirja (2003)

Directed by

Tero Molin, Tommi Lepola

Genre

science fiction film, vampire film, horror film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

K-15

Rating

3.9 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Finnish film is a collection of episodes that mix horror, Western, war, action, and sci-fi. It follows different characters in each segment, with a supernatural book tying the stories together.

episodicatmosphericexperimentalmoodydarkunevenambitiousoffbeat

What happens

Kohtalon kirja (The Book of Fate, though the website also uses The Booke of Fate) is a Finnish film released in 2003. The movie was a DVD release, though it premiered in a theater. The film is a multi-genre episode movie. It's frequently described as a "Horror/Western/War/Action/Sci-fi" movie, as it covers all of those genres in different episodes. The frequent themes are horror and fantasy, too. The movie was conceived and directed by Tommi Lepola and Tero Molin. Many of the makers, including Lepola and the producer Ilkka Niemi, jointly made the movie as their graduation work from Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu. The lead roles were given to freshly graduated acting students. As a graduation work, it is vastly larger than most such projects. In addition to these, many well-known Finnish actors, such as Vesa Vierikko, Santeri Kinnunen and Åke Lindman came to make an appearance in the movie. Many of them found it interesting to work on a movie like this, because such movies are not typically made in Finland. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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