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Frozen Land (2005)

Frozen Land poster
Original title
Paha maa
Directed by
Aku Louhimies
Genre
drama film
Country
Finland
Runtime
2h 10m
Rated
16
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 67 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A stolen banknote sets off a chain of violent events that connects a group of people in Helsinki. The film follows the consequences of the crime as it moves from person to person.

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What happens

Frozen Land (Finnish: Paha maa) is a 2005 Finnish drama film directed and written by Aku Louhimies starring Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko Leppilampi and Pamela Tola. The film's plot is based on Leo Tolstoy's 1911 posthumously published story "The Forged Coupon", part one, which was also the basis for Robert Bresson's 1983 film L'Argent. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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