Casts & Crew
Mervi Takatalo
Mikko Kouki
Mazdak Nassir
Mats Långbacka
Helmi-Leena Nummela
Thomas Hanzon
Peter Kanerva
Vida Koivumäki
Cecilia Paul
Akseli Kouki
Laura Malmivaara
Aaro Wichmann
Tapio Liinoja
Jaana Saarinen
Elliot Waselius
Emilia Reponen
Nuray Basboga
Yasser Al-Mousawi
Nestori Aaltonen
Dylan Westerén
Aaro Antonen
Tuuli Mattila
Peppi Hannula
Mauri Riuttu
Mohamed El-Bouari
Jan Korander
Jarmo Mäkinen
Eero Milonoff
Jukka Kärkkäinen
Riitta Salminen
Mika Kujala
Lauri Nurkse
Also Directed by Lauri Nurkse
In this gripping thriller based on the novels by Finnish author Matti Rönkä, Viktor Kärppä is a former KGB agent who settles in Finland, the country of his ancestors. He tries to make a living as a private investigator and business facilitator for Russian migrants, but finds himself entangled with organized crime. He may look like a killer, but he isn't one.
The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.
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Viktor Kärppä was forced involuntarily in the middle of Russia's internal power struggle. Soon bunch of assassins as well as Security Police are trying to catch Kärppä. Kärppä's family is also in great danger. In order to save themselves and their families they need to resort to Kärppäs friend, the police Korhonen , as well as his brother Aleksei.
In the middle of the summer holidays, the body of a drowned man with ligature marks on his wrists is recovered from Tammerkoski river. The investigation by Koskinen's team is further strained by the hit-and-run case of a dubious music manager and the mysterious Carl Friedrich. When a new body is found in Lake Näsijärvi, the connection between the victims is made clear.
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