Routasydän

1993
1h 23m

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Katja Kiuru, Mats Långbacka, and Jarmo Mäkinen in Routasydän (1993)

In this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the city... Read allIn this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the city to his summer cottage with his children and a lady next door, a divorced university teach... Read allIn this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the city to his summer cottage with his children and a lady next door, a divorced university teacher is forced to pick up a young delirious woman from the roadside. He soon falls in love w... Read all

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4thule-d

After joining to European Union some finns started to rebel.

After joining to European Union some finns started to rebel. The referendum of joining to the Union was on the year 1994 October and this were based on that scenario that there would be enough finns to start successful rebellion against traitor government. Good idea but very sad implementation. Just a story without any specific start or end. Quite a mishmash too.

8alumiinipanda

Suprisingly good for finnish "scifi".

Finnish movies have traditionally shied away from anything that could be considered scifi or fantasy and finding a movie that could be classified to such a rare genre is a small event for me. Especially this movie, since unlike most attempts, this managed to be rather good. It has many flaws, but also many things to like. The near-future is potrayed well enough in a low-key style fitting to the budget, the movie tries to explore some ideas and has a nice melancholic mood. Then again, at times it's boring, the anti-EU propaganda is a bit thick and some rather unexpected bousts of dubious gore effect seem a bit distracting.

Anyway, this just might be the best finnish movie that could by any stretch of imagination be considered scifi, beating such movies as On the Last Border, Booke of Fate and Lipton Cockton.