'Crazy Finland'
Pähkähullu Suomi (Crazy Finland/ Det helgalna Finland)
La folle Finlande (French title)
Total verrücktes Finnland (German title)

Available on DVD

Finland 1967 B/W 79 min Filmituotanto Spede Pasanen Ky

****

Comedy

cast: Spede Pasanen (Mr. William Njurmi), Simo Salminen (Simo), Toivo Mäkelä (prime minister), Leo Jokela (typical Finnish citizen), Jukka Virtanen (director Jukka Lahtinen), Esko Salminen (Luigi Cravatto), Pirjo Pasanen (Kielo Joki), Ere Kokkonen (producer Erkki Sormio), Anssi Kukkonen, Heikki Kahila, Harry Harkimo, Niilo Tarvajärvi (as himself), Pertti Melasniemi, Armi Kuusela (as herself), Gil Hilario (as himself), Aku Korhonen, Tauno Palo (the vagabond), Veikko Sinisalo (the man in the swamp), Siiri Angerkoski, Urho Kekkonen (as himself), Gregory Peck (as himself), Ester Toivonen (as herself)
credits: dir. Jukka Virtanen (also script with Spede Pasanen and Ere Kokkonen), prod. Pertti Spede Pasanen

Crazy film which briefly tells everything about Finns and Finland. How to hunt a moose and how we always want to take every traveller into our saunas... And even the then president of Finland, Urho Kekkonen, glimpses in one scene. A fast, surprisingly enjoyable comedy.

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