'The Log Drifters'
Tukkijoella (Stockflötarna)
Le flottage (French title)
Holzflösserei (German title)

Available at YLE

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Finland 1937 B/W 109min Jäger-Filmi Oy

Drama, musical

cast: Kyösti Erämaa (Aaprahammi Turkka), Kirsti Hurme (Katri), Liisa Fredman (Anni), Eero Roine Kalle Viherpuu, Urho Valkama
credits: dir. Kalle Kaarna

People thought that this film had disappeared but it was found after many years from USA. The story about good Finnish timber-floaters, love, two guys (the bad and the good one) with same name and evil suitor who tries to steal everybody’s money and other property... It has been told many times before and after this movie.

The cast plays like they would be in a theatre, not in a movie set. Guys have more make-up than girls (who are still prettier than them) and jokes are long and almost impossible to bring into today. Quite boring... This “piece of art” is nothing else but silly memory from the past.

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