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Release Date: 09 Sat, Oct 1948
A story set over one night in a small rural community we watch various relationships and actions among local people; these include birth, death, and conflicts fuelled by alcohol. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside. Lumberjacks, a deer-eyed young man Nokia, a family of poor farmers, a young girl and her lover. New life is born, old life dies, man is slain in his prime, and his widow continues her life.
as Helka
as Nokia
as Hilja Syrjämäki
as Jalmari Syrjämäki
as Arvid
as Teliranta
as Martta Teliranta
as Old lady of Teliranta
as Santra Mettälä
as Jukka Mettälä
as Selma Teliranta
as Matti Puolamäki
as Constable
as Doctor
as base farm host
as "gentlemanly" man in Mettälä
as old granny on the road
as liquor dealer
as the man of the cottage
as Emmi
as Selma's boyfriend
as Iivari Pietilä
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