Jäniksen vuosi
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The Year of the Hare is a 1977 Finnish drama film directed by Risto Jarva
, starring Antti Litja
as a man who leaves his office job in Helsinki to live in the wilderness with a hare. The film is based on the 1975 book The Year of the Hare
by Arto Paasilinna
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, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness where he becomes acquainted with nature.
Risto Jarva
Risto Antero Jarva was a Finnish filmmaker. His last film was Jäniksen vuosi . He died in a car accident on his way back from a private showing of the film, and the subsequent party....
, starring Antti Litja
Antti Litja
Antti Litja is a Finnish actor.Litja entered film in 1960 and has made over 60 Finnish film and TV appearances to date...
as a man who leaves his office job in Helsinki to live in the wilderness with a hare. The film is based on the 1975 book The Year of the Hare
The Year of the Hare
The Year of the Hare is a 1975 novel by Finnish author Arto Paasilinna. It tells the story of Kaarlo Vatanen, a frustrated journalist, who, after nearly killing a hare with his car, decides to live with the hare in the wilderness....
by Arto Paasilinna
Arto Paasilinna
Arto Tapio Paasilinna is a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of the most successful novelists of Finland, he has won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before...
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Plot
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and city life in HelsinkiHelsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness where he becomes acquainted with nature.
Cast
- Antti LitjaAntti LitjaAntti Litja is a Finnish actor.Litja entered film in 1960 and has made over 60 Finnish film and TV appearances to date...
as Kaarlo Vatanen - Kauko HelovirtaKauko HelovirtaKauko Kustaa Helovirta was a Finnish film actor.Helovirta entered film in 1950 and made about 40 Finnish films between then and 1995....
as Poliisipäivystäjä - Markku HuhtamoMarkku HuhtamoMarkku Huhtamo is a Finnish actor.Huhtamo entered film in 1977 and has appeared in over 30 Finnish films and TV series between then and the present although mostly in film....
as Taksikuski Mikkelissä - Paavo HukkinenPaavo HukkinenPaavo Hukkinen was a German-Finnish actor.Hukkinen entered film in 1937 starring in the film Tukkijoella and appeared in some 70 Finnish films and TV series between then and his retirement from acting in 1986.Huhtamo starred in the 1977 film alongside actors Antti Litja, Kauko Helovirta and Markku...
as Taksikuski Heinolassa - Juha Kandolin as Valokuvaaja Miettinen
- Kosti Klemelä as U. Kärkkäinen
- Anna-Maija Kokkinen as Varatuomari Leila Heikkinen
- Martti Kuningas as Hannikainen, former rural police chief
- Ahti Kuoppala as Kaartinen
- Hannele Lanu as Kioskinpitäjä
- Hannu Lauri as Mainospäällikkö Huhtinen
- Heikki NousiainenHeikki NousiainenHeikki Nousiainen is a Finnish film actor.Nousiainen entered film in 1971 as both a director and actor in Saatanan radikaalit and has made over 40 Finnish film and TV appearances to date...
as Tourist guide Toropainen, "Mr. Toro" - Esa Pakarinen as Poliisi #2 (as Esa Pakarinen Jr.)
- Martti Pennanen as Metsästäjä #1
- Tuija Piepponen as Irja (scenes deleted)