Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
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Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla (Swedish: Träskalle och Stumpen i Suez , English: Pekka and Pätkä on Suez) is a 1958 Finnish
comedy
directed by Armand Lohikoski
and starring Esa Pakarinen and Masa Niemi
. It is the tenth movie in the Pekka ja Pätkä
-series of musical buddy comedies based on the Finnish comic book.
where a Finnish platoon is being sent on a peace keeping mission.
Pekka and Pätkä are unwittingly captured by bandits, rescue Caliphe Abu Kapi's daughter Sulema and uncover a plot for a revolution being planned by sheik Ali Ben Ali.
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
directed by Armand Lohikoski
Armand Lohikoski
Armand Lohikoski was a Finnish movie director and writer. He is best known as a director of a number of Pekka ja Pätkä movies.-Career:...
and starring Esa Pakarinen and Masa Niemi
Masa Niemi
Martti "Masa" Elis Niemi was a Finnish actor. Niemi started his career as a drummer, but became popular as a comedian. He is most famous for his role as "Pätkä" in all thirteen original Pekka ja Pätkä movies.- Life :Niemi was born in Viipuri. His films include Majuri maantieltä...
. It is the tenth movie in the Pekka ja Pätkä
Pekka ja Pätkä
Pekka and Pätkä is the name of several comedy films produced by Suomen Filmiteollisuus in the 1950s in Finland, based on the popular Finnish comic characters Pekka Puupää and Pätkä , who can be said to be the Finnish version of Stan and Ollie...
-series of musical buddy comedies based on the Finnish comic book.
Summary
The movie begins with the final scene of the previous film Pekka ja Pätkä Sammakkomiehinä where the main characters are knocked out by a pair of Finnish soldiers. The soldiers take Pekka and Pätkä's clothes, put them in uniform and drag the to the plane for SuezSuez
Suez is a seaport city in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez , near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boundaries as Suez governorate. It has three harbors, Adabya, Ain Sokhna and Port Tawfiq, and extensive port facilities...
where a Finnish platoon is being sent on a peace keeping mission.
Pekka and Pätkä are unwittingly captured by bandits, rescue Caliphe Abu Kapi's daughter Sulema and uncover a plot for a revolution being planned by sheik Ali Ben Ali.