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Title: Lapland Odyssey

Release Date: 15 Oct 2010

Runtime: 1h 35m

Genre: Comedy

Director: Anagram Film, Helsinki-filmi, Ripple World Pictures, Film i Väst, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Production Companies: Anagram Film, Helsinki-filmi, Ripple World Pictures, Film i Väst, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Overview: Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.5 (87 votes)

Cast

  • Janne: Jussi Vatanen
  • Kapu: Jasper Pääkkönen
  • Räihänen: Timo Lavikainen
  • Inari: Pamela Tola
  • Pikku-Mikko: Kari Ketonen
  • Marjukka: Miia Nuutila
  • Hatunen: Konsta Mäkelä
  • Jannen äiti: Sinikka Mokkila
  • Jannen isä: Erkki Hetta
  • Martti Juntura: Asko Sahlman
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