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6.5

Lapland Odyssey

NR·2010·95m

Comedy

Summary

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.

Cast

Jussi Vatanen

Janne

Jasper Pääkkönen

Kapu

Timo Lavikainen

Räihänen

Pamela Tola

Inari

Kari Ketonen

Pikku-Mikko

Miia Nuutila

Marjukka

Konsta Mäkelä

Hatunen

Sinikka Mokkila

Jannen äiti

Erkki Hetta

Jannen isä

Asko Sahlman

Martti Juntura

Rinna Paatso

Marjukan kaveri

Moa Gammel

Anna

Anna-Leena Härkönen

Reseptionisti

Camilla Jacobsen

Seireeni 1

Jane Timglas

Seireeni 2

Melissa Heininen

Kapua iskevä tyttö

Ulla Tapaninen

Räihäsen äiti

Markku Köngäs

Poliisi 1

Teuvo Alakunnas

Poliisi 2

Janne Reinikainen

Kittilän runkkari 1

Kari Hietalahti

Kittilän runkkari 2

Tommi Liski

Kittilän runkkari 3

Andrei Tsumak

Sergei

Ruslan Susi

Pjotr

Elvira Tensina

Vera

Julia Lyubchenko

Jelena

Kari Koivukangas

Taksikuski Rovaniemellä

Minttu Leppänen

Oksentava tyttö

Pekka Hietaniemi

Ilmari Tuomi

Esa Harju

Toivo

Sakke Lipponen

Jaakko Kivi

Mikko Kunnari

Naiseton hippi

Keijo Haapalainen

Kalle Laamanen

Riitta Nilimaa

Nuuskakairan-baarin myyjätär

Jannika Öberg

Karaoke-emäntä

Kari Känsäkoski

Taksikuski Ylläksellä 1

Jarkko Ylläsjärvi

Taksikuski Ylläksellä 1

Maria Lahtinen

Huoltoaseman myyjätär

Matti Törhönen

Radion uutistenlukija (voice)

Jussi Eskola

Hiihtoselostaja (voice)

Joonas Makkonen

Mies baarissa (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Dome Karukoski

Writer

Pekko Pesonen

Reviews

brekkil

December 26, 2014

A young man wakes up. His girlfriend is kinda tired of his lazy way of living, it is time for a change. The change comes in the form of a digibox. His girlfriend wants to watch Titanic that very evening. She is not unreasonably, mind you, she does give him the money for the digibox, unfortunately, things are not that simple. Well, I say unfortunately, but the Odyssey that lies ahead of young Janne is a great one.

This is no mindblowing movie that will give you some higher insight into life, or even show you a new way of making movies. It is a very traditional movie; man must go on adventure in order to win the woman. I won't spoil the ending too much, but I think you have an idea of where this is going.

_Last words... this movie is done well, but nothing more than a light comedy. If I could only pick a handful of comedies to bring with me to the Otherworld, this would not be one of them, but it did entertain me._