Kesäkapina (1970)
Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
- Released
- 1970-01-23
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Jaakko Pakkasvirta
- TMDB rating
- 5.1/10 from 7 votes
Cast
- Titta Karakorpi as Susanna, photo model
- Hannu Oravisto as Veli, Susannas brother
- Veikko Honkanen as marketing chief Jarmo Nieminen
- Petra Frey as insurance clerk Katri Pellinen
- Eero Melasniemi as Eki, Katris boyfriend
- Ritva Arvelo as Mrs. Heinä
- Topi Reinikka as Mr. Heinä, advertiser
- Iris-Lilja Lassila as Lady of the House
- Lauri-Juhani Ruuskanen as vicar of Hirvensalmi
- Matti Ruohola as Pekka, manager
- Jaakko Talaskivi as interviewer
- Matti Oravisto as kertoja