LAPLAND ODYSSEY
Directed by: Dome Karukoski
Original Title: Napapiirin sankarit
Genres: Comedy
Cast: Jussi Vatanen, Jasper Pääkkönen, Timo Lavikainen, Pamela Tola, Kari Ketonen, Miia Nuutila
Written by: Pekko Pesonen
Produced by: Aleksi Bardy
Production Company: Helsinki Filmi, Ripple World Pictures, Anagram Produktion
Production year: 2010
Release year: 2010
Country: Finland, Ireland, Sweden
Language: Finnish, English, Swedish, Russian
Duration: 95 min
Subtitled Versions: English, Swedish
Formats: RED One, 35mm
Synopsis:
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.
