The Year of the Hare

12/23/1977

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2hrs 9min

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Comedy

,Drama

STORY

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Antti Litja
  • Kauko Helovirta
  • Markku Huhtamo
  • Paavo Hukkinen
  • Juha Kandolin

    Directors

  • Risto Jarva
  • Pirjo Hokkanen

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Filminor

    Production Countries

  • Finland

LANGUAGES

  • Finnish