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The Manila Rope

09/28/1976

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1hr 15min

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War

,Drama

STORY

Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Erkki Pajala
  • Vesa Mäkelä
  • Martti Kuningas
  • Esko Hukkanen
  • Hannu Kahakorpi

    Director

  • Veli-Matti Saikkonen

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • YLE

    Production Countries

  • Finland

LANGUAGES

  • Finnish

Cast

Erkki Pajala

Joose Keppilä

Vesa Mäkelä

Fiksu

Martti Kuningas

Iso

Esko Hukkanen

Vääpeli

Iris-Lilja Lassila

Sylvia

Yrjö Parjanne

Eversti

Harri Tirkkonen

Lääkäri

Leila Itkonen

Elviira

Heikki Nousiainen

Korpraali

Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

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