Archive: Year 2013

Focus Nordic

Finnish Blood Swedish Heart

Laulu koti-ikävästä

Director

Mika Ronkainen

Producers

Klaffi Tuotanno

Ulla Simonen

Cinematographer

Vesa Taipaleenmäki

Editor

Åsa Mossberg

Sound

Esa Nissi

Website

Contact

The Finnish Film Foundation
Marja Pallassalo
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
+358 9 6220 3021
[email protected]

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2012

Finland, Sweden

90 min

Color

Kai and his father Tauno drive from Oulu in northern Finland down to Gothenburg where they lived during the ‘70s. The drive becomes a musical journey through emotional memories and the history of Finnish emigration to Sweden; a history too of shame, guilt, crime, alcoholism and family secrets.

Director

Mika Ronkainen (born 1970 in Kuusamo, Finland) is a Finnish film director from Oulu, Northern Finland. His best-known films are documentaries Screaming Men (2003) and Freetime Machos (2009), the former being a portrayal of a Finnish screaming male choir Mieskuoro Huutajat, and latter being a portrayal of a rugby team which is allegedly the most northern and the third lousiest in the world.

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