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Eila (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Moscow International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Finland ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
Finland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Jarmo Lampela

Written By:
Tove Idström

Actors:
Sari Mällinen ..... Eila Salonen
Ilkka Koivula ..... Timo
Hannes Suominen ..... Mika
Kristiina Halkola ..... Pirkko Karvinen
Johanna Kerttula ..... Mari Lainio
Kari Hietalahti ..... Kai Pylkkänen
Aino Lehtimäki ..... Laina
Irja Matikainen ..... Laskupää
Juha Muje ..... Sauli Korpivuori
Elina Hietala ..... Jonna
Hannu-Pekka Björkman ..... Eero
Antti Virta ..... Molo
Jukka Pääkkönen ..... Heikki
Mika Purola ..... Heikkien roudari
Veli-Pekka Hänninen ..... Liikemies (as VP Hänninen)

Synopsis:

Forty-something, divorced Eila works as a cleaner for the Finnish government. When the cleaning business is privatized, her colleagues go on strike against impending redundancies but end up settling their dispute on questionable terms. Eila is despised as scab until a lawyer helps her - and hundreds of her colleagues around the country - file a winning lawsuit against the Finnish State. Subplots include a gentle but clueless musician boyfriend and Eila's son, a juvenile delinquent just released from prison and trying to cope with his own problems. Based on true events in the 1990s when cleaning women of the former National Building Board sued the Finnish government for illegal discharges.

Eila tells the story of a woman who ventures to take a risk, as an employee, as a loving woman and as a mother, and about her personal journey from timid and bullied to courageous. Eila and her colleagues bring action against the State for illegal discharges. The men in Eila's life, her son, her boyfriend and her ex-husband, all think that the plan is insane, you can't win up against the State. The film is based on events that took place a few years ago.

A cleaning woman decides to sue the state for illegal discharge.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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