People in the Summer Night ( Ihmiset suviyössä )

People in the Summer Night (DVD) (*)

$21.99

Original Title: Ihmiset suviyössä
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Finland ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
63 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1948 and produced in:
Finland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Valentin Vaala

Written By:
F.E. Sillanpää

Actors:
Eila Pehkonen ..... Helka
Martti Katajisto ..... Nokia
Emma Väänänen ..... Hilja Syrjämäki
Eero Roine ..... Jalmari Syrjämäki
Matti Oravisto ..... Arvid
Toivo Hämeranta ..... Teliranta
Tyyne Haarla ..... Martta Teliranta
Maija Nuutinen ..... Old lady of Teliranta
Kaisu Leppänen ..... Santra Mettälä
Matti Lehtelä ..... Jukka Mettälä
Tellervo Nokelainen ..... Selma Teliranta
Erkki Kalakari ..... Matti Puolamäki
Eero Leväluoma ..... Constable
Kaarlo Halttunen ..... Doctor
Toivo Lahti

Synopsis:

A visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside. Lumberjacks, a deer-eyed young man Nokia, a family of poor farmers, a young girl and her lover... New life is born, old life dies, man is slain in his prime, and his widow continues her life.

Finland's Nobel laureate, was an imagist who relied more on descriptive word painting than on narrative to shape his pantheistic vision of man. The peasants of his melancholy meditation on Finnish summers are carried along by the cycle of the seasons, from birth to death, from love to loss. By celebrating the Nordic rituals of the summer solstice they offset winter's descent into darkness and remain in harmony with nature. Valentin Vaala's languorously paced images are among the most sensuous in Finnish cinema, and capture Sillanpä;ä;'s atmosphere of resistance and resignation, the douceur de la vie of old age. As the sun lingers well into the night, farmers till the soil, lovers meet in the fields, a baby is born, a man dies mysteriously, and we are left to speculate about their destinies.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 29 April, 2014.

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