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The Matriarch

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Original title

Lieksa!

Year

2007

Running time

90 min.

Country

Finland

Director

Markku Pölönen

Screenwriter

Markku Pölönen

Cast

Music

Vesa Mäkinen

Cinematography

Jan Nyman

Producer

Suomen Filmiteollisuus Oy

Genre

Comedy. Drama

Synopsis

Martta (Sanna-Kaisa Palo) and Otto (Heikki Kinnunen) are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendents of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo (Tuomas Uusitalo), Repe (Tatu Siivonen) and equally silly son-in-law Ventti (Toni Wahlstrom). The family occasionally turns to crime when they can't quite make ends meet, and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business. Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kaspar (Samuli Vauramo), who becomes the family's sidekick in their travels. Despite Kaspar's inability to speak, he attracts Martha's youngest daughter, an attractive young woman named Lara (Jenni Banerjee), but the family is in disarray when a long-lost half-brother, Laszlo (Peter Franzen), suddenly re-emerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother.

Awards: 2008: Jussi Awards (Finland): Nominated Best Costume Design and Set Design

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The Matriarch

2007

Markku Pölönen