Kesäkapina

Overview

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.

Directed by Jaakko Pakkasvirta

Top cast

Titta Karakorpi

Susanna, photo model

H

Hannu Oravisto

Veli, Susannas brother

V

Veikko Honkanen

marketing chief Jarmo Nieminen

P

Petra Frey

insurance clerk Katri Pellinen

Eero Melasniemi

Eki, Katris boyfriend

Ritva Arvelo

Mrs. Heinä

T

Topi Reinikka

Mr. Heinä, advertiser

I

Iris-Lilja Lassila

Lady of the House

L

Lauri-Juhani Ruuskanen

vicar of Hirvensalmi

M

Matti Ruohola

Pekka, manager

Jaakko Talaskivi

interviewer

Matti Oravisto

kertoja

E

Eija Pokkinen

valokuvamalli Eija Pokkinen

J

Jorma Pulkkinen

Susannan partneri

E

Erik Uddström

aviomies pölyimurimainoksessa / paitansa studiossa riisuva mies

M

Martti Koski

mies ravintolan terassilla

J

Jaakko Pakkasvirta

mies irtokynsimainoksessa

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