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Release year: 1987

Storyline

Asko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland, so he thinks that the best way to change them is to shoot the Finnish president.

Top credits

Directors

Matti Kassila

Writers

Cast

Hannu Lauri — Asko Mertanen
Laila Räikkä — Eeva-Maria Kilpinen
Antti Litja — Hanhivaara
Esa Saario — Komisario Kairamo

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Did you know

• Although the plot of the film mainly takes place in Tampere, most of the film was shot in Helsinki and in it's neighboring areas. The film group spent only five days in Tampere.

• Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden was assassinated only a few months before the filming was about to begin. Director Matti Kassila thought that after such a tragic event it would be politically impossible to make a fiction film about a madman, whose about to assassinate the President of Finland. But the Finnish Police Administration thought that it would be the right time to make such a film.

• The president's name in the film is never mentioned, but the actor Tarmo Manni who plays him is made up to look exactly like the former Finnish president Urho Kekkonen.