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Crazy Finland is a film of genre Comedy with Spede Pasanen
Crazy Finland (1967)
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Rating61%
Pähkähullu Suomi (Insane Finland) is a 1967 comedy by Spede Pasanen. It is occasionally cited as one of the best sources for his abstract sense of humour since the film has very little in the sense of plot and is more of a montage of various events. Some critics tend to call the film a "feature-length travel advertisement of Finland" rather than a movie because the main-characters manage to effectively cover every Finnish tourist-trap in the duration of the film. Coincidentally the film was released on the year of the 50th anniversary of the Finnish declaration of independence.
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The film is set to a frame-narrative about a film director and producer making a marketing film about Finland, using the visit of the son of a wealthy hair-creme tycoon, William Njurmi (Pasanen), as the premise. For the first two thirds, the film's events take place according to a conversation between the producer, director and a random Finnish tax-payer frozen by the narrator at the beginning of the film.Actors
Spede Pasanen
(William Njurmi)
Simo Salminen
Esko Salminen
(Luigi Cravatto)
Leo Jokela
(Herra keskivertosuomalainen)
Toivo Mäkelä
(Pääministeri)
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