Movie: The Year of the Hare

Top 10 Billed Cast

Antti Litja
Antti Litja

Kaarlo Vatanen

Kauko Helovirta
Kauko Helovirta

Desk Sergeant

Markku Huhtamo
Markku Huhtamo

Taxi Driver

Paavo Hukkinen
Paavo Hukkinen

Taxi Driver

Juha Kandolin
Juha Kandolin

Miettinen

Kosti Klemelä
Kosti Klemelä

U. Kärkkäinen

Anna-Maija Kokkinen
Anna-Maija Kokkinen

Leila Heikkinen

Martti Kuningas
Martti Kuningas

Hannikainen

Ahti Kuoppala
Ahti Kuoppala

Kaartinen

Hannele Lanu
Hannele Lanu

Kiosk Vendor

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    Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life

  • Release Date

    1977-12-23

  • Average

    7.26

  • Rating:

    3.6 starts
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  • Languages:

    suomi
  • Keywords

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