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Rovaniemen markkinoilla (1951)
Greatest movie ever !
The story is about three fellas going to Lapland after gold. Characters are not exactly the same as in Sergio Leone's Good, bad and ugly, which is not as bad as it might seem in a first look. Esa Pakarinen does a great acting as a stupid but enthusiastic Severi Suhonen, Jorma Ikävalko is fine in the role of Julle, a man with bad luck when it comes to women and Reino Helismaa fits more than well to the role of Roope Kormu, a poor geologist who has, on the contrary to his buddies, brains in a good shape.
After this trio reaches Rovaniemi the local "mafia" tries to clean them out of money. At first a robber named Vuotuan Ville tries to sell an empty mine to the trio. When trio hesitates, Ville speeds their decision by "salting" the mine while the trio is eating. The deal is closed soon and the non-smart proportion of people have lost their money once again or have they ?
Things change dramatically after the trio actually finds gold in the mine. Ville is unhappy with the situation and quickly buys the mine back, finding nothing but sand however. Now the local Sopranos have a new task; how to get both money and gold out from the idiot lads ? That's the red cord of this story, see it yourself to find out more, it is a great comedy !!!
Tuntematon sotilas (1985)
Mollberg succeeds making a realistic war movie.
This film is based on Väinö Linna's novel "Unknown soldier", but the style of the movie differs dramatically from the style of the book. Linna tells his story with bitter black humour and he has war heroes, Koskela & Rokka for example. Mollberg's version has neither heroes nor humour. Instead his movie is starred by blood and terror. Linna awakens, Mollberg silences.
In the genre of war movies Mollberg's work is right on top, it has both artistic and realistic merits, for instance The bridge over the River Kwai lacks the latter. The way Mollberg shows his characters is, however, little too straightforward; Everyone is described thru one mental quality, Lehto is always cynical etc. The mythic silence that surrounds Koskela grows to the astronomical. On the other hand Mollberg succeeds in filming the fear and anger.
The greatest finnish film ever made.