The Year of the Wolf

Feb 2, 2007

1h 42m

★ 6.1

Overview

Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works."

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

MRP Matila Röhr Productions

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Cast

Sari Karaslahti

Krista Kosonen

Mikko Groman

Kari Heiskanen

Mikaela

Johanna af Schultén

Ilari

Kai Vaine

Leif

Ville Virtanen

Marjatta Jokela

Katariina Kaitue

Sari's Mother

Kristiina Halttu

Sari's Father

Jukka Puotila

Riikka

Anne-Mari Alaspää

Lotta

Aksa Korttila

Matias

Olli Rahkonen

Heidi

Manna Jäntti

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