Lapland Odyssey

Oct 15, 2010

1h 35m

★ 6.4

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Overview

Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Anagram Film

Helsinki-filmi

Ripple World Pictures

Film i Väst

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Lapland Odyssey Trailers

Cast

Janne

Jussi Vatanen

Kapu

Jasper Pääkkönen

Räihänen

Timo Lavikainen

Inari

Pamela Tola

Pikku-Mikko

Kari Ketonen

Marjukka

Miia Nuutila

Hatunen

Konsta Mäkelä

Jannen äiti

Sinikka Mokkila

Jannen isä

Erkki Hetta

Martti Juntura

Asko Sahlman

Marjukan kaveri

Rinna Paatso

Anna

Moa Gammel

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