The Harvest Month

Elokuu

Finland

1956

94 Min

Black and White

Finnish

Currently 4.6/5 Stars.
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SCR Matti Kassila, F.E. Sillanpää

CAST Toivo Mäkelä, Emma Väänänen, Senni Nieminen, Heikki Savolainen, Tauno Kajander, Rauni Luoma, Aino-Maija Tikkanen, Rauni Ikäheimo, Topi Kankainen, Pentti Irjala, Sylvi Salonen, Olavi Ahonen, Väinö Luutonen, Keijo Lindroos, Mauri Jaakkola, Severi Seppänen, Kaija Siikala, Leo Lastumäki, Kari Åkerberg

Viktor Sundvall is a guard of a little channel in the Finnish countryside. He is an unsuccessful playwright who is frustrated with his marriage and his life and therefore he has became an alcoholic. One Saturday-morning in august he is waiting for a visit of an old family-friend Maija Länsilehto with whom he has had a relationship in his youth. But Sundvall does not know that the Saturday will be the last day of his life. —IMDb

Director

Matti Kassila

Matti Kassila (born 12 January 1924 in Keuruu) is a Finnish film director who achieved fame as one of the most prominent Finnish filmmakers in the 1950s and 60s. He is most famous for the series of four Inspector Palmu movies, based on the character created by Mika Waltari. During his long career, he has won seven Jussi awards, including a concrete Jussi for lifetime achievement, and received numerous other commendations. —Wikipedia