Zombie and the Ghost Train
(1991)
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Zombie and the Ghost Train
(1991)
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Silu Seppälä | ... |
Zombie
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Marjo Leinonen | ... |
Marjo
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Matti Pellonpää | ... |
Harri
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Vieno Saaristo | ... |
Äiti
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Juhani Niemelä | ... |
Isä
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Sakke Järvenpää | ... |
Mulefukker
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Mato Valtonen | ... |
Mulefukker
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Mauri Sumén | ... |
Mulefukker
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Jyri Närvänen | ... |
Mulefukker
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Jarmo Haapanen | ... |
Mulefukker
(as Jami Haapanen)
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Jussi Rinne | ... |
Kummitusjuna
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Matti Viholainen | ... |
Kummitusjuna
(as Vinski Viholainen)
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Roger Nieminen | ... |
Kummitusjuna
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Marko Äijö | ... |
Parturi
(as Marko Rauhala)
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Kauko Laurikainen | ... |
Lääkäri
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Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
"Zombie and the Ghost train" starts off as a comedy, but as usual for the older Kaursmaki's sensibilities, it takes on a darker aspect pretty quickly. Annti purposefully gets himself thrown out of the army, then starts wandering around aimlessly, searching for something. Wonderful stuff, though there's not too much happening; there's the inevitable terseness of conversation and heavy drinking. Funny and sad in equal measures, it's a study in fatalistic decline and powerlessness and the ending is rather heartbreaking.