Tulipunainen kyyhkynen

1961
K-16
1h 26m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

252

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Drama Mystery Thriller

Doctor Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa fallows his wife ... Read allDoctor Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa fallows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa... Read allDoctor Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa fallows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect.

Director
- Matti Kassila
Writers
- Matti Kassila
- Juha Nevalainen
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

252

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Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
The plot of the film is based on a dream that director Matti Kassila saw as he fell asleep when trying to figure out a new idea for a film.

Quotes
Mankela: [lecturing to Dr. Aitamaa] So you are saying, you were ready to go bed with that woman without even knowing her name?
Detective Maurila: You don't always have to know one's name to do so.

Connections
Featured in Sokkotanssi (1999)

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10/10

cult noir masterpiece from Finland

Fans of film noir mostly are fond of american and english film noir, forgetting noir europeen. A few french classics are worldly known ("Les Diaboliques" by Clouzot), but who knows about the rest? And what about this "Scarlet Dove" from Finland, a late 1961 perfect nightmare with a very precise cinematographic writing from beginning to end and with constant crescendo suspense with constant surprising and shocking details. Music score is as anxious as the husband. The casting is fabulous : Tauno Palo as the massive but anxious husband, Gunvor Sandkvist as his lying wife and Helen Elde as the lovely young girl (who looks like Shirley MacLaine), in fact all the actors are very well chosen for each character. "The Scarlet Dove" is inspired by the two noirs masters, Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz lang, shooting on location in Helsinki. "The Scarlet Dove" deserves to be a cult noir movie.

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