A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
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Title: Juha (1999)
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2 wins & 8 nominations.
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| Sakari Kuosmanen | ... | Juha | |
| Kati Outinen | ... | Marja | |
| André Wilms | ... | Shemeikka | |
| Markku Peltola | ... | Autonkuljettaja | |
| Elina Salo | ... | Shemeikan sisar | |
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Ona Kamu | ... | Shemeikan nainen |
| Outi Mäenpää | ... | Shemeikan nainen | |
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Tuire Tuomisto | ... | Shemeikan nainen |
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Tatjana Solovjova | ... | Tanssija (as Tatiana Soloviova) |
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Esko Nikkari | ... | Nimismies |
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Jaakko Talaskivi | ... | Henkivartija |
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Safka Pekkonen | ... | Tango-orkesterin jäsen |
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Sami Kuoppamäki | ... | Tango-orkesterin jäsen |
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Juuso Norlund | ... | Tango-orkesterin jäsen |
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Anssi Tikanmäki | ... | Tango-orkesterin jäsen |
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A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
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Music by Antoine Renard
Lyrics by Jean-Baptiste Clément
Performed by Elina Salo
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The movie makes references to Nazarin (1959) with an upside-down poster of the film that can be seen on a wall, and also to Samuel Fuller - behind the village police commissioner that Juha goes to see, a sentence is written on the blackboard which says: "Arrest this man! - Sam Fuller". See more »Alternate Versions
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Le Temps des CerisesMusic by Antoine Renard
Lyrics by Jean-Baptiste Clément
Performed by Elina Salo
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May 2003 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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FIM4,773,394 (estimated)Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$159,298Company Credits
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A pleasant little trifle - a modern-day Finnish silent film, with few intertitles (but a somewhat tacky music score) about a decent cabbage farmer whose wife is lured away by a seedy underworld type. The film sketches their initial contented lifestyle with deliberate naivete ("Happy as children," says the caption), all the better to set up the ultimate tragedy. Cleanly and simply shot, the film is obviously no great shakes, but it places itself with total conviction within the silent film aesthetic - tipping us off to the villain's nastiness, for example, through an unselfconscious shot of him stepping gleefully on a butterfly; and also finding room for a classic-type shot of a dog running after the bus carrying away his master. The design of just-so-slightly exaggerated faces and postures is sustained quite well, setting up an ending that seems authentically modern and tragic for all its bogeyman-type trappings.