Focus Nordic
Finnish Blood Swedish Heart
Laulu koti-ikävästä
Directors
Mika Ronkainen
Producers
Klaffi Tuotanno
Ulla Simonen
Cinematographers
Vesa Taipaleenmäki
Editors
Åsa Mossberg
Sound
Esa Nissi
Official Film Website
Contact
The Finnish Film Foundation
Marja Pallassalo
Kanavakatu 12
FI-00160 Helsinki
+358 9 6220 3021
[email protected]
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2012
Finland, Sweden
90 min
Color
Kai and his father Tauno drive from Oulu in northern Finland down to Gothenburg where they lived during the ‘70s. The drive becomes a musical journey through emotional memories and the history of Finnish emigration to Sweden; a history too of shame, guilt, crime, alcoholism and family secrets.
Mika Ronkainen (born 1970 in Kuusamo, Finland) is a Finnish film director from Oulu, Northern Finland. His best-known films are documentaries Screaming Men (2003) and Freetime Machos (2009), the former being a portrayal of a Finnish screaming male choir Mieskuoro Huutajat, and latter being a portrayal of a rugby team which is allegedly the most northern and the third lousiest in the world.
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