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FLOWERS OF EVIL

PAHAN KUKAT

By Antti J. JOKINEN

PICTURE TREE INTERNATIONAL GMBH - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2016

Shanghai IFF 2016

Competition Golden Goblet Award - Best Director

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Countries
- FINLAND
- Languages
- FINNISH
- Duration
- 105 mn
- Director(s)
- Antti J. JOKINEN
- Writer(s)
- Antti J. JOKINEN
- Cast
- Viljami NOJONEN, Jon KORHONEN, Eero AHO, Mikael GABRIEL, Diana TENKORANG
- Producer(s)
- Markus SELIN (SOLAR FILMS INC.), Jukka HELLE (SOLAR FILMS INC.)
- Synopsis
- With unrest long simmering below the surface in a majority immigrant Helsinki suburb, police brutality results in a father being hospitalised, the incident compounded by the authorities‘ mistakes and often unintentional overreactions. A typically long, hot Finnish summer explodes into riots and violence as frustration and despair fi nally boil over. Set against the run-up to this cataclysmic climax, half-brothers Sipe, 14, a good student but unwilling to accept life‘s restrictions and rules, and Juno, 26, hot tempered, prone to violence, a petty criminal, struggle for a better future, an end to their alienation and to fi nd new opportunities in life. Sipe, father Arttu and mother Laura want Juno to study, to work, to move out of the suburb and on in life. But for Juno it is already too little, too late. Having abandoned all hope, now completely estranged from society, he has made bad choices and travelled too far down the wrong road to turn back. The fuse is lit.