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LAUGH OR DIE

SUOMEN HAUSKIN MIES

By Heikki KUJANPÄÄ

MEDIA LUNA NEW FILMS - as SALES World / CONS

Drama - Completed 2018

A 1918 German detention camp houses sentenced Finnish prisoners. With the upcoming visit of an external General comes the vicious deal: ‘Perform a play worth a General’s smirk, your life will be spared’. The incognito actors have a plan.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FINLAND
- Languages
- FINNISH
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Heikki KUJANPÄÄ
- Writer(s)
- Mikko REITALA
- Cast
- Martti SUOSALO, Jani VOLANEN, Rüdiger KLINK
- Producer(s)
- Klaus HEYDEMANN
- Synopsis
- In a detention camp in 1918, a group of Finish actors are sentenced to death. When an important German general arrives, the camp’s vicious commandant forges out a cruel plan: The prisoners have to perform a play - and if they can make the visiting general laugh, they will be spared. Due to the brutal conditions within the camp, this goal seems to be impossible to reach. But after some time, even the commandant’s wife starts to sympathise with the prisoners, watching them rehearsing dressed up in woman’s clothes.