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Bookmark this pageFlame Top (1980)
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo, Pekka Lehto
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From Time Out Film Guide
Finnish epic about a celebrated national hero, Maiju Lassila: novelist, revolutionary and wealthy businessman. From his poor, rural childhood, through his arrival in St Petersburg in 1900, his success as a writer, his exile in the Finnish forests, and his eventual imprisonment and death, the film charts Lassila's political development - his terrorist activities against the Russians, and his part in the 1918 Finnish Civil War. Shot on location not only in Finland but also in Leningrad, the film is well-crafted and authentic, but the slow pace and broodingly melancholic atmosphere make it generally heavy-going.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo, Pekka Lehto
Cast: Asko Sarkola, Rea Mauranen, Kari Franck, Esko Salminen, Ritva Juhanto, Markku Blomqvist
Genre(s): Epics
Duration: 141 mins
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