CAST:
Matti Pellonpää (Manne),
Pirkko Hämäläinen (Veera),
Juuso Hirvikangas (Harri),
Esko Nikkari (Hagström),
Jorma Markkula (Mitja),
Aki Kaurismäki (Ville Alfa)

SCRIPT:
Aki Kaurismäki,
Mika Kaurismäki

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Timo Salminen

Synopsis:
This is Mika Kaurismäki’s first feature film. It tells the story of Manne who gets a visit from a group of gangsters asking him to repay an old debt. They give him two weeks to collect money but Manne decides to run away knowing that he will not be able to find all the money. In the middle of the night he leaves Helsinki in the company of Veera, an old friend who also has a reason to flee.

color, 119 min