Event
Lumberjacks and Logrollers Ferryboat Romance (On lautalla pienoinen kahvila)
Fri Jul 12: 8.00pm
Thure Bahne
Finland
1952
1h 27m
Series - Lumberjacks and Logrollers: Icons of Finnish Cinema
Discussion
** Followed by a Q&A with festival curator Dr. Vito Adriaensens **
About
** Co-presented with Department of Scandinavian Studies Finnish Studies Program and Nordic Museum **
Ferryboat Romance was the feature film directing debut of renowned Finnish actor Thure Bahne, who had been a mainstay in Finnish cinema since the 1930s. The film has the stunning journalist Sanni (Tuija Halonen) visiting the countryside to write about the timber industry. Looking for a room she is immediately thrust into the merry community of loggers, always up for a song, but one of them, Hurma-Jussi, is a little too persistent. Luckily, she is saved from Hurma-Jussis claws by the handsome lumberjack Eräs (William Markus). Sanni learns about the community by working as an assistant to cook Marleena (played by Finnish icon Siiri Angerkoski), who is pursued by the jolly oaf Metku (character actor Kalle Viherpuu). Persistently rejected by Sanni, Hurma-Jussi turns to drastic measures and kidnaps her, but he has underestimated her friends in the small logging community. The film is beautifully shot and not only wonderfully portrays the romance between a young couple, but even more so the love between the older Marleena and Metku.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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