The Year of the Hare
1977 · TMDB 7.3 · Jäniksen vuosi
Directed by Risto Jarva
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life
Why it matters
Risto Jarva's Finnish comedy follows a journalist who hits a hare with his car, abandons his job and his marriage to nurse the animal, and drifts into a life of odd jobs and forest encounters. The hare becomes a companion, a conscience and a reason to refuse the city.
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Released
- 1977-12-23
- Studio
- Filminor
- Country
- Finland
- Language
- Finnish
- TMDB score
- 7.3
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