Film
The Year of the Hare
1977Directed by Risto Jarva
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- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 9m
About The Year of the Hare
- Comedy
- Drama
Synopsis
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
- Director
- Risto Jarva
- Writers
- Arto Paasilinna
- Kullervo Kukkasjärvi
- Risto Jarva
- Original title
- Jäniksen vuosi
