Putoavia enkeleita

Plot

This earnest, Finnish-language psychodrama (with its distinct echoes of The Bell Jar and Frances) concerns Helena Viita (Elena Leeve), the daughter of two divorced writers. Though Helena harbors only the vaguest recollections of her childhood, she places her father on a pedestal and nurtures resentment against her mother, whom she blames for breaking up the family. Shortly after Helena learns of a biography her mom is writing, she suffers from a nervous breakdown and winds up in a mental institution; her mother, Aila (Elina Knihtila) then arrives from Sweden to tend to her daughter. When Helena reads the autobiography her mother has written (as a stage in her treatment) it whisks her back to the artistic world of her parents in the '40s and '50s and gives her a much different, much darker picture of her father than she ever had before. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

Cast

• Tommi Korpela - Lauri Viita
• Elina Knihtila - Aila Meriluoto
• Elena Leeve - Helena Viita

Oiva Lohtander; Tiina Pirhonen; Taneli Makela; Antti Litja; Hannu Kivioja; Taisto Oksanen; Juhani Niemela; Jani Volanen

Credit

Heikki Kujanpaa - Director, Jukka Nykanen - Editor, Timo Hietala - Composer (Music Score), Harri Raty - Cinematographer, Tero Kaukomaa - Producer, Petri Jokiranta - Producer, Heikki Kujanpaa - Screenwriter, Sami Parkkinen - Screenwriter, Heikki Huttu-Hiltunen - Screenwriter

Previous:	Putney Swope (1969 Film), Putin's Kiss (2011 Film)
Next:	Putovani Jana Amose (1984 Film), Putovanje Na Mjesto Nesrece (1971 Film)