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The Year of the Wolf

2007 • 1h42m Drama, Romance

Rating

5.8/10

Popularity

1

Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works."

Details

Director

Olli Saarela

Screenplay

Mika Ripatti

Cast

Krista Kosonen

Kari Heiskanen

Johanna af Schultén

Release date

2/2/2007

Status

Released

Origin country

FI

Vote count

16