The Year of the Hare backgrop image
The Year of the Hare poster

The Year of the Hare

1977 • 2h9m Comedy, Drama

Rating

7.3/10

Popularity

5

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

Details

Director

Risto Jarva

Screenplay

Arto Paasilinna

Kullervo Kukkasjärvi

Risto Jarva

Cast

Antti Litja

Kauko Helovirta

Markku Huhtamo

Release date

12/23/1977

Status

Released

Origin country

FI

Vote count

25