The Scandinavian House in cooperation with the Evald Cinema, the distribution company CinemArt, and the Embassy of Finland in Prague presents within the project Nordic Film Thursdays and the campaign #ReadNordic the Finnish comedy
A CHARMING MASS SUICIDE (Finland, 2000, 118 min)
Director and screenplay: Ere Kokkonen
Based on a novel by: Arto Paasilinna
Stars: Tom Pöysti, Heikki Kinnunen, Sari Siikander, Santeri Kinnunen, Kristiina Halkola
Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a “Let’s do it together”-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find a suitable place for the mass suicide. The trip takes them from Finland via Norway to the Central Europe. And finally on the verge – is life worth dying for? (IMDB)
An unforgettable movie by the director Ere Kokkonen based on an equally unforgettable book of the same name written by the Finnish humorist Arto Paasilinna (The Year of the Hare, The Howling Miller). Almost twenty characters with unbelievable life stories decide to end it all and commit a mass suicide. But throughout their journey across Europe they gradually start to realize they might not be all that keen on dying after all and that life is possibly less tragic than it first seemed.
Before the movie, a short introduction on Arto Paasilinna and his novels shall be given by Czech translator Vladimír Piskoř.
In Finnish original sound with Czech subtitles.
Entrance: 110 CZK
Tickets available on www.evald.cz
The project Nordic Film Thursdays is supported by Prague City Hall. The film screening takes place in cooperation with the Embassy of Finland in Prague within the campaign #ReadNordic. Finnish part of the campaign was supported by the Nordic Culture Fund, Finnish Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers and companies Tieto Czech, Nokian Tyres, Škoda Transportation and YIT.
Image sources: kavi.fi, elonet.fi
