Saatanan Radikaalit
Saatanan Radikaalit ('Damned Radicals') is a 1971 Finnish comedy film starring and directed by Paavo Piironen, Heikki Nousiainen, Heikki Huopainen and Timo Nissi. It was financed and produced by Finnish film-maker Spede Pasanen, but unlike the comedy films he had produced previously he did not feature him on-screen. The movie was released in 1971, the same year as Spede's Hirttämättömät and Kahdeksas Veljes. The film was intended to give its four stars a start in the Finnish film industry as both directors and leading actors.
Plot
Four Finns Paavo, Hese, Viiksi and Timppa are enjoying themselves too much in Hell (Hell being depicted as a Finnish sauna), so Perkele and Satan send them back to Finland for a vacation. They're given a suitcase full of money and (unbeknownst to them) are made incapable of becoming drunk. On their way out of hell, they steal a car and pick up enough hitchhikers to alert the police. When the quartet escape the scene, however, they leave their money behind. Next, they attempt to earn money by various illegal means, including a bank-robbery which lands Hese in jail.
More details
| author | Heikki Huopainen Heikki Nousiainen Paavo Piironen Timo Nissi |
|---|---|
| director | Paavo Piironen |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | clothe in hell nothing pick up suitcase full of money their way |
| musicBy | Esa Helasvuo |
| producer | Spede Pasanen |
| publisher | Finnkino |