| Pirtua, pirtua | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Visa Mäkinen |
| Written by | Visa Mäkinen Kari Levola Ilkka Liettyä Jouni Virta |
| Produced by | Visa Mäkinen |
| Cinematography | Keijo Mäkinen Visa Mäkinen |
| Edited by | Sini Mosti |
| Music by | Jouni Virta |
Production company | Tuotanto Visa Mäkinen |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Finland |
| Language | Finnish |
Pirtua, pirtua is a 1991 Finnish drama movie directed by Visa Mäkinen. The plot consists of a young man fighting against bootleggers in his home village during Finnish prohibition.
The movie, which was Visa Mäkinen's first attempt at a serious movie, ended up a box office flop, with only 1,650 tickets sold and caused losses of a million Finnish markka. Mäkinen gave up on making movies as a result. When Pirtua, Pirtua aired on the Finnish television channel MTV3 in May 1995, it was seen by 287,000 viewers. In June 2001, another 180,000 television viewers saw the movie.[1][2]
Critical reception
In the movie guide Video-opas in 1994, critic Olavi Similä praises the depiction of the subject matter, but finds the content mediocre, giving the movie a grade of two starts out of five.
References
- ↑ Erola, Jan: Visa Mäkinen iskee jälleen, Ylioppilaslehti (26 April 1996). Retrieved 31 January 2018. (in Finnish)
- ↑ Pirtua, pirtua at Elonet (in Finnish)