Directed by:
Aleksi MäkeläScreenplay:
Antti PesonenCinematography:
Pini HellstedtComposer:
Kalle ChydeniusCast:
Jarkko Niemi, Riku Nieminen, Tomi Alatalo, Alina Tomnikov, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Kari Hietalahti, Veera W. Vilo, Enni Ojutkangas, Roope Olenius (more)Plots(1)
It is bold to start making a film about such elements of close history that the people who experienced them are mostly alive, and about people that many others remember even if the characters themselves had perished. This is a gamble that Aleksi Mäkelä has taken full on. He is honest, in a sense, by not striving to make most of his characters look and act like their paragons. The film is about three friends (Atte Blom, Henrik-Otto Donner and Chrisse Schwindt) and their crazy idea to start a record company that would produce only their favourite music. The idea was crazy because around the time in the mid-60s the production of records was strictly dominated by a few monopolies that did not tolerate competition from miniature peers. To everyone's surprise, Love Records began to succeed mainly by producing political music and prog rock. The monopolies countered by placing Love under a distribution boycott. Despite that, Love was still successful but the leading trio ran into conflicts. The film focuses more on the three lead characters' relationships and not so much on the music. Here and there we see coeval celebrities, like Toivo Kärki, Katri Helena and Badding Somerjoki. The political side of music is hardly touched. (VpM) (Midnight Sun Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Antti Koivula
Finland
Fidel Castro (a.f.)
Cuba
Best movies:
Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015) - a.f.
The Eichmann Show (2015) (TV movie) - a.f.
Mick Jagger (a.f.)
UK
Best movies:
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour Live (2015) (concert)
The Rutles in All You Need Is Cash (1978) (TV movie)
The Rolling Stones: From the Vault - Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre 2015 (2015) (concert)
Heikki Kahila (a.f.)
Finland
Urho Kekkonen (a.f.)
Russian Empire
Nikita Khrushchev (a.f.)
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Velikij polkovoděc Georgij Žukov (1995) - a.f.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) - a.f.