Directed by:
Riikka KuoppalaScreenplay:
Riikka KuoppalaCinematography:
Sarah BlumComposer:
Ylermi RajamaaCast:
Eeva Putro, Elena Leeve, Ylermi Rajamaa, Marikki Perälä, Kristiina Halkola, Heikki Häkkä, Timo Mann, Marja PackalénPlots(1)
A couple of years ago, I found a family archive of photographs and other documents from the 1970's that concerned the Finnish Communist movement "taistolaisuus". This is when the short film Singing for Lenin got started. As I browsed through the pictures, I realized how distant that era seemed even though there were many familiar faces in them. In this experimental film I will look at the movement with contemporary eyes. I wonder, if my generation who grew up in the 1980's could understand a time that ended before we were born and that still divides opinions so strongly. The screenplay of my film is partly based on interviews with participants of the 70's student movement. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Eeva Putro
Best movies:
Unknown Soldier (2017)
The Border (2007)
Silence (2011)
Elena Leeve
Finland
Best movies:
Beauty and the Bastard (2005)
Filth (2008)
The Mine (2016)
Ylermi Rajamaa
Best movies:
Gloriously Wasted (2012)
The Midwife (2015)
Kristiina Halkola
Finland
Best movies:
Skin, Skin (1966)
Any Day Now (2020)
Unna and Nuuk (2006)
Timo Mann
Finland
Best movies:
The Home of Dark Butterflies (2008)
1944: The Final Defence (2007)
Beauty and the Bastard (2005)
Marja Packalén
Finland
Best movies:
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Ariel (1988)
The Interrogation (2009)