Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
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Titta Karakorpi
Susanna, photo model
Hannu Oravisto
Veli, Susannas brother
Veikko Honkanen
marketing chief Jarmo Nieminen
Petra Frey
insurance clerk Katri Pellinen
Eero Melasniemi
Eki, Katris boyfriend
Ritva Arvelo
Mrs. Heinä
Topi Reinikka
Mr. Heinä, advertiser
Iris-Lilja Lassila
Lady of the House
Lauri-Juhani Ruuskanen
vicar of Hirvensalmi
Matti Ruohola
Pekka, manager
Jaakko Talaskivi
interviewer
Matti Oravisto
kertoja
Eija Pokkinen
valokuvamalli Eija Pokkinen
Jorma Pulkkinen
Susannan partneri
Erik Uddström
aviomies pölyimurimainoksessa / paitansa studiossa riisuva mies
Jaakko Pakkasvirta
Director
Lasse Naukkarinen
Writer
Peter von Bagh
Writer
Erkki Peltomaa
Writer
Esa Vuorinen
Writer
Titta Karakorpi
Writer
Jaakko Pakkasvirta
Writer
Timo Linnasalo
Writer
Matti Kuortti
Writer
Juhani Jotuni
Writer
Anssi Blomstedt
Writer
Milja Ahola
Writer
Risto Jarva
Producer
Lasse Naukkarinen
Director of Photography
Jim Pembroke
Original Music Composer
