The world ended. These guys found a pinball machine. Priorities.
Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.
Direction
Mika's debut, shot before Aki found his deadpan religion
Practical Effects
Genuine Helsinki ruins as sci-fi set—budget necessity as aesthetic
Director
Mika Kaurismäki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aki Kaurismäki acts in this—rare on-screen appearance before he decided directing was less embarrassing.
Shot in actual demolition zones of 1982 Helsinki; the 'post-apocalypse' was just Tuesday urban planning. The Kaurismäki brothers essentially invented Finnish cinematic stoicism from rubble and boredom.
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