A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Direction
Kaurismäki's static camera makes pain absurdly funny.
Acting
Kuosmanen's wordless suffering is devastating comedy.
Director
Aki Kaurismäki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kaurismäki's 'Finland trilogy' uses working-class tragedy to critique 1990s economic collapse.
Based on a 1911 novel — Kaurismäki kept the 1911 cars and phones to create timeless alienation.
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