Midnight Screenings 2023 / Sisu / Finland, United Kingdom 2022
Stoic determination, resilience, bravery, equanimity, and tenacity of purpose – these are the characteristics of sisu, a concept that Finns associate with their “national character.” In the eponymous film, these qualities are embodied by a gruff man of few words capable of brutally and efficiently killing Nazis. Sisu is a survivalist action film stripped down to the bone in which a tired unit of Nazis at the end of the war fights a lone but practically indestructible gold prospector. A wildly exaggerated feast of blood and suffering, the film is part Western and part ironic Finnish answer to the dated action flicks of Sylvester Stallone et al.
Antonín Tesař
91 min / Color, DCP
Director Jalmari Helander
/ Screenplay Jalmari Helander
/ Dir. of Photography Kjell Lagerroos
/ Music Juri Seppa, Tuomas Wainola
/ Sound Panu Rikkonen
/ Editor Juho Virolainen
/ Art Director Otso Linnalaakso
/ Producer Petri Jokiranta, Mike Goodridge
/ Production Subzero Film Entertainment, Stage 6 Films, Good Chaos
/ Cast Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo, Onni Tommila
/ Sales Sony Pictures
/ Distributor Falcon a.s.
Jalmari Helander (1976, Helsinki). Selected filmography: Rare Exports Inc. (2003, short), Rare Exports: The Official Safety Instructions (2005, short), Rare Exports (2010), Big Game (2014), Sisu (2022).
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