Picture By Jari Salo

Death is a problem for the living

Directed by Teemu Nikki | Feature film | 2024

For Risto and Arto, the cheapest hearse drivers in the market, everything went wrong. Risto is a hardened gambler who, due to his addiction, risks losing his family and job, while Arto discovers he was born with 85% less brain than the average, and this revelation leaves him feeling empty. Risto sees his only salvation in the very source of his destruction, gambling, and hopes for a big win to repay all his debts. Arto, on the other hand, before discovering his medical condition, led a normal life with his wife and a job as a teacher in a kindergarten. Even though Arto has little to no brain and Risto lacks heart, together their situation is not entirely hopeless. Without jobs and without family, the two friends sleep in the old hearse they use to transport bodies, hoping every morning to find a solution to their existence. In addition to transporting the deceased for funerals and burials, the two end up accepting jobs that are not always entirely legal: Ulla Sonni, a producer of programs for the dark web, takes an interest in their services and wants to use them to dispose of the bodies of the losing players in a show called “Live Rounds,” a live-streamed Russian roulette game on the internet. Naturally, things don’t go as planned, and Risto and Arto will end up putting their own lives at stake.

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Status
concluded
Direction
Teemu Nikki
Production
Tcb S.r.l. (Italia) / It's Alive Films (Finlandia)
SUBJECT and SCRIPT
Teemu Nikki
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Jyrki Arnikari F.S.C. (R.I.P.) / Sari Aaltonen
EDITING
Teemu Nikki
MUSIC
Marco Biscarini
COSTUMES
Suvi Lukkala-Mäkinen / Anna Vilppunen
CAST
Pekka Strang / Jari Virman / Elina Knihtilä / Hannamaija Nikander / Pihla Penttinen / Livo Tuuri
Duration
85'
LOCATION
Helsinki; Kerava; Espoo (Finlandia)
YEAR AND RELEVANT REGIONAL CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
bando regionale - Anno 2022
DISTRIBUTION
I Wonder Pictures