A Summer by the River

Year: 1998

Runtime: 85 mins

Language: Finnish

Director: Markku Pölönen

DramaComedy

Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.

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