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The Year of the Hare (1977) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1977 · 129 mins · Finnish
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- Directed by
- Risto Jarva
- Starring
- Heikki Nousiainen, Rita Polster, Antti Litja, Eija Nousiainen, Markku Huhtamo, Aapo Vilhunen
Vatanen, a young advertising executive, quits his Helsinki job and retreats to the Finnish wilderness. He nurses a hare injured by a car, and they find solitude in Lapland until noisy foreign tourists and pretentious Finnish hosts intrude. When the hare falls ill, Vatanen must return to the city and decide between his new rustic life and his former urban one.
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