The Year of the Hare

Year: 1977

Runtime: 129 mins

Language: Finnish

Director: Risto Jarva

DramaComedy

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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