
The Year of the Hare
7.3/10
Release: 23/12/1977
Duration: 2h 9m

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Director:Risto Jarva
Writers
| Novel:Arto Paasilinna
| Screenplay:Arto Paasilinna
| Screenplay:Kullervo Kukkasjärvi
| Screenplay:Risto Jarva
Production
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