Film
Comedy

The Kidnapping of a President

Mon 21 Sep from 19:15 till 20:49

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Country

Finland

Year

2026

Language

Fins gesproken, Dutch subtitles

Cast

Jussi Vatanen, Aku Sipola, Pertti Sveholm, Riitta Havukainen, Elias Salonen

Director

Samuli Valkama

Duration

84 min

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Finland, 1930. After a drunken evening, an officer accidentally gives the order to kidnap the first president of Finland, carried out by a bunch of hopelessly clumsy accomplices. Based on true events.

Lieutenant Eero is passed over for promotion yet again and hits the bottle hard. The next morning, he finds out that, without remembering it, he has ordered the kidnapping of the first president of Finland, Ståhlberg.

The plan is executed by a group of hopelessly clumsy accomplices and goes completely awry right from the start when Ståhlberg's stubborn wife Ester ends up in the back of the car as well. What follows is a hilarious, escalating series of events.

Based on one of the most bizarre pages in Finnish history.