
Overview
Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on a true story
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Filming locations
Filmed in Sumiainen and Liimattala
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Setting
Set in Korppinen
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Music
Music by Erkki Ertama
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Mikko NiskanenWriter
- Original title
- Kahdeksan surmanluotia
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 15, 1972
- Original language
- Finnish
- Countries
- Finland
























