Summer Rebellion

Summer Rebellion

81 mins | Drama | Jan. 23, 1970

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.

Summer Rebellion

81 mins | Drama | Jan. 23, 1970

Summer Rebellion
Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers Filminor, Filmiryhmä Oy
Original title Kesäkapina
Directors Jaakko Pakkasvirta
Writers Lasse Naukkarinen, Peter von Bagh, Jaakko Pakkasvirta

Cast

Titta Karakorpi

as Susanna, photo model

Hannu Oravisto

as Veli, Susannas brother

Veikko Honkanen

as marketing chief Jarmo Nieminen

Petra Frey

as insurance clerk Katri Pellinen

Eero Melasniemi

as Eki, Katris boyfriend

Ritva Arvelo

as Mrs. Heinä

Topi Reinikka

as Mr. Heinä, advertiser

Iris-Lilja Lassila

as Lady of the House

Lauri-Juhani Ruuskanen

as vicar of Hirvensalmi

Matti Ruohola

as Pekka, manager

Jaakko Talaskivi

as interviewer