Story
Jussi is starting a new job at the environment authority in Lapland and has the task of checking whether the regulations have been adhered to in a nickel mine. The mine is owned by a powerful mining company led by the charismatic Pekka. Jussi soon notices that there’s something fishy going on. Approval procedures are shortened, expert opinions ignored, favours dispersed. Pekka is the mastermind behind a corrupt web linking industry and state sector – and Jussi becomes part of it. Under pressure not to jeopardize a project that is politically desired and will create many jobs, he at first closes his eyes to the impending ecological disaster. But how long can he remain silent? A tense ecothriller, based on a true story that made the headlines in Finland a few years ago.
Director
Aleksi Salmenperä (*1973) works as a director and screenplay writer and became widely known through his films Producing Adults (2004), A Man's Work (2007) and Distractions (2015) for which he received the Finnish film prize.Trailer
Info
Jättiläinen
Fiction Feature
Finnish
Veto! | FF2016
Finland
2016
93 min
OV with English subtitles
Aleksi Salmenperä
Pekko Pesonen
Joonas Saartamo, Jani Volanen, Peter Franzén, Saara Kotkaniemi, Elena Leeve, Leea Klemola
Annika Sucksdorff, Aleksi Bardy
Tuomo Hutri
Samu Heikkilä
Ville Anselmi Tanttu
Otso Linnalaakso
The Yellow Affair
Helsinki-filmi Oy
Jenni Domingo, The Finnish Film Foundation: jenni.domingo@ses.fi