fiction.wikisort.org - Movie

Milka – A Film About Taboos (Finnish: Milka – elokuva tabuista) is a 1980 Finnish drama film directed by Rauni Mollberg. It was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Milka – A Film About Taboos
Directed by	Rauni Mollberg
Written by	Rauni Mollberg Timo K. Mukka
Produced by	Rauni Mollberg
Starring	Irma Huntus
Cinematography	Markku Lehmuskallio
Edited by	Tuula Mehtonen
Release date	19 December 1980 (1980-12-19)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Finland
Language	Finnish

Plot

Milka is a 14-year-old still childlike girl who lives with her mother in a tiny isolated community in Northern Finland. The girl misses her dead father and prays God to show her what love is. The mother employs a man nicknamed Christ-Devil to help in the hay making. He stays in the house and courts both the mother and daughter. Later he vanishes unexpectedly, and the mother, who wished to marry him, notices that Milka is pregnant by him.

Cast

• Irma Huntus as Milka Sierkkiniemi
• Leena Suomu as Anna Sierkkiniemi
• Matti Turunen as Ojanen, 'Kristus-Perkele'
• Eikka Lehtonen as Cantor Malmström
• Esa Niemelä as Auno Laanila
• Hellin Auvinen-Salmi as Villager
• Sirkka Metsäsaari as Mother Laanila
• Ulla Tapaninen as Ojanen's woman friend
• Toivo Tuomainen as Villager
• Tauno Lehtihalmes as Dean

Production

Director Rauni Mollberg used amateurs. Irma Huntus, a 17-year-old school girl, was cast in the title role. She had several naked scenes. These shots confused her life in the small village where she returned after the filming was over. Helena Ylänen wrote in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, that Mollberg had "unleashed his fascination with the white naked human flesh. He makes a number of excuses to undress people, in particular the undeveloped girl's body of Milka."[2]

References

External links

• Milka – A Film About Taboos at IMDb

---