In a detention camp in 1918, a group of Finnish actors are sentenced to death. When an important German general arrives, the camps vicious commandant forges out a cruel plan: the imprisoners have to perform a comedy - and if they can make the visiting general laugh, they will be spared. A story about zest for life and power of laughter. Based on true events.
2018
HD
103min
Finland
Finnish
Heikki Kujanpää
Jani Volanen
Martti Suosalo
Jussi Nikkilä
Tommi Eronen
Vesa Vierikko
Paavo Kinnunen
Leena Pöysti
Panu Vauhkonen
Paleface
dark comedy
island prison
finnish civil war
