HopeaCine: The President's Ride

The HopeaCine series brings new Finnish films to Vuotalo with filmmaker visits. The October screening features Samuli Valkama's The President's Ride (Tue 27.10 at 14.00), followed by approximately 30 minutes of discussion with filmmakers or film experts.

Based on true events, the film takes us to Finland in 1930, where a group of officers kidnap the retired president K. J. Ståhlberg after a heavy drinking evening. The president's wife Ester Ståhlberg refuses to stay behind and squeezes into the same car - and so begins a journey through a turbulent Finland. What was true and what was legend in these events remains unknown to this day.

Starring: Elias Salonen, Aku Sipola, Jussi Vatanen. Language: Finnish. Duration: 1h30.

Other autumn screenings in the HopeaCine series are also held at Cinema Orion and Malmitalo. In November it's The Lapland War and in December Tell Everyone.