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Comedy / Drama / History

The Kidnapping of a President.

In October 1930, a group of officers belonging to the Finnish army's top leadership decided, after a night of drinking, to kidnap Finland's retired first president, Ståhlberg. The Finnish people were divided in the aftermath of the civil war, and the political atmosphere was turbulent and tense. However, the kidnapping went wrong right from the start when the incompetent henchmen recruited for the job were forced to take the president's stubborn wife, Ester Ståhlberg, with them.

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Directed by Samuli Valkama

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STORY

Cast.

Jussi Vatanen

Jussi Vatanen

Jaeger colonel Eero Kuussaari

Aku Sipola

Aku Sipola

Colonel Kurt Wallenius

Pertti Sveholm

Pertti Sveholm

President Ståhlberg

Riitta Havukainen

Riitta Havukainen

Ester Ståhlberg

Elias Salonen

Elias Salonen

Jukka Janné

Alvari Stenbäck

Alvari Stenbäck

Erkki Varoma

Markus Misukka

Markus Misukka

Eino Olin

Alex Paul Pukk

Alex Paul Pukk

Sven Semenius

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