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Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.
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Audiences 57GoodWatch 58
IMDb5.7
Running time
1 h 35 min
A typical length for comedies, −5 min on the typical 100
typical 10095Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
1954
January 29, 1954
72 years ago
Genres
ComedyCrimeLanguage
Finnish
Original language
Made in
- Finland
and 16 more25 people
- LPLasse PöystiEsko Pekuri
- Sirkka-Liisa WilénMiss Judith
- Pentti ViljanenEvert Pinsiö
- Toivo MäkeläAnders
- Uljas KandolinTerävä
- Heikki SavolainenHoppu
- MTMatti TamminenRoivas
- Sakari JurkkaCaptain
- TMTarmo ManniUolevi Tiitinen
- Jussi JurkkaPrisoner
- Åke LindmanPrisoner
Pentti IrjalaPrisoner
Kaarlo HalttunenEemeli
Leo JokelaCrook
Kauko VuorensolaCrook
Kauko LaurikainenCrook
Uuno MontonenPrisoner
Veikko LinnaFaktori- ULUolevi LönnbergGuard
- PHPia HattaraÄiti valokuvaamossa
Heimo LepistöPrisoner
Matti LehteläPolice Officer
Jalmari ParikkaPrisoner (uncredited)- AHAimo HiltunenCrook (uncredited)
Directing · 1
- Aarne Tarkas Director, Writer
Production · 1
- Mauno Mäkelä Producer
Camera · 1
- Esko Töyri Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Nils Holm Editor
Sound · 2
- Kalevi Hartti Original Music Composer
- Gösta Salminen Sound
Art · 1
- Lauri Elo Production Design
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