Lapland Odyssey
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Overview
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.
Details
Budget
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Revenue
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Runtime
95 min
Release Date
2010-10-15
Status
Released
Original Language
Finnish
Vote Count
92
Vote Average
6.489
Jussi Vatanen
Janne
Jasper Pääkkönen
Kapu
Timo Lavikainen
Räihänen
Pamela Tola
Inari
Kari Ketonen
Pikku-Mikko
Miia Nuutila
Marjukka
Konsta Mäkelä
Hatunen
Sinikka Mokkila
Jannen äiti
Erkki Hetta
Jannen isä
Asko Sahlman
Martti Juntura
Rinna Paatso
Marjukan kaveri
Moa Gammel
Anna
Anna-Leena Härkönen
Reseptionisti
Camilla Jacobsen
Seireeni 1
Jane Timglas
Seireeni 2
Melissa Heininen
Kapua iskevä tyttö
Ulla Tapaninen
Räihäsen äiti
Markku Köngäs
Poliisi 1
Teuvo Alakunnas
Poliisi 2
Janne Reinikainen
Kittilän runkkari 1
Kari Hietalahti
Kittilän runkkari 2
Tommi Liski
Kittilän runkkari 3
Andrei Tsumak
Sergei
Ruslan Susi
Pjotr
Elvira Tensina
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Julia Lyubchenko
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Kari Koivukangas
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Minttu Leppänen
Oksentava tyttö
Pekka Hietaniemi
Ilmari Tuomi
Esa Harju
Toivo
Sakke Lipponen
Jaakko Kivi
Mikko Kunnari
Naiseton hippi
Keijo Haapalainen
Kalle Laamanen
Riitta Nilimaa
Nuuskakairan-baarin myyjätär
Jannika Öberg
Karaoke-emäntä
Kari Känsäkoski
Taksikuski Ylläksellä 1
Jarkko Ylläsjärvi
Taksikuski Ylläksellä 1
Maria Lahtinen
Huoltoaseman myyjätär
Matti Törhönen
Radion uutistenlukija (voice)
Jussi Eskola
Hiihtoselostaja (voice)
Joonas Makkonen
Mies baarissa (uncredited)
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