A Summer by the River

A Summer by the River (1998)

Kuningasjätkä

Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.

Date of release
1998-02-13
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Markku Pölönen

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Jussi Award for Best Film

A Summer by the River is a 1998 Finnish film written and directed by Markku Pölönen. The film is set in the 1950s Eastern Finland and tells the story of father Tenho and son Topi after Tenho's wife — Topi's mother — dies and leaves the two men unable to pay rent. The two men move out of the family home and spend the summer working as lumberjacks in log driving, sleeping on the riverbank and growing closer together through the experience.

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