The Year of the Hare

Name: The Year of the Hare
Director: Risto Jarva
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1977-12-23
Duration: 2 h 9 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Antti Litja, Kauko Helovirta, Markku Huhtamo, Paavo Hukkinen, Juha Kandolin

Directed by Risto Jarva

Comedy

Drama

19772h 9m7.3

Overview

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life