Stockholm Film Festival

Pater Noster tells a story of a father and a son, of two lives destroyed, of two souls imprisoned by their past. But it is also the story of one man's struggle to free himself from his nightmares.

Juhani is a sailor. After twenty years he returns home to an abandoned smallholding. He takes his father - a man who has been in hospital for years, living in his own phantom world - back to the farm. Because of a dark and unspeakable secret from his childhood, Juhani wants to settle accounts with his father and lay to rest the ghosts of the past. But in the desolate village he meets a woman and a child, and finds the possibility for a new life.

It is a liberating film. It does not aim to uncover the reasons that led to incest but rather to show the possibility of freeing oneself from the shadow of the past. At the same time it also shows how difficult it is for the man to assert himself in the face of a distorted male image.

Pater Noster is a horrifying and beautiful story, shocking - and hopeful.

Orig. titel

ISÄ MEIDÄN

Medverkande

Hannu Kivioja, Martti Katajisto, Elina Hurme, Heikki Kujanpää, Matti Onnismaa, Aino Aaltonen, Antti Mattila

Producent

Raili Salmi

Manus

Veikko Aaltonen

Foto

Olavi Tuomi

Musik

Mauri Sumen

Talat språk

Finnish

 

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