

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
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Cast

Titta Karakorpi
Susanna, photo model
Hannu Oravisto
Veli, Susannas brother
Veikko Honkanen
marketing chief Jarmo Nieminen
Petra Frey
insurance clerk Katri Pellinen

Eero Melasniemi
Eki, Katris boyfriend

Ritva Arvelo
Mrs. Heinä
Topi Reinikka
Mr. Heinä, advertiser
Iris-Lilja Lassila
Lady of the House
Lauri-Juhani Ruuskanen
vicar of Hirvensalmi
Matti Ruohola
Pekka, manager

Jaakko Talaskivi
interviewer

Matti Oravisto
kertoja
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