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The Well

4.4 108 mins Drama   1992
Kinofinlandia   Metronome Productions   FilmTeknik  
Director(s): Pekka Lehto

This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.

Casts of The Well

Merja Larivaara

as Anna-Maija Laakso

Auvo Vihro

as Matti Laakso

Katariina Kaitue

as Merja

Martti Suosalo

as Arvi Parikka

Otto Hakala

as Marko Laakso

Ossi Hakala

as Mika Tapani Laakso

Dick Idman

as Detective

Henriikka Salo

as Attorney

Leif Lindgren

as Young singer

Ludowica Eklund

as Guard

Cris af Enehielm

as Gas station girl

Erkki Mantere

as Speaker

Petri Aalto

as Contestant

Arno Virtanen

as Contestant

Seppo Kiuru

as Policeman

Sauli Uhre

as Taxi driver

Hector Mazzaglia

as Foreign man

Leea Klemola

as Lawyer on the phone (uncredited) (voice)

Lola Odusoga

as Girl drinking soda (uncredited)

Veikko Honkanen

as Police officer at hearing (uncredited) (voice)

Eeva-Liisa Haimelin

as Maternity ward nurse (uncredited)

Raimo Grönberg

as Priest (uncredited) (voice)

Marja-Leena Kouki

as Warden (uncredited) (voice)

Lauri Tykkyläinen

as Man at funeral (uncredited)

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