A Respectable Tragedy
1998/09/18 • Released • Finnish
Overview
In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people.
Director : Kaisa Rastimo
Casts
Ville Virtanen
Tauno Saarinen
Maria Järvenhelmi
Jenny
Mari Rantasila
Adan piika
Kati Outinen
Midwife
Lotta Lindroos
Sirkka
Veikko Uusimäki
Priest
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