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Wikipedia article




'The Matriarch' (Finnish: 'Lieksa!') is a 2007 Finnish comedy-drama film written, directed and edited by Markku Plnen and produced by the Plnen-owned film production company Suomen Filmiteollisuus.

Plot



Martta (Sanna-Kaisa Palo) and Otto (Heikki Kinnunen) are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo (Tuomas Uusitalo), Repe (Tatu Siivonen) and equally silly son-in-law Ventti (Toni Wahlstrm). The family occasionally turns to crime when they can't quite make ends meet, and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business. Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kasper (Samuli Vauramo), who becomes the family's sidekick in their travels. Despite Kasper's inability to speak, he attracts Martta's youngest daughter, an attractive young woman named Lara (Jenni Banerjee), but the family is in disarray when a long-lost half-brother, Laszlo (Peter Franzn), suddenly re-emerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother.

Cast



* Peter Franzn - Laszlo

* Sanna-Kaisa Palo - Martta

* Samuli Vauramo - Kasper

* Jenni Banerjee - Lara

* Heikki Kinnunen - Niccolo/Otto

* Toni Wahlstrm - Ventti

* Lotta Lehtikari - Veera

* Elina Knihtil - Roosa

* Puntti Valtonen - Jori

* Janne Reinikainen - Lutku

* Heikki Hela - Mojo

Soundtrack



The soundtrack includes the song "While Your Lips are Still Red" by Tuomas Holopainen and Marko Hietala.


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