The Grump

I was so upset when I got to the film. It's got colour and sound. It was written on their computers by floppy-hat favourites director Dome Karukoski and writer Tuomas Kyrö. Yes, they are foreign names to me. I myself am played by Antti Litja, I've always preferred him because he's no slouch.

Synopsis

That tells about about me. I'm already eighty years old and I've always lived at home. You've got to check the nets, pick up the potatoes and do the chores. Silence has always been the way to get by in the deepest of Finland. But then I hurt my leg and have to go to the capital, supposedly for some kind of physiopheraty. I'm taken by taxi to a place where there are trams and no one wears a headgear. My son stays at home because someone has to go and feed the wife. She has Mr. Alshaimer's disease and that's why she had to go to the Kuusikoti patients' bed ward. I have to live in the big house alone now. My son is played by someone like Iikka Forss. I don't know which is his first name and which is his surname.

I have to go to my daughter-in-law first. This Mari Perankoski is very much like a daughter-in-law should be. She's afraid of me and I'm a little afraid of her. She has more of a pretty face than a working man's face. I can't find a common language with my daughter-in-law over the weekend. I'm used to eating animal tongue and my daughter-in-law is more used to learning languages. Like the Soviet Union, for example.

A lot is different in the capital than at home. Wives go to work and husbands go to school. People and stoves are touched and not clicked or banged like in my world. But outside the house, there is work to be done. The gutters need cleaning, the intermediate well needs emptying and yes, the daughter-in-law needs help with an important negotiation with the Soviets. I'll try to show them how things were done when things were good. Namely in year fifty and three. You can't, there'll be problems between people. And between nations. And between the tree and Ford Eskort.

5.9. everyone gets upset.

Tuomas Kyrö 24.4.2014
author

The film tells a beautiful, humorous and touching story of the generation gap and love, of giving up and finding something new. The touching story is based on the successful books by author Tuomas Kyrö, The Grump, The Grump and the Brown Sauce and The Daughter-in-law.

Director Dome Karukoski
Dome Karukoski is one of the most respected filmmakers in the country, known to the nation for his hit films The Lionheart (2013), The Heroes of the Arctic Circle (2010), Forbidden Fruit (2009), Home of the Dark Butterflies (2008) and Girl You Are a Star (2005). In 2013, Variety, the film industry's most prominent publication, named Karukoski as the first Finn to be included in its "10 Directors To Watch" list of the world's top 10 most interesting directors. He has been nominated for the Jussi Award for Best Director for all his films and has won the award twice.

IN THE MAIN ROLES
The Grump – ANTTI LITJA
Wife – PETRA FREY
Son – IIKKA FORSS
Daughter-in-law – MARI PERANKOSKI

Other roles include:
VIKTOR DREVITSKI
KARI KETONEN
MIKKO NEUVONEN
BRUNO PUOLAKAINEN
JANNE REINIKAINEN
ALINA TOMNIKOV