Noin seitsemän veljestä
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Director Jukka Virtanen Music director Jaakko Salo Country Finland | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Screenplay Spede Pasanen Duration Language Finnish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Juhani Kumpulainen (Linnanherra von Wurtzburg), Spede Pasanen (Sir Wilhelm / Robin Hood), Simo Salminen (Mauno Munalukko)Release date 23 August 1968 Writer Ere Kokkonen, Spede Pasanen, Jukka Virtanen Similar movies Spede Pasanen appears in Noin seitseman veljesta and wrote the screenplay for Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Noin seitsem n veljest
Noin seitsemän veljestä (Approximately Seven Brothers; also stylised as "Noin 7 Veljestä") is a 1968 comedy directed by Jukka Virtanen and which was written and produced by Spede Pasanen. The film is a loose parody of the Robin Hood story. The name of the film is a take on Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers) the ground-breaking novel by Finnish author Aleksis Kivi.
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Cast
Pop-artist Ilkka Lipsanen, credited by his stage-name Danny, appears as a singing bard in-between major scenes to narrate the story in song-form. Vesa-Matti Loiri appears in a supporting role as one of Von Wurtzburg's guards. Model Seija Tyni who performed in the official advertisements for the gas-station chain Esso appears in a scene parodying the commercials.
Production
Filming occurred mostly around Suomenlinna with Olavinlinna used for many wide-shots as a stand-in for the castle. The film's cast is composed of Pasanen's stock actors including Simo Salminen, Juhani Kumpulainen, Jukka Virtanen, Ere Kokkonen and Leo Jokela. It also featured the first major performance by Vesa-Matti Loiri in Spede's movies. Loiri previously acted as a child and had just graduated from acting college. Loiri and Spede would later go on to create the popular character Uuno Turhapuro
Director Virtanen was also involved in a life-threatening accident during filming when he fell out of the hot-air balloon seen during the finale. Finnish pop-singer Danny and director Jukka Virtanen wrote the song Seitsemän kertaa seitsemän (Seven times Seven) to serve as the narrative of the movie, performed by Danny. Danny later released a stand-alone version with different lyrics which went on to become one of his most enduring hits.