The Manila Rope
Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.
Year: 1976
Studio: YLE
Director: Veli-Matti Saikkonen
Cast: Erkki Pajala, Vesa Mäkelä, Martti Kuningas, Esko Hukkanen, Hannu Kahakorpi, Iris-Lilja Lassila
Crew: Veli-Matti Saikkonen (Director), Veijo Meri (Writer), Heikki Valpola (Music), Osmo Savolainen (Special Effects), Anneli Wirtavuori (Costume Design), Risto Salo (Editor)
Runtime: 75 minutes
Release: Sep 28, 1976
IMDb: 5.20/10 by 4 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Finland
Language: suomi
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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