International Series Competition

The Man Who Died

Mies joka kuoli

Swiss Premiere

Brendan Foley, Markku Flink, Samuli Valkama

Finland, Germany, 2022

Serie : 6x43'

Onsite
Episodes1-2/6 (91')

Online (from 13.11)

Episodes3-6/6

VO. Finnish, English

ST. English, French

Rollercoaster nordic noir

With

Jussi Vatanen, Saara Kotkaniemi, Sara Soulié

In presence of Markku Flink and Samuli Valkama, Sunday November 6.

If your doctor said to you: "We're going to poison you slowly", you probably wouldn't react like Jaakko. Taking a stoic approach, he decides to investigate his own murder. It's a tall order and a hilarious story.

After suffering from headaches and stomach pains, Jaakko, a Finnish exporter of matsutake, a type of mushroom that sells for a fortune in Japan, goes to see a doctor. But the diagnosis he's given is hard to swallow: "You are dying" and "You are being slowly poisoned". Placed in an uncomfortable position, to say the least, he decides to investigate his own murder before he kicks the bucket. Jussi Vatanen's unflappable expression that, in the most hopeless or extraordinary situations, conveys just the slightest suggestion of weariness, injects this adaptation of Antti Tuomainen's bestseller with a dose of dark humor like only the Scandinavians know how.
Anna Percival

Creation

Brendan Foley, Markku Flink, Samuli Valkama

Direction

Samuli Valkama

Screenplay

Brendan Foley

Image

Anssi Leino

Editing

Toni Tikkanen

Sound

Pietari Koskinen