The cheapest drivers in the hearse business, gambling addict Risto Kivi and his friend Arto Niska, an 85% brainless man, have found themselves in a situation where everything has gone wrong and a fresh start is needed.
Acting
Strang's sweaty desperation; Virman's physical precision.
Direction
Nikki's tonal tightrope — laugh, then feel sick.
Writing
Dialogue so bleak it circles back to funny.
Director
Teemu Nikki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Finnish 'kalsarikännit' culture (drinking alone in underwear) meets the country's historically high suicide rates — this is self-aware national therapy.
Director Teemu Nikki made this after his wife's cancer diagnosis; the film's gallows humor was literally how they coped. That funeral home? His actual friend's business.
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