The innocent Candide discovers that human beings aren't all they are cracked up to be and ultimately focuses on building his own life on his own terms.
Joe is a cynical screenplay writer disenchanted by his ill luck on the Hollywood scene. Norma is a washed-up silent-film star who didn't survive the transition to talking pictures. Together they begin a strange, mostly psychological, affair in her decaying house on Sunset Boulevard. Film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the iconic 1950 film.
Cavalryman Kalle Kollola makes a fool of himself in order to get by with less service during his time in the army. Aunt Loviisa, who has come to see him, urges her witty but lazy cousin to straighten up. Aunt Loviisa also helps Miss Hilja Aro settle her differences with the horse master Kalpa.
Sweded version of the famous sequence-shot dance scene from La La Land. (A Sweded film is a reproduction of a famous movie, made on a very low budget, often with handcrafted equipments and with a “homemade” look. This term come form the movie “Be Kind, Rewind” by Michel Gondry.)
Directorial debut of Wolfgang Petersen