Foreign trailer for August Fools.
August Fools is a charming tribute to love—as well as a moving portrait of a tense, troubled era. It’s 1962, and an international "Festival of Friendship" has brought innu- merable "cultural delegations" to Helsinki. Among them (in addition to the thinly dis- guised KGB spies and CIA foils) are Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, a lovelorn Lee Harvey Oswald and a sad-faced Czechoslova- kian saxophonist who hopes to win back the Finnish woman he has pined for since World War II. His object of desire is Elsa (the inimi- table Kati Outinen, of Kaurismaki film fame), a hat-shop owner and part-time clairvoyant whose niece Minni also finds romance in the eclectic mix. As Chubby Checker’s "The Twist" becomes a tool of international diplomacy, politics and paranoia stand in the way. In the end, a timeless question remains: Can love prevail?
1 min 35 sec
Views
2,716
Posted On
October 10, 2013
Taru Mäkelä
Writer
Raija Talvio
Studio
Independent
Release
October 4, 2013
Laura Birn
Kati Outinen
Veera W. Vilo
Krystof Hádek
Cohlie Brocato
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