Salla - Selling the Silence
“Do you know what is happening in Lapland?”
2011•S•1h 10m•6.5•Released
Documentary
Selling the Silence is a creative documentary film. It witnesses the rise and fall of one family of entrepreneurs, the Kuukkanen family from Salla, Lapland, side-by-side with the current changes in the values of our society. In combining private and personal family memories with ongoing changes in the scenery, the documentary asks: How to avoid irreversible changes in the nature when earning your living? Selling the Silence is a journey to the North, past and present. Sometimes the journey can be surprising, sometimes sad, sometimes absurd in a black Finnish way. When the film asks: ”What is the price of the wilderness?”, it is also a question of identity: Who you really are? What is your real nature?
Director
Markku Tuurna
Writer
Tarja Kylmä, Markku Tuurna
Languages
Finnish
Studio
Filmimaa
Cast
Jyrki Kuukkanen
Self
Kari Väyrynen
Self
Erkka Parkkinen
Self
Henry Hulkko
Self
Markku Kankaanranta
Self
Aarne Aatsinki
Self
Ville Aho
Self
Maria Mänty
Self
Pirjo Tolonen
Self
Piritta Kuukkanen
Self
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