Film

The Matriarch

2007 · 1h 35m · Comedy · Drama

IMDb

5.5

Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo, Repe and equally silly son-in-law Ventti. The family occasionally turns to crime when they can't quite make ends meet, and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business. Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kaspar, who becomes the family's sidekick in their travels. Despite Kaspar's inability to speak, he attracts Martha's youngest daughter, an attractive young woman named Lara, but the family is in disarray when a long-lost half-brother, Laszlo, suddenly re-emerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother.

Peter Franzén

Laszlo

Sanna-Kaisa Palo

Martta

Samuli Vauramo

Kasper

Jenni Banerjee

Lara

Heikki Kinnunen

Niccolo / Otto

Heikki Hela

Mojo

Mika Nuojua

Ruippa

Janne Reinikainen

Lutku

Ismo Apell

Jali Nappi

Puntti Valtonen

Jori

Emma Piitulainen

Anna

Elina Knihtilä

Roosa

Lotta Lehtikari

Veera

Kaarina Turunen

Hullu-Helena

Toni Wahlström

Ventti

Tuomas Uusitalo

Hippo

• Markku PölönenDirector · Writer · Editor
• Petri RossiProducer
• Jenni LähteenmäkiProducer
• Satu SadinkangasExecutive Producer
• Jan NymanDirector of Photography
• Vesa MäkinenOriginal Music Composer

Release date

September 14, 2007

Status

Released

Original language

Finnish

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

K-12

Budget

$1,400,000

Revenue

$435,000

Genres

Comedy, Drama