Fresh
[Makela] transmutes babyfaced Nykanen's slow descent into alcoholism and later move into pop music into a darkly comic picaresque.
Leslie Felperin, Variety
Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
2006 · 2h 21m · N/A
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Aleksi Mäkelä
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Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
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Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.
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