The Kidnapping of a President
2026 · 1h 27m · N/A
Comedy, Drama, History
Directed by
Samuli Valkama
Overview
In October 1930, a group of officers belonging to the Finnish army's top leadership decided, after a night of drinking, to kidnap Finland's retired first president, Ståhlberg. The Finnish people were divided in the aftermath of the civil war, and the political atmosphere was turbulent and tense. However, the kidnapping went wrong right from the start when the incompetent henchmen recruited for the job were forced to take the president's stubborn wife, Ester Ståhlberg, with them.
Director and cast
- Samuli Valkama Director
- Jussi Vatanen as Jaeger colonel Eero Kuussaari
- Aku Sipola as Colonel Kurt Wallenius
- Pertti Sveholm as President Ståhlberg
- Riitta Havukainen as Ester Ståhlberg
- Elias Salonen as Jukka Janné
- Alvari Stenbäck as Erkki Varoma
- Markus Misukka as Eino Olin
- Alex Paul Pukk as Sven Semenius
- Pääru Oja as Colonel Viklund
- Akseli Kouki as Colonel Inkala
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