Trains'n'Roses (1998)
(Zugvögel...einmal nach Inari/Train Birds)
Country: GER/FIN
Technical: col 87m
Director: Peter Lichtefeld
Cast: Joachim Król, Outi Mäenpää, Peter Lohmeyer, Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen
Synopsis:
The driver of a brewery delivery truck has one passion - railway timetables - and takes a week off to take part in the first world championships at Inari, in the north of Finland. He is pursued by a policeman, who holds him suspect for the death of his boss, and meets an unhappy Finnish woman who dreams of growing roses by the lake...
Review:
Perhaps too self-consciously whimsical but definitely winning combination of chase movie and Bill Forsythian comedy. The acting is low key, the humour deadpan and ironic in a very German way, and the geographical detail of a journey undertaken by train to the Arctic circle yields its own Palinesque pleasures.
(Zugvögel...einmal nach Inari/Train Birds)
Country: GER/FIN
Technical: col 87m
Director: Peter Lichtefeld
Cast: Joachim Król, Outi Mäenpää, Peter Lohmeyer, Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen
Synopsis:
The driver of a brewery delivery truck has one passion - railway timetables - and takes a week off to take part in the first world championships at Inari, in the north of Finland. He is pursued by a policeman, who holds him suspect for the death of his boss, and meets an unhappy Finnish woman who dreams of growing roses by the lake...
Review:
Perhaps too self-consciously whimsical but definitely winning combination of chase movie and Bill Forsythian comedy. The acting is low key, the humour deadpan and ironic in a very German way, and the geographical detail of a journey undertaken by train to the Arctic circle yields its own Palinesque pleasures.
(Zugvögel...einmal nach Inari/Train Birds)
Country: GER/FIN
Technical: col 87m
Director: Peter Lichtefeld
Cast: Joachim Król, Outi Mäenpää, Peter Lohmeyer, Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen
Synopsis:
The driver of a brewery delivery truck has one passion - railway timetables - and takes a week off to take part in the first world championships at Inari, in the north of Finland. He is pursued by a policeman, who holds him suspect for the death of his boss, and meets an unhappy Finnish woman who dreams of growing roses by the lake...
Review:
Perhaps too self-consciously whimsical but definitely winning combination of chase movie and Bill Forsythian comedy. The acting is low key, the humour deadpan and ironic in a very German way, and the geographical detail of a journey undertaken by train to the Arctic circle yields its own Palinesque pleasures.