The Year of the Hare (movie)
Jäniksen vuosi- User score: 7.1
- Production country: Finland
- Producer: Risto Jarva
- Production companies: Filminor
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Release date: 12/23/1977
- Run time: 129 min.
Movie description
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life
