Milka – A Film About Taboos is a 1980 Finnish drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Rauni Mollberg

Rauni Mollberg

Rauni Mollberg was a Finnish film director who directed movies and TV movies.In 1963 Mollberg directed movies for YLE. He directed a version of The Unknown Soldier in 1985, 30 years after Edvin Laine directed the original version of it. Mollberg's movie's plot was same as Laine's movie...

. It was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival

31st Berlin International Film Festival

The 31st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 February 1981.-Jury:* Jutta Brückner * Denis Héroux* Astrid Henning-Jensen* Irina Petrovna Kuptschenko* Peter Bichsel* Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi...

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Plot

Milka is an 14 years old still childlike girl, who lives with her mother in a tiny isolated community in Northern Finland. The girl misses her dead father and prays God to show her what love is. The mother employs a man nicknamed Christ-Devil to help in the hay making. He stays in the house and courts both the mother and daughter. Later he vanishes unexpectedly and the mother, who wished to marry him, notices, that Milka is pregnant to him.

Cast

• Irma Huntus - Milka Sierkkiniemi
• Leena Suomu - Anna Sierkkiniemi
• Matti Turunen - Ojanen, 'Kristus-Perkele'
• Eikka Lehtonen - Cantor Malmström
• Esa Niemelä - Auno Laanila
• Hellin Auvinen-Salmi - Villager
• Sirkka Metsäsaari - Mother Laanila
• Ulla Tapaninen - Ojanen's woman friend
• Toivo Tuomainen - Villager
• Tauno Lehtihalmes - Dean