Frozen Land is a 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 critically acclaimed dark Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 directed and written by Aku Louhimies

Aku Louhimies

Aku Louhimies is a Finnish film director and screenwriter.-Education:He studied at the University of Helsinki and in University of Art and Design Helsinki.-Career:Louhimies has directed six feature-length films:...

 starring Jasper Pääkkönen

Jasper Pääkkönen

Jasper Pääkkönen is a Finnish film actor who has appeared and starred in over 15 films. According to a calculation published by Finnish tabloid IltaSanomat, Pääkkönen is "the most profitable film actor in Finland" for having starred in numerous box office hits during his career...

, Mikko Leppilampi

Mikko Leppilampi

Mikko Johannes Leppilampi is a Finnish actor and musician who is the son of Jukka Leppilampi , a Finnish gospel musician. Leppilampi is considered to be one of the most promising stars of Finland's movie industry in the new millennium...

 and Pamela Tola

Pamela Tola

Pamela Tola is a Finnish actress.Tola was born in Ruotsinpyhtää, Finland. She has mostly appeared on television since 2003. She appeared in the 2005 film Paha maa , and starred as the main character in the 2006 film Saippuaprinssi , both times working with Mikko Leppilampi...

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Plot

When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit

Counterfeit

To counterfeit means to illegally imitate something. Counterfeit products are often produced with the intent to take advantage of the superior value of the imitated product...

 money

Money

Money is any object or record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context. The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, occasionally in the past,...

. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.

The film plot is based on (but not credited) on Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...

's "The Forged Coupon

The Forged Coupon

The Forged Coupon is a novella in two parts by Leo Tolstoy. Though he first conceived of the story in the late 1890s, he did not begin writing it until 1902. After struggling for several years, he finally completed the story in 1904; however, it was not published until some of Tolstoy's shorter...

" part 1 like Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson

-Life and career:Bresson was born at Bromont-Lamothe, Puy-de-Dôme, the son of Marie-Élisabeth and Léon Bresson. Little is known of his early life and the year of his birth, 1901 or 1907, varies depending on the source. He was educated at Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, close to Paris, and...

's "L'Argent

L'Argent (1983 film)

L'Argent is a 1983 French drama film directed by Robert Bresson. It is loosely inspired by the first part of Leo Tolstoy's nouvelle The Forged Coupon. It was Bresson's last film. It earned its maker the Director's Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:A young man enters his father's study...

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Awards

The film has won several awards:

• Athens International Film Festival 2005: Best Screenplay
• Bergen International Film Festival
  Bergen International Film Festival
  The Bergen International Film Festival is a film festival held annually in October in Bergen, Norway since 2000, and is the largest film festival in the nation in number of films. The 11th edition of the festival in 2010 featured 150 films in the program, a new record...
  
   2005: Jury Award
• Göteborg Film Festival 2005: Nordic Film Prize
• Jussi
  Jussi
  The Jussi Award is an accolade to recognize excellence of professionals in the Finnish film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony is held at the beginning of each year, and it is the most important film industry event in Finland.The first Jussi Awards ceremony was...
  
   2006:
  • Best Costume Design
  • Best Direction
  • Best Editing
  • Best Film
  • Best Script
  • Best Sound Design
  • Best Supporting Actor
  • Best Supporting Actress
• Leeds International Film Festival
  Leeds International Film Festival
  The Leeds International Film Festival is the largest film festival in England outside London. Held in November at various venues throughout Leeds, West Yorkshire it shows over 200 films from around the world, commercial and independent....
  
   2005: Golden Owl Award
• Lübeck Nordic Film Days 2005: NDR Promotion Prize - Honorable Mention
• Moscow International Film Festival
  Moscow International Film Festival
  Moscow International Film Festival , is the film festival first held in Moscow in 1959. From its inception to 1995 it was held every second year in July, alternating with the Karlovy Vary festival. The festival has been held annually since 1995....
  
   2005: Special Jury Prize

Cast

• Jasper Pääkkönen
  Jasper Pääkkönen
  Jasper Pääkkönen is a Finnish film actor who has appeared and starred in over 15 films. According to a calculation published by Finnish tabloid IltaSanomat, Pääkkönen is "the most profitable film actor in Finland" for having starred in numerous box office hits during his career...
  
   as Niko Smolander
• Mikko Leppilampi
  Mikko Leppilampi
  Mikko Johannes Leppilampi is a Finnish actor and musician who is the son of Jukka Leppilampi , a Finnish gospel musician. Leppilampi is considered to be one of the most promising stars of Finland's movie industry in the new millennium...
  
   as Tuomas Mikael Saraste
• Pamela Tola
  Pamela Tola
  Pamela Tola is a Finnish actress.Tola was born in Ruotsinpyhtää, Finland. She has mostly appeared on television since 2003. She appeared in the 2005 film Paha maa , and starred as the main character in the 2006 film Saippuaprinssi , both times working with Mikko Leppilampi...
  
   as Elina Oravisto
• Petteri Summanen
  Petteri Summanen
  Petteri Summanen is a Finnish television actor and screen writer who has appeared in several films.Summanen has worked mainly as an actor on Finnish television since 1995 making 30 appearances to date although he did feature in the 2005 Aku Louhimies film Paha maa alongside actors such as Mikko...
  
   as Antti Arhamo
• Matleena Kuusniemi as Hannele Arhamo

• Mikko Kouki as Isto Virtanen
• Sulevi Peltola as Teuvo "Teukka" Hurskainen
• Pertti Sveholm as Pertti Smolander
• Samuli Edelmann as car seller "Jartsa" Matikainen
• Saara Pakkasvirta as shopkeeper's mother
• Pekka Valkeejärvi as shopkeeper
• Susanna Anteroinen as Headmaster
• Niklas Hellakoski as Konsta
• Emilia Suoperä as Maria, angel in the ambulance
• Jonathan Kajander as Joonatan "Jonttu" Arhamo