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1964 in film

The year 1964 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released....

 Finnish comedy and the debut of Spede Pasanen

Spede Pasanen

Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, humorist, inventor, TV personality and practitioner of gags....

 as a leading male role and debut as a co-director of a full-length film. Similarly to the later Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit

Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit

Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit is a 1979 comedy directed, written and starring Spede Pasanen, along with the typical comic-cast of Simo Salminen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Tapio Hämäläinen and Olavi Ahonen....

Pasanen plays a dual-role.

Plot summary

The plot concerns a wealthy baron (Pasanen), who is so interested in foreign cultures (particularly Native American), that he is oblivious that people within his own organization are using him to fund a local mafia. While visiting the country-side the baron is mistaken for a lazy but inventive farmer (also Pasanen) who looks exactly like him and the two switch roles by accident. While the reserved baron manages to charm the simple people of the country-side his lookalike cracks down on the corruption within the barons business-monopoly (often spoken of but never elaborated). This eventually leads the mob to attempt to assassinate the baron who then flees to the country-side after learning that he has a doppelganger there as well.

The film features many of the trade-marks of Spede's comedies, such as elaborate if somewhat vague settings, gadgetry and stock-characters like the mobsters, the bungling crook (portrayed by Spede's regular Simo Salminen) and a butler named James.