The Year of the Hare
A man – with the help of a hare – realises what’s important in life.
Young advertising executive Vatanen 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.
Filmography:
(valik/selected): Yö vai päivä (Night Or Day, 1962, co-dir), Onnenpeli (1965), Työmiehen päiväkirja (A Worker's Diary, 1967), Ruusujen aika (A Time of Roses, 1969), Kun taivas putoaa... (1972), Yhden miehen sota (One Man's War, 1973), Loma (1976), Jäniksen vuosi (1977)