The Matriarch

The Matriarch(2007)

September 14, 2007
1h 35m
IMDb5.5790
TMDB6.414

Overview

Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo, Repe and equally silly son-in-law Ventti. The family occasionally turns to crime when they can't quite make ends meet, and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business. Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kaspar, who becomes the family's sidekick in their travels. Despite Kaspar's inability to speak, he attracts Martha's youngest daughter, an attractive young woman named Lara, but the family is in disarray when a long-lost half-brother, Laszlo, suddenly re-emerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother.

Cast

Crew

Executive Producer

Satu Sadinkangas

Director of Photography

Jan Nyman

Box Office

Budget

$1.4M

Revenue

$435K

Profit

$-965000

Details

Original Title

Lieksa!

Original Language

fi

Country

Finland

Production

Suomen Filmiteollisuus SF

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