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The Matriarch (2007)

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.

Release: 2007-09-14
Runtime: 95 min
Rating: 6.4 / 10
Cast
Peter Franzén
Peter Franzén
Laszlo
Sanna-Kaisa Palo
Sanna-Kaisa Palo
Martta
Samuli Vauramo
Samuli Vauramo
Kasper
Jenni Banerjee
Jenni Banerjee
Lara
Heikki Kinnunen
Heikki Kinnunen
Niccolo / Otto
Heikki Hela
Heikki Hela
Mojo
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Mika Nuojua
Ruippa
Janne Reinikainen
Janne Reinikainen
Lutku
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Ismo Apell
Jali Nappi
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Puntti Valtonen
Jori
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Emma Piitulainen
Anna
Elina Knihtilä
Elina Knihtilä
Roosa
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Lotta Lehtikari
Veera
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Kaarina Turunen
Hullu-Helena
Toni Wahlström
Toni Wahlström
Ventti
Tuomas Uusitalo
Tuomas Uusitalo
Hippo
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Tatu Siivonen
Repe