The Manila Rope

The Manila Rope (1976)

Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.

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  • Release Date: 1976-09-28
  • Runtime: 1h 15min
  • Director: Veli-Matti Saikkonen

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Cast

  • Erkki Pajala

    Joose Keppilä

  • Vesa Mäkelä

    Fiksu

  • Martti Kuningas

    Iso

  • Esko Hukkanen

    Vääpeli

  • Hannu Kahakorpi

    Seonnut alikersantti

  • Iris-Lilja Lassila

    Sylvia

  • Yrjö Parjanne

    Eversti

  • Harri Tirkkonen

    Lääkäri

  • Leila Itkonen

    Elviira

  • Heikki Nousiainen

    Korpraali

  • Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

    Sotapoliisi

  • Mikko Nousiainen

    Keittiömies

  • Kari Franck

    Hullu katolla

  • Henri Kapulainen

    Soittajan kaveri

  • Asko Sarkola

    Sotapoliisi

  • Martti Kainulainen

    Asemamies

  • Matti Tapio

    Saksalainen vääpeli

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