Description
Fuck Off! Images of Finland shows no false respect towards the authorities in its impudent and candid reportage of the developing country/welfare state Finland. It is a cinematic parallel to Donner’s new Book of Our Land (1967). The travelogue focuses especially on Finland’s outsiders, low-paid workers and the unemployed. In desolate provinces, the inhabitants of a cold and barren country either humbly abide their fate, choose to move to Sweden or take refuge in excessive drinking. These images are accompanied by protest songs based on Donner’s own prose and the lyrics of poet Jarkko Laine.