Matti

Jan 13 2006 N/A 2h 15m
Biography, Comedy, Drama

Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.

Plot

A ski jumper descends from winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with allegations of domestic violence are fictionalized sympathetically in this dramedy. Alleged exploitation/manipulation of Matti, due to his naivety and gullibility, along with deterioration of his skiing ability due to heavy drinking and bad decisions is emphasized. Many Matti malapropisms a la Yogi Berra, attributed to the Finnish skiing legend, are employed as biopic comic dialogue.

Written by

Marko Leino

Directed by

Aleksi Mäkelä

Cast

Jasper Pääkkönen, Elina Hietala, Juha Veijonen

Crew

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Production Countries

Finland

Production Companies

Solar Films

Languages

suomi

Awards

3 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
4,403
Average Rating
5.9 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA