Yrittäjä

Mar 23 2018 N/A 1h 14m
Documentary

Entrepreneur is a universal nature documentary about Finnish entrepreneurs. This warm and carnevalistic film portrays humans in the middle of ordinary everyday survival. The main protagonists come from two totally different kinds of landscapes, from two diffent time zones. There is a scenery of contemporary modern society and just a few hundred kilometres away we find a rural and nostalgic universe with forgotten people and land.Our first protagonists are Fellini-like family, going from village to another, trying to sell meat from a small meat truck and also run a tiny funfair business. The father, the mother and their four children are working together and trusting only in themselves, not in the help of society. While countryside family is counting coins, the other pair of entrepreneurs, the two well-educated women from the capital area, have invented a vegetable protein product called Pulled Oat, and have become millionaires. But have they also made a world a little bit better?

Plot

Smart, fine-honed and visually beautiful documentary on two sets of entrepreneurs in Finland. Name of the movie translates to "entrepreneur", but etymologically "yrittäjä" stems from the verb "try". There are two stories here: in the first one two women are establishing a business around their food invention, pulled oats; in the other we follow a family business that runs a small carnival and a meats stand. Both are tough jobs, but in very different ways, and require a lot of "trying".The director, Virpi Suutari, is in absolute control of her near-geometrical, idiosyncratic style. Reportedly, "Yrittäjä" was in production for four years, and it shows. This is not just a report but a full-blown movie, carefully directed. You sense this already from the outstanding opening shot beginning in darkness; and the closing shot bookends the movie in a thought-out way. Regarding the tech aspects, "Yrittäjä" is a first-class project with Sanna Salmenkallio's music a particular stand-out. The result is a multi-layered examination on the main topic, but also on family, recession, hardships and victories, at least small ones.

Written by

Virpi Suutari

Directed by

Virpi Suutari

Cast

Jani Laine, Satu Laine, Amanda Laine

Crew

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Production Countries

Finland

Production Companies

Oktober

Languages

suomi, English

Awards

5 wins & 2 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
104
Average Rating
6.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA