Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut
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| Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut | |
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| Directed by | Ere Kokkonen |
| Produced by | Spede Pasanen |
| Written by | Spede Pasanen, Jukka Virtanen, Ere Kokkonen |
| Starring | Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Simo Salminen, Juha Jokela |
| Distributed by | Filmituotanto Spede Pasanen Ky |
| Release date(s) | 1969 |
| Running time | 1h 27min |
| Language | Finnish |
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Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut is a 1969 Finnish comedy by Spede Pasanen. It features one of the most famous appearances by Vesa-Matti Loiri outside his Uuno Turhapuro persona also created by Pasanen. The film also features a famous cameo of the Finnish pop-star Danny.
[edit] Plot
The plot concerns the character of Mikko Syvärivi (Pasanen) who works as a night-watchman and also becomes an assistant at a Finnish Television Company. His first day at work starts out quite humorously as he is mistaken as the prime-minister by an urging reporter Antti Vasa (Loiri) who takes him to a live TV-interview. Unfortunately due to the incident Vasa is demoted in to reporting on indifferent news-items with a minimal news-crew and often allowed to ask one question.
Mikko on the other hand is also an urging writer who tries his luck comprising a comedy-show and even a police-drama. After catching Vasa breaking in to a store in the middle of the night (in the hopes of covering the actions of the local police) he decides to help Vasa with his reports eventually getting him back on the show where started out.
Mikko also tries to impress a girl at the cafeteria and is even offered to stay at her (all girl) dormitory.
At the latter half of the movie Vasa turns Mikko's bumbling in to a hit comedy-act which comprises him of injuring himself on various types of doors. The fame naturally gets to him in the end and ruins his relationship with the cafeteria girl. He also sabotages his own success by going on stage with a new gag which is met with a chilling silence as the audience leaves. Mikko then goes back to being just an assistant but seems content with the outcome by the end of the film.
[edit] The name
Correctly translated the title of the film should be The Amazing Hesitations of the TV-man. Näköradio (vision radio) is an outdated expression for television. Siekailut comes from siekailla, an old word meaning to hesitate and which sounds a lot like seikkailu, meaning adventure.
This is one of many examples of bizarre naming conventions practiced with most of Spede's films.
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