A Time of Roses

1969 [FINNISH]

Drama / Sci-Fi

3
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 362 362

Plot summary

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.

Director

Risto Jarva Photo
Risto Jarva

Top cast

Unto Salminen Photo
Unto Salminen as Saara's Ex-Husband
Paavo Jännes Photo
Paavo Jännes as Saara's Youth-Time Lover
Tarja Markus Photo
Tarja Markus as Anu Huotari
Ilkka Vanne Photo
Ilkka Vanne
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
966.27 MB
1260*720
Finnish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 45 min
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1.75 GB
1890*1080
Finnish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lor_

Thoughtful sci-fi from a great, unsung filmmaker

Reviewed by ricardojorgeramalho 7 / 10

Democratic Roses and Thorns

A surprising Finnish film from the end of the 60s, which proposes, in a science fiction environment that could have inspired Woody Allen's Sleeper, a reflection on the concept of democracy and the utopias it gave rise to, which kept the world divided and suspended at the time of the Cold War, which nevertheless caused episodes of enormous violence, permanently threatening the world with the total destruction of humanity.The conclusion seems to be that totalitarian democracy annihilates the individual, and that only the imperfection of the democratic social struggle guarantees individual freedom, even if it generates violence and social confrontation.However, totalitarianism inevitably imposes itself on the annihilation of the individual in the face of the collective interest.An interesting reflection that well reflects the ambiguity of political thought at the time, which is still relevant, even in current times, when the Cold War has become history.What is democracy after all? Are these regimes, in which we currently live, truly democratic?Doesn't the ghost of totalitarianism remain suspended, waiting for the bankruptcy of social democracies, victors of the cold war?
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