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Fiction | 2008 |
Digibeta | 16:9 anamorphic |
Dolby stereo | 55’
Director: Auli Mantila
Script: Laura Ruohonen
Cinematography: Jussi Eerola
Editing: Harri Ylönen
Sound design: Kyösti Väntänen
Music: Antti Lehtinen
Costumes: Sari Suominen
Cast: Seela Sella, Leea Klemola,
Aaro Wichmann
Executive Producer: Auli Mantila
Line Producer: Anu Hukka
Production company: Do Films Oy
Production support:
The Finnish Film Foundation
Financing TV company:
YLE Co-productions
Yksinen
An architect and an ophthalmologist – who has commissioned a house from the architect – begin
a heated argument on an uninhabited islet, right where the fancy new house is supposed to be
built. The honourable, sharp-tongued, and heavily smoking ophthalmologist scolds the young,
self-conscious, and ambitious architect, who consequently wants to go home right away. And then
the outboard motor breaks down. Yksinen is an intelligent situation comedy about how a modern
man survives when all the technology he depends on suddenly fails. It examines big choices in
life hilariously, practically, and cruelly. Yksinen is a story about the impossibility of togetherness,
but also about how close another human being, a fellow creature, really is – right now.
Auli Mantila
Auli Mantila (born 1964) graduated as
a film director and screenwriter in 1995.
Since then, she has worked in her field of
training. Now, in 2008, having directed three
feature films and some TV series, and having
worked as a producer and teacher of
directing, she finally dares to say that filmmaking
and solving questions related to it
is the thing she knows best.
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