Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock'n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician.
Matti Kinnunen
Director
Outi Rousu
Producer
Markku Flink
Producer
Fredrik Viklund
Original Music Composer
Matti Kinnunen
Screenplay
Peter Flinckenberg
Director of Photography
Mikko Neuvonen
Välde
Sanni Kurkisuo
Pike
Elias Gould
Sasu
Pirkko Hämäläinen
Mother
P.K. Keränen
Ana
Maria Ylipää
Kara
Olavi Uusivirta
Karhila
Juha Kukkonen
Sasun isä
Ville Myllyrinne
Heikinoja
Milja Nieminen
Katja, Piken sisko
Misa Lommi
Anki
Mikko Virtanen
Partanen, "Kaitsu", "Partsu"
