''Let Not One Devil Cross the Bridge'' () is a 1968 Finnish

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directed by

Matti Kassila Matti Kassila (12 January 1924 – 13 December 2018) was a Finnish film director who achieved fame as one of the most prominent Finnish filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s. He is most famous for the series of four Inspector Palmu movies, based on t ...

. The film is an ensemble divided into three independent stories, based on the ideas of the actual frame story, where the people who took part in the film design meeting during the get-together held at evening. The film is starring Maija Karhi, Pentti Siimes, Helge Herala and Toivo Mäkelä. Director Kassila returned to film directing after a five-year hiatus. The film was completed at a time when

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had begun to take audiences away from cinemas, which is why Kassila wanted to use this film to comment on the crisis in the Finnish film industry. The film's audience success was the weakest in 1968, even though it was effectively marketed, and it made big losses, making it the

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. In the television show ''Kinoklubi'', where directors Matti Kassila and Markku Pölönen and producer Markus Selin listed their own failed films and the reasons for the failure, Kassila considered ''Let Not One Devil Cross the Bridge'' to be one of his worst films ever made.Ylen Elävä Arkisto.
(in Finnish)

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* 1968 films Finnish black-and-white films 1960s Finnish-language films 1960s Finnish films Films directed by Matti Kassila Finnish comedy films Anthology films 1968 comedy films Finnish-language comedy films {{1960s-comedy-film-stub