''Pater Noster'' (also known as ''Our Father...''; fi, Isä meidän) is a 1993

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written and directed by

Veikko Aaltonen Veikko Aaltonen (born 1 December 1955 in Sääksmäki, Finland) is a Finnish director, editor, sound editor, production manager and film and television writer and actor. Aaltonen began his career in the mid-1970s working as a sound editor on v ...

. It tells the story of a young man returning to his childhood home, who decides to face painful memories related to his formerly abusive but today demented father. The film stars

Hannu Kivioja Hannu Kivioja (born 30 June 1963) is a Finnish actor. Kivioja was born in Ylivieska. Originally he tried for the Helsinki Theatre Academy for the first time in 1985, but did not get in at that time. He was discovered by Rauni Mollberg, who gave ...

Martti Katajisto Martti Viljami Katajisto (6 December 1926 – 25 January 2000) was a Finnish actor. He is best remembered as a young and angry man Nokia in a film ''Ihmiset suviyössä'' (1948). For this role, he received a Jussi Award as the best actor in a lea ...

and Elina Hurme. In 1994, the film received three

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: Hannu Kivioja for

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, Veikko Aaltonen for

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and

Olavi Tuomi Matti Olavi "Ola" Tuomi (22 May 1932 – 14 November 2006) was a Finnish cinematographer, chief lighting technician and actor. Tuomi started to work for Suomen Filmiteollisuus at the age of 15. His first major work was being one of the cinematograp ...

for best cinematography. In the same year, Aaltonen won the FIPRESCI Prize at the

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and the Young Audience Awards at the

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with his film. The film has also been shown at the

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Plot

Juhani (

) returns to his childhood home in the countryside after spending several years at sea. He warms up the cold house under whose roof his childhood memories come alive. Because of this, Juhani decides to picks up his demented, wheelchair-bound father (

) from the nursing home and starts living with him. However, Juhani's childhood memories, presented in fragments, torment him, and it gradually becomes clear that his father once

sexually abused Sexual abuse or sex abuse, also referred to as molestation, is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another. It is often perpetrated using force or by taking advantage of another. Molestation often refers to an instance of sexual assau ...

him. Juhani has to go through many different emotional states to try to find out if he ever can forgive his father for what he has done to him, and if he can ever leave his painful past behind.

Cast

as Juhani Haavisto ** Antti Mattila as young Juhani *

as Eino Haavisto **

Matti Onnismaa Matti may refer to: * Matti (given name), people with the given name * Matti (surname), people with the surname * Matti, Karnataka, a village in India * '' Matti: Hell Is for Heroes'', a 2006 film about Matti Nykänen See also * Masa (disambigu ...

as young Eino * Elina Hurme as Marja Rantanen * Heikki Kujanpää as Aarne Armas 'Arska' Rantanen * Aino Aaltonen as Aino Rantanen *

Kosti Klemelä Kosti Klemelä (29 February 1920 – 26 March 2006) was a Finnish actor. He is best remembered for playing the role of Lt. Koskela in the Edvin Laine film ''The Unknown Soldier (1955 film), The Unknown Soldier'' (1955). In addition to his film car ...

as old man * Vieno Saaristo as school teacher * Elli Castrén as nurse

References

External links

* * 1993 films Films about child sexual abuse Films set in Finland Films set on farms Films shot in Finland Finnish black-and-white films Finnish drama films Films about incest {{Finland-film-stub