''Pirtua, pirtua'' is a 1991 Finnish drama movie directed by

Visa Mäkinen Visa Mäkinen (born 28 March 1945 in Pori, Finland) is a Finnish film director, film producer, actor and screen writer. He has directed and produced films such as the 1983 James Bond spoof '' Agent 000 and the Deadly Curves'' which featured ...

. The plot consists of a young man fighting against

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in his home village during Finnish prohibition. The movie, which was Visa Mäkinen's first attempt at a serious movie, ended up a box office flop, with only 1,650 tickets sold and caused losses of a million

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. Mäkinen gave up on making movies as a result. When ''Pirtua, Pirtua'' aired on the Finnish television channel

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in May 1995, it was seen by 287,000 viewers. In June 2001, another 180,000 television viewers saw the movie.

Critical reception

In the movie guide ''Video-opas'' in 1994, critic Olavi Similä praises the depiction of the subject matter, but finds the content mediocre, giving the movie a grade of two starts out of five.

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* 1991 films Finnish crime drama films 1991 crime thriller films Finnish thriller films 1990s Finnish-language films {{finland-film-stub