''Under Your Skin'' ( Finnish: ''Käpy selän alla'') is a 1966 Finnish film directed by

Mikko Niskanen Mikko Johannes Niskanen (31 January 1929 – 25 November 1990) was a Finnish film director, actor, producer and screenwriter. He directed more than 40 films between 1956 and 1988. His most acclaimed films include '' The Boys'' (1962), '' Un ...

and written by Marja-Leena Mikkola. It stars Kirsti Wallasvaara, Eero Melasniemi,

Kristiina Halkola Kristiina is an Estonian and Finnish feminine given name. It is a cognate of the English and French given name Christine. Tiina is often used as a diminutive of Kristiina. People named Kristiina include: * Kristiina Brask (born 1990), Finnish ...

and Pekka Autiovuori as four young adults who are camping in the woods. ''Under Your Skin'' was the highest-grossing film in Finland since '' The Unknown Soldier''. In addition, it won six

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Plot

Four young students, Riitta, Santtu, Leena and Timo, go camping on the shore of the lake. Riitta and Santtu flirt openly, while Leena is reserved about Timo's approach. During the trip, Leena and Santtu discuss life in depth and Santtu believes that he can help Leena to liberate herself sexually. Leena and Santtu make love in the forest, which causes conflicts.

Cast

as Riitta * Kirsti Wallasvaara as Leena * Pekka Autiovuori as Timo * Eero Melasniemi as Santtu *

Anneli Sauli Anneli Sauli (born Anneli Helena Savolainen; 6 August 1932 Pyhäjoki, Finland – 15 March 2022 Helsinki, Finland) was a renowned Finnish actress whose career spanned nearly seven decades and included more than 40 films, as well as significant w ...

as a film star * Kasperi Manninen as Kasperi Lauhanen * Alma Manninen as Alma Lauhanen *

Jukka Sipilä Jukka Sipilä (12 May 1936, Kivijärvi – 7 August 2004, Helsinki, Finland) was a prolific Finnish actor and television director. He began acting in film in the 1960s and took up TV directing shortly in the early 1970s before concentrating on a ...

as Janne Lauhanen The performers in the film include, among others, the Finnish rock band with vocalist

Kirka Babitzin Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin (Russian '' Кирилл Бабицын'', 22 September 1950 – 31 January 2007) was a Finnish vocalist and musician. One of the most commercially successful artists from Finland, his career lasted from the late 1960s u ...

. Director Mikko Niskanen makes also a

cameo role A cameo appearance, also called a cameo role and often shortened to just cameo (), is a brief guest appearance of a well-known person or character in a work of the performing arts. These roles are generally small, many of them non-speaking one ...

as a man asking Leena to dance.

References

External links

* {{Finland-film-stub Finnish black-and-white films 1960s coming-of-age drama films 1966 films Films about camping Films about sexuality 1960s Finnish films