Milka – A Film About Taboos

Milka – A Film About Taboos (Finnish: Milka – elokuva tabuista) is a 1980 Finnish drama film directed by Rauni Mollberg. It was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Milka – A Film About Taboos
Directed byRauni Mollberg
Written byRauni Mollberg
Timo K. Mukka
Produced byRauni Mollberg
StarringIrma Huntus
CinematographyMarkku Lehmuskallio
Edited byTuula Mehtonen
Release date
  • 19 December 1980 (1980-12-19)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFinland
LanguageFinnish

Plot

Milka is a 14-year-old girl who lives with her mother in a tiny isolated community in Northern Finland. The girl misses her dead father and prays God to show her what love is. The mother employs a man nicknamed Christ-Devil to help in the hay making. He stays in the house and courts both the mother and daughter. Later he vanishes unexpectedly, and the mother, who wished to marry him, notices that Milka is pregnant by him.

Cast
  • Irma Huntus as Milka Sierkkiniemi
  • Leena Suomu as Anna Sierkkiniemi
  • Matti Turunen as Ojanen, 'Kristus-Perkele'
  • Eikka Lehtonen as Cantor Malmström
  • Esa Niemelä as Auno Laanila
  • Hellin Auvinen-Salmi as Villager
  • Sirkka Metsäsaari as Mother Laanila
  • Ulla Tapaninen as Ojanen's woman friend
  • Toivo Tuomainen as Villager
  • Tauno Lehtihalmes as Dean

Production

Director Rauni Mollberg used amateurs. Irma Huntus, a 17-year-old school girl, was cast in the title role. She had several naked scenes. These shots confused her life in the small village where she returned after the filming was over. Helena Ylänen wrote in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, that Mollberg had "unleashed his fascination with the white naked human flesh. He makes a number of excuses to undress people, in particular the undeveloped girl's body of Milka."[2]

References
  1. "IMDB.com: Awards for Milka – A Film About Taboos". imdb.com. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  2. "Timo K. Mukka (1944-1973)". authorscalendar.info. Retrieved 30 January 2022.


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