The Year of the Hare (1977)
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life
- Release Date: 1977-12-23
- Runtime: 2h 9min
- Production Company: Filminor
- Production Country: Finland
- Director: Risto Jarva
- Writers: Kullervo Kukkasjärvi, Arto Paasilinna, Risto Jarva.
