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In this movie old Finnish agrarian culture, 1970's merging standard of living and Finnish male maddness come together. Film would be impossible to make in modern times. Basis of the film is to rob a sheep and eat it. Wrong in so many levels today and even 1970's. Making of this film was also reason for filmcrew to go to rural Finland and drink a lot of vodka every day of the summer. Still film tells something from old times in Finland when fishing and hunting were everyday work and trouble at he outside world did not really matter. You could rob a lamb and do fine when there was a bit vodka and summer sun was shining. I would guess that motives of the film would be hard to understand, if you are not from Finland. Actors playing main caracters were leading Finnish male comedian actors of the 1970's.

Valtteri and Sepe are two city buddies who go into the woods to hunt and eat some sheep.Lampaansyöjät (1972) is directed by Seppo Huunonen.I read the 1970 novel by Veikko Huovinen a little before I saw this movie.Both are quite funny and a little tragicomic telling a tale of friendship between two Finns.Leo Lastumäki and Heikki Kinnunen as Valtteri and Sepe are excellent.Those two have paired many times, mostly doing TV comedy, and it's always a lot of fun to watch them together.Rose-Marie Precht plays Head Waitress.Jukka Sipilä is Farmer.Raili Veivo is Boarding House Hostess.The movie is quite hilarious from time to time.Like when those two are in a sinking boat.Or the German ladies who are offered some food called Rosvon paisti.It's quite grotesque and funny to watch when Sepe handles the dead sheep.This movie contains a lot of booze drinking, which is very Finnish.I don't drink myself, but it can be sometimes funny to watch that happening in a movie.I recommend both the book and the movie to be read and seen.