Eight Deadly Shots
Eight Deadly Shots

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Eight Deadly Shots

Criterion Channel
Criterion Channel
7.7(19 votes)
1972
2h 25m
Drama
based on true storyalcoholismmurderminiseriespovertyunemploymentmoonshinefinland1960srural life

Overview

Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.

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