Frozen Land cover art

Frozen Land Details

2005 Certificate 18
  • Rated:
  • 60
  • from 1333 members

Set against the backdrop of an iced-over contemporary Helsinki, and based on Leo Tolstoy's False Note, Frozen Land takes you on a journey through a strikingly bleak and occasionally blackly funny landscape. Set in motion by the printing of a forged 500 euro note, the film bounces between the lives of a pair of young computer .. Read more

Starring Jasper Paakkonen, Mikko Leppilampi, Pamela Tola, Petteri Summanen
Director Aku Louhimies
Genres Drama

loading loading...

Frozen Land

Set against the backdrop of an iced-over contemporary Helsinki, and based on Leo Tolstoy's False Note, Frozen Land takes you on a journey through a strikingly bleak and occasionally blackly funny landscape. Set in motion by the printing of a forged 500 euro note, the film bounces between the lives of a pair of young computer hackers, a depressed policewoman, a mullet-haired car thief and a vacuum salesman and recovering alcoholic, who falls off the wagon with a vengeance.

Starring Jasper Paakkonen, Mikko Leppilampi, Pamela Tola, Petteri Summanen, Matleena Kuusniemi
Director Aku Louhimies
Studio ICA FILMS
Run time DVD: 1 hr 57 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Drama
Language DVD: Finnish
Subtitles DVD: English
Released DVD: 14 May 2007
Production year: 2005
Format DVD
  • Most helpful member's review of Frozen Land

    View all
  • 33 out of 34 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Grim with a grin

    Imagine the most depressing winter you will never experience: grey instead of white, no snowfights and certainly no wonderlands. This is the Finland as portrayed by 'Frozen Land'. With no apologies, this film follows a bunch of people whose lives are oddly linked to each others' with results beyond anyone's nightmares. Yes, most characters are flawed in the way that only celluloid characters can - completely annoying and frustrating to watch, yet for some reason you wish for their luck to turn miraculously. With some randomly placed humour and a cast that groups together Finland's somewhat mainstream faces, Frozen Land offers a glimpse of the Finnish mentality that despite its depressing downward spirals manages to restore some faith in humanity. More so than Kaurismäki, to say the least.

    • Tiina
      • Tiina from London
  • Most recent members' review of Frozen Land

    View all
  • 3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Very Different...

    Fantastic film with very good story line..

      • Raja from High Wycombe
  • More like this

    View all

Rating breakdown

1,333 Member ratings
  • 100
77
  • 90
62
  • 80
217
  • 70
212
  • 60
275
  • 50
133
  • 40
134
  • 30
71
  • 20
99
  • 10
53

Buy from the LOVEFiLM shop


    • Frozen Land
    • DVD: £7.93
      Free Delivery
    • RRP £19.79 (you save: 60%)
    • Set against the backdrop of an iced-over contemporary Helsinki, and based on Leo Tolstoy's False Note, Frozen Land takes you on a journey through a strikingly bleak and occasionally blackly funny ...