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| Directed by | Aku Louhimies |
| Produced by | Markus Selin |
| Written by | Aku Louhimies |
| Starring | Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko Leppilampi, Pamela Tola |
| Cinematography | Rauno Ronkainen |
| Editing by | Samu Heikkilä |
| Release date(s) | 2005 |
| Running time | 130 min |
| Language | Finnish |
Frozen Land (Finnish: Paha maa) is a 2005 critically acclaimed dark Finnish film drama directed and written by Aku Louhimies starring Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko Leppilampi and Pamela Tola.
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When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.
The film plot is based on (but not credited)[1] on Leo Tolstoy's "The Forged Coupon" part 1 like Robert Bresson's "L'Argent".
The film has won several awards:
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