Review: Myyrä

AT THE PACE OF THE FIRST LINE

Based on Jari Tervo’s bestselling novel, Sami
Keski-Vähälä’s superbly dramatised Mole opens
recent history by mixing just the right amount of facts and a little
fiction. Tervo has said that he describes in his book
love and power – which you often don’t want to separate
about sex and violence.
Book for the unreadable: It’s about
a story in which we live in Kekkonen’s Finland during the Soviet Union’s
next door. It is a time when the gentlemen of Brussels
We didn’t know anything, but we tried to know about our eastern neighbour as well
more.

Milko Lehto’s direction is successfully quick and light-hearted, curiously
observant. It’s easy to keep up with time and place – thanks to clever people
set design solutions and video technology – but there are also surprises
Yes. The audience is also entertained with inventive supporting roles (Tiina
Finnish interpreter with Pirhonen’s hand signals), hilarious
entrances (Pertti Koivula as the magnificent-minded Stalin)
and surprise numbers (diving assistants in the fishing scene).

Antti Litja as the Kekkonen of the end times respects his target appropriately.
He is clearly a tough and wise statesman, even though in a wandering
The comical fumbling of a tired old man is already in his mind.
One of the best premieres of the autumn, a tantalizing recent past.