Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa ei

APPROPIATE

1975 / 103min.

Rating5.7

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Synopsis

Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers.

Directors

Actors

Jukka Sipilä

Antti Litja

Kirsti Wallasvaara

Matti Ruohola

Similar

Don't Think About It

Having faced the reality of his failed career as a punk rock musician, 36-year-old Stefano Nardini returns home to his family in the small-town North.

2007

6.6

Desire Me

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

1947

5.7

The Return of the Native

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to enti

1994

6.4

Mother

A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.

1996

6.6

Back Again

Alex returns to his village with Jordi, after a while, in order to celebrate San Juan night. However, due to a summer storm, they have to shelter in a

2015

5.1

The Return of a Merry Fellow

First narrative polish film. The janitor sweeps the pavement in front of the tenement house. A carriage comes with a rather solidly inserted young man

1902

7.0

Our Christmas Love Song

When country star Melody Jones is accused of plagiarizing her holiday single, she returns home to spend Christmas with her estranged family and old fl

2019

6.1

Ballad of a Soldier

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the bat

1959

8.0

Red Rocket

Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, former porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estran

2021

6.8

Medicine River

A man returns to his home town after a long absence. Based on the book by Thomas King.

1993

6.0

Remember the Night

When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blo

1940

7.4

Most Likely to Murder

Billy, the coolest kid in high school, comes back to his hometown 15 years later to find he’s no longer cool and the girl he still has feelings for no

2018

5.7

Other People

David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Livin

2016

6.3

Your Mother Should Know

A young photographer moves back in with his mother and has to adjust to his old hometown. Things get more challenging when she appoints him as her dat

2018

6.8

The Man Who Returned from the Heat

Loukas has been living in Africa for many many years, working hard to send money to his family who has stayed in Greece. When the time has come to ret

1972

5.4

To Each Your Sarah

The film portrays the anguish of an abandoned person and yet focuses on the process in which she grows more conscious of her true self. As she handles

2019

0.0

The Goodbye Kiss

Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about the fall of

2006

6.8

Homeland

Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a small village in Fukushima Prefecture. The entire vil

2014

5.7