Portraits of Women

Portraits of Women

1970 · 90 min · ★ 5.0 · Comedy, Drama

Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.

Directed by Jörn Donner · Written by Jörn Donner

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