Hellsinki

Hellsinki

Happiness, jail or the grave?

2009 · 136 min · ★ 6.4 · Crime, Drama

In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.

Directed by Aleksi Mäkelä · Written by Marko Leino

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