Matti: Hell Is for Heroes

Matti: Hell Is for Heroes

2006 · 141 min · ★ 5.5 · Drama, Comedy

Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.

Directed by Aleksi Mäkelä · Written by Marko Leino

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