The Kidnapping of a President (2026)

6.5/10 • 87 min • Comedy Drama History

Overview

In October 1930, a group of officers belonging to the Finnish army's top leadership decided, after a night of drinking, to kidnap Finland's retired first president, Ståhlberg. The Finnish people were divided in the aftermath of the civil war, and the political atmosphere was turbulent and tense. However, the kidnapping went wrong right from the start when the incompetent henchmen recruited for the job were forced to take the president's stubborn wife, Ester Ståhlberg, with them.

Cast

Jussi Vatanen

Jaeger colonel Eero Kuussaari

Aku Sipola

Colonel Kurt Wallenius

Pertti Sveholm

President Ståhlberg

Riitta Havukainen

Ester Ståhlberg

Elias Salonen

Jukka Janné

Alvari Stenbäck

Erkki Varoma

Alex Paul Pukk

Sven Semenius

Pääru Oja

Colonel Viklund

Akseli Kouki

Colonel Inkala

Tom Rejström

Colonel Jarvinen

Elsa Saisio

Marjatta

Karolína Růžičková

Sihteeri

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