A Respectable Tragedy

Overview

In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people.

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Cast

Ville Virtanen

Tauno Saarinen

Päivi Akonpelto

Elisabeth Saarinen

Henriikka Salo

Naimi Saarinen

Kyllikki Forssell

Ada, Arturs mother

Timo Jurkka

Artur, Naimi's ex-husband

Saara Hilpinen

Tellervo Nurmi

Maria Järvenhelmi

Jenny

Ossi Lehtinen

Pekka Saarinen

Mari Rantasila

Adan piika

Kati Outinen

Midwife