The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.
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Mikko Leppilampi as Saku
Antti Luusuaniemi as Ässä
Pihla Viitala as Anna
Malla Malmivaara as Rita
Hennariikka Laaksola as Vilma
Ville Tiihonen as Alex
Leo Sjöman as Stefan, "Stefu"
Eero Ritala as Panu
Sonya Lindfors as Eerika
Juuso Syrjä as Pate
Nelly Kärkkäinen as Miia
Kalle Salonen as Patrick
Ada Kukkonen as Mira
Pia Andersson as Sari Möttölä, "Cheryl Lamour"
Milka Ahlroth as Arja
Elias Lahtinen as Pikku-Saku
Nooa Poropudas as Pikku-Ässä
Marja Hintikka as Naistoimittaja
Heli Kajo as Televisiotoimittaja
Mike Pohjola as Goottikundi
Oskari Sipola as Nörttikundi
Tuulikki Heinonen as Sauvakävelijämummeli
Heikki Paasonen as Self
Melli Maikkula as Vegaanimimmi
Antti Pesonen as Rapajuoppo
Jesse Fryckman as Polttarivieras
Jaajo Linnonmaa as Polttarivieras
Suvi Pitkänen as Babes DJ
Niina Hämäläinen as Babes DJ
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