The Well
|Kaivo
Status: Released
Runtime: 108
Release Date: 29/09/1992
Origin Language: fi
Origin Country: FI
Languages: Finnish
Production: KinofinlandiaMetronome ProductionsFilmTeknik
Countries: DenmarkFinlandSweden
Budget: 550000
Revenue: 0 (-550000)
This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.
