
Chocolat(2000)
In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.



Sakari Kuosmanen
Juha

Kati Outinen
Marja

André Wilms
Shemeikka

Elina Salo
Shemeikka's Sister

Markku Peltola
Driver

Esko Nikkari
Police Chief

Ona Kamu
Shemeikka's Woman

Outi Mäenpää
Shemeikka's Woman
Tuire Tuomisto
Shemeikka's Woman
Tatjana Solovjova
Dancer
Juha is a comedy, drama, romance film released in 1999 exploring themes of based on novel or book. Directed by Aki Kaurismäki, it stars Sakari Kuosmanen, Kati Outinen, André Wilms. A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
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