주인공 카스리넨은 광부다. 일하던 탄광이 폐광이 되며 도산을 하고 사장은 유일하게 남은 것은 권총과 승용차 한대. 차 키를 카스리넨에게 주고 자신은 권콩으로 자살을 한다. 실업자가 되어 달랑 차 한 대만 끌고 도시로 온 그는 주차 단속을 하던 필라야와 너무 쉽게 잠을 자고 곧 동거를 시작하는데 그들의 필요 충분 조건은 사랑뿐 이었을 뿐이다. 그녀에겐 딸린 아들도 있다. 가진 것 없고 사랑만 있는 이들 앞엔 역경만 닥쳐오고 결국 갖은 우여곡절 끝에 그들은 현실을 도피해 밀항선을 타고 꿈의 땅 아리엘로 떠난다.
A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom.
Gravity researcher Erik Rankamaa dies in his prime in 1970. He is been deep frozen and gets defrosted in 1999, while people of his time are still alive.
Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.
