Crazy Finland
- IMDb link: 0062165
- IMDb rating: 6.1 (518 votes)
- Genres: Comedy
- Director: Jukka Virtanen
- Cast: Esko Salminen, Simo Salminen, Leo Jokela, Spede Pasanen and others
- Release date: 25 Aug 1967
- Release year: 1967
- Runtime: 84 minutes
- Country: Finland
- Keywords: sauna, lapland, finnish american, millionaire, film in film, filmmaking, advertising
Plot:
Losing faith in their original idea for a movie to celebrate Finland's 50 years of independence, a film crew decides to hire a typical Finnish taxpayer to tell them what to shoot. The result becomes a comedic cavalcade of Finnish promotional cliches - Lapland, sauna, moose hunting, beautiful blond women etc. - as presented by a slick entourage following on the heels of William Nurmi, a Finnish-American hair tonic millionaire on a visit to his ancestors' homeland. Add some half-baked criminal hanky-panky, and towards the end even one of the main characters has to confess to the camera that he's lost track of this movie's plot about fifteen minutes ago.