Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
- IMDb link: 0390245
- IMDb rating: 5.9 (4,410 votes)
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography, Sport
- Director: Aleksi Makela, Peter Franzen
- Cast: Juha Veijonen, Jasper Paakkonen, Elina Hietala and others
- Release date: 13 Jan 2006
- Release year: 2006
- Runtime: 135 minutes
- Country: Finland
- Keywords: ski jumper, singer, alcohol, ski jumping, sports history, domestic violence, olympian, yellow journalism, olympic gold medalist, sports man
Plot:
A ski jumper descends from winning 4 Olympic Gold Medals, to serving two years for stabbing a relative. Careers as a stripper and singer, plus five marriages, replete with allegations of domestic violence are fictionalized sympathetically in this dramedy. Alleged exploitation/manipulation of Matti, due to his naivety and gullibility, along with deterioration of his skiing ability due to heavy drinking and bad decisions is emphasized. Many Matti malapropisms a la Yogi Berra, attributed to the Finnish skiing legend, are employed as biopic comic dialogue.