The Well

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The Well (1992)

Directed by Pekka Lehto

Drama · 1h 48m

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.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Pekka Lehto
Screenplay
Outi Nyytäjä
Director of Photography
Esa Vuorinen
Original Music Composer
Anssi Tikanmäki
Editor
Artūras Pozdniakovas
Producer
Pekka Lehto

Details

Original title
Kaivo
Release date
1992-09-29
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Drama
Original language
FI
Spoken languages
Finnish
Countries
Denmark, Finland, Sweden
Production
Kinofinlandia, Metronome Productions, FilmTeknik
Budget
$550,000