Posted by jukkahoo
As has been the habit of
recent years, Flame Mountain Studios will release a brand new film. Due to some
technical procedures, the anxiously anticipated masterpiece God of
Atlantis (Atlantiksen jumala) was not ready before Xmas, but
now it is finally here!
As a matter of fact, the
Premiere will be this Saturday (16th of February) at the Multiplex Benita. I
had hoped GooGooMuck, who is organising the event, would have at least a
passing mention of the happening on their website, but no. Nothing.
What I know is, that
starting at 6PM Helsinki University Science Fiction Club will show a
veritable ‘Smorgersboard‘ of movies relating to Atlantis and
its Ammazzing secrets! The opening number will be the aforementioned God of
Atlantis, starring Matti Tanska as heroic Jouni Kaartinen,
Veikko Laeslehto as ingenious engineer Lauri Mutteri,
Timo-Jussi Hämäläinen as dastardly villian colonel Taisto Kansa and Yours Truly
as docent Arimo Kaskelotti,
inventor extraordinaire.
Yes, we’re talking about a sequel (of sorts) for the 1950’s b/w film Warlord of Saturn (Saturnuksen sotavaltias).
God of Atlantis (1967) is a 50-minute long fantastical film, filled with
derring do’s and excitement! Submersibles! Adversaries worse than lizardmen,
aliens or even alien lizardmen! You’ll be glued to your seat! Provided we can
get some cheap glue somewhere. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you want your money
back! Another brilliant film by that auteur Petri Hiltunen!
So, this Saturday at around 6PM at Benita. Benita is located at Leppäsuonkatu 9 B, 1st floor (that’s ground level
here in Finland).
Basically it’s behind Clubhouse, but due to the ever ongoing buildingprojects,
the best way to get there is to walk along the Leppäsuonkatu, provided one is
coming from the direction of Kamppi.
I haven’t seen the picture
myself. It was, as usual, fun making the film, even if we had few problems
along the way. I don’t have really high expectations of my own performance, I
felt at times that I was a bit flat while delivering my lines, but you never
know. What I do know, is that the movie is filled with some glorious
performances! Just you wait!
I hope
director-screenwriter-producer-actor-FX-maker-renaissanceman Hiltunen will have
some copies of the film for sale. I need to get myself a few copies!
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