Fire-Eater

Fire-Eater

Tulennielijä
🎞️ Movie 100 min FI
โ˜… 6.6 /10 1998

The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged Helena has looked into her past, ceased to hate and now, for the first time in her life, voluntarily accepts responsibility for another human being.

Cast

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Elina Hurme
Helena
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Tiina Weckström
Mother
Elena Leeve
Elena Leeve
Helena 14 Years
Elsa Saisio
Elsa Saisio
Irene 14 Years
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Vappu Jurkka
Grandmother
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Jordi Borrell
Ramon
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Sari Havukainen
Helena 8 Years
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Inka Vogt
Irene 8 Years
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Unna Kitti
Girl
Per Ragnar
Per Ragnar
Circus Director
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Richard Einhorn
Composer
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Kjell Lagerroos
Cinematographer