Hunters of the Night (film)
1984 film
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Hunters of the Night (Yön saalistajat) is a 1984 Finnish action thriller film produced and directed by Visa Mäkinen. The film is about a police officer who infiltrates a criminal organization operating in Pori.[1]
Kauko Helovirta
Matti Mäntylä
Seppo Kulmala
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Finnish VHS cover of Hunters of the Night. | |
| Directed by | Visa Mäkinen |
| Written by | Kari Levola |
| Produced by | Visa Mäkinen |
| Starring | Ilmari Saarelainen Kauko Helovirta Matti Mäntylä Seppo Kulmala |
| Distributed by | Tuotanto Visa Mäkinen |
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Running time | 91 min |
| Language | Finnish |
The film shows violence and nudity more frankly than was generally the case in Finnish entertainment films of the 1980s; upon release, the film was rated K-18 by the Finnish Board of Film Classification.[1][2]
Hunters of the Night received mixed reviews from critics.[1] It was seen in theaters by only 1,670 viewers, but in its first television broadcast in 1987 by almost one and a half millions, although MTV3 initially showed the reels in the wrong order and restarted the show so that the total TV broadcast lasted two and a half hours.[1][3]
