Death Is a Problem for the Living

Risto is a gambling addict, in debt, and drives a hearse. With his friend Arto he makes up the cheapest transport in the business. Things reach a point where both of them need to start again. The idea of making money out of carrying the dead crosses to the wrong side of the law before long, and the two men cannot get back out of it. Teemu Nikki's Finnish and Italian co-production screened at the Rome Film Festival in 2023. The tone of black comedy holds from beginning to end: death is on screen constantly, but the film is interested not in death but in two men who have to carry it. Pekka Strang and Jari Virman take the leads. Friendship and forgiveness are the real subject underneath all the darkness.