Dog Nail Clipper

Name: Dog Nail Clipper
Director: Markku Pölönen
Released: 2004
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Peter Franzén, Taisto Reimaluoto, Ahti Kuoppala, Ville Virtanen, Risto Salmi

2004 · 105 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 1,503 VOTES · DIR. Markku Pölönen

Overview

Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...

Dialogue Timeline — 398 lines

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00:00:42 Soldiers, this is a great moment.

00:07:37 Damn, l wish one day l could enjoy the taste of real coffee and tobacco again.

00:09:18 She is a good gundog, too.

00:11:23 This is Ville Kuosmanen's famous Sakke.

00:13:25 Where is your house?

00:18:52 Good morning. - Hello.

00:22:44 How have you been?

00:25:31 Thank you.

00:30:19 Times have changed, we have different songs now.

00:33:21 Two meals, please.

00:37:32 What is that? - A pump.

00:46:31 l thought l'd ask you, since it never happened to me -

00:51:29 We'll find you something easier then.

00:58:06 How small their fingers are.

01:01:06 No, it isn't.

01:04:14 So that job wasn't suitable, either. l am going to have to think.

01:08:54 Could somebody tell me what my name is?

01:12:05 l have to take this home to dry it properly.

01:17:24 Ville was in the fortification corps but he was too old...

01:22:17 Son, you need to think and plan before you wrestle with animals.

01:24:41 The borderline is in the thicket.

01:27:42 We'll have to get to a doctor fast.

01:31:39 You just go with these girls.

01:39:18 Translation by Aretta Vähälä and David Robertson

Cast & Characters

Peter Franzén Mertsi Arhippa Vepsäläinen Taisto Reimaluoto Eetvi Manninen Ahti Kuoppala Ville Kuosmanen Ville Virtanen Foreman Luti Risto Salmi Horseman Turpeinen Timo Lavikainen Leinonen Leo Lastumäki Old Man Simo Tamminen Doctor Vieno Saaristo Taimi Kuosmanen Hannu Virolainen Station-Master

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed398

Dialogue density3.8 lines / min

First line00:00:42

Final line01:39:18

Production Record

DirectorMarkku Pölönen

LanguageFI

IMDb votes1,503