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These Boots

Finland / 1992

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Screenplay: Aki Kaurismäki

Cinematography: Timo Salminen

Editor: Aki Kaurismäki

Sound: Jouko Lumme

Music: Lee Hazelwood

Cast: Mato Valtonen, Anu Frosterus, Kirsi Tykkyläinen, Jaakko Talaskivi, Atte Blom, Jouko Lumme, Leningrad Cowboys

Producers: Aki Kaurismäki, Atte Blom

Produced by: Sputnik Oy, Megamania Ky

Duration: 5 min.

These Boots tells "the Finnish history from 1952 to 1969" and begins with the birth of the main character (Mato Valtonen). This combination of a short film and a music video goes through the most important events of the main character's life: from his school years to marriage, from the daily grind of working life to the routines of farming and his father's death, ending melancholically in a scene where the main character gives up farming as it no longer provides a living. Members of Leningrad Cowboys play important supporting roles in the scenes that depict these events.