The true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.The true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.The true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.
- Awards
- 13 wins & 15 nominations
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn 2011 in Kokkola city theatre, director Juho Kuosmanen saw a play about Olli Mäki, who was also in the audience that night. After the play, the theatre director Jarkko Lahti posed together with Mäki for a picture. Kuosmanen said to Lahti that if he directed a film about Mäki, Lahti could play the leading role. Lahti took that as a promise and began training boxing. He even took a few official amateur bouts (which he lost) and thus it became obvious that he really would play Olli Mäki in this film.
- GoofsA modern switchboard housing can be briefly seen in the hallway of Elis Ask's apartment.
- Quotes
Olli Mäki: What if I lose? What if people are disappointed in me and realize I'm not the guy they advertised? What if you're disappointed?
Raija Jänkä: How could I be disappointed when I haven't asked anything of you? If anyone's disappointed, it's because of his own stupid fantasies. You're not responsible for them.
Olli Mäki: Is that so?
Raija Jänkä: Yes, it is.
Olli Mäki: Will you marry me?
Raija Jänkä: Will you become the world champion?
Olli Mäki: Of course I will.
Raija Jänkä: Okay, I'll marry you.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Dinosaur (2021)
For the boxing genre the film is remarkable relaxed. This time not a touchy flammable Jake La Motta as the main character ("Raging bull", 1980, Martin Scorsese) but the somewhat shy Olli Maki. Olli is very realistic about his chances of becoming world champion in his weight class, but he has luckily other interests too.
In Holland the film showed only for a very short period of time and only in a couple of art house theaters, but it is nonetheless well worth seeing.
- frankde-jong
- Oct 26, 2019
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- Also known as
- The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
- Filming locations
- Vartiosaari, Helsinki, Finland(The house where Olli goes into retreat)
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Box office
- Budget
- €1,200,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $571,373
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1