The Matriarch
Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo, Repe and equally silly son-in-law Ventti. The family occasionally turns to crime when they can't quite make ends meet, and the boys begin turning to violence with greater frequency when Otto weakens and Martta becomes the head of the family business. Their fortunes take an unexpected turn when the brothers assault and abduct a man they call Kaspar, who becomes the family's sidekick in their travels. Despite Kaspar's inability to speak, he attracts Martha's youngest daughter, an attractive young woman named Lara, but the family is in disarray when a long-lost half-brother, Laszlo, suddenly re-emerges and tries to wrest control of the clan away from his mother.
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Peter Franzén
Laszlo
Sanna-Kaisa Palo
Martta
Samuli Vauramo
Kasper
Jenni Banerjee
Lara
Heikki Kinnunen
Niccolo / Otto
Heikki Hela
Mojo
Mika Nuojua
Ruippa
Janne Reinikainen
Lutku
Ismo Apell
Jali Nappi
Puntti Valtonen
Jori
Emma Piitulainen
Anna
Elina Knihtilä
Roosa
Lotta Lehtikari
Veera
Kaarina Turunen
Hullu-Helena
Toni Wahlström
Ventti
Tuomas Uusitalo
Hippo
Tatu Siivonen
Repe
Toni Väyrynen
Harjun jengiä
Janne Teeriaho
Harjun jengiä
Jussi Lähteenmäki
Harjun jengiä
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