The Well

4.0
19921h 48m

This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.

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Photo of Merja Larivaara

Merja Larivaara

Anna-Maija Laakso

Photo of Auvo Vihro

Auvo Vihro

Matti Laakso

Photo of Martti Suosalo

Martti Suosalo

Arvi Parikka

Photo of Cris af Enehielm

Cris af Enehielm

Gas station girl

Photo of Leea Klemola

Leea Klemola

Lawyer on the phone (uncredited) (voice)

Photo of Raimo Grönberg

Raimo Grönberg

Priest (uncredited) (voice)

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