''Uuno Epsanjassa'' (an intentional misspelling of "Uuno in Spain") is a Finnish 1985 comedy film directed by

Ere Kokkonen Erkki Olavi "Ere" Kokkonen (7 July 1938 – 16 October 2008), born in Savonlinna, was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He worked closely with Spede Pasanen all the way from the 1960s until Spede's death, as a director, writer and also ...

. It is the tenth film in the Uuno Turhapuro series. It was seen by more than 600,000 people in the theatres, making it the third highest-grossing film in the series; the film was an even bigger success than Rauni Mollberg's '' The Unknown Soldier'', which came out the same year.

Production

Actor

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was playing on the same golf course while shooting the golf scene in the film. The working group thought of inviting him into the film for a small

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, but in the end none of the members of the working group wanted to invite the "great legend" into the film (although

later mentions in his memoirs that despite the request, Connery would have politely refused the cameo role). In 2015, Vesa-Matti Loiri recalled the same situation and said this: - Think of the situation where the golfball is placed in a low tree, between the branches. The guys are setting up the cameras and Pappa Jyrälä is looking for a recording location, and it's so damn hot and tiring and its a little annoying. I'm standing in a full Turhapuro mask, and the sun was so hot that even the squares of the net shirt burned into the skin. I see three big players walking by, and one of them stops to look and ask: you're making a movie? I say with a frown is it look like it. Then it goes away of course and I realize it's Sean Connery. Damn it. There was nothing diva in it, he kindly asked about it. I behaved stupidly and lost perhaps an interesting conversation. In

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scene, at first they tried to use a local actor in the role of Uuno but he wasn't funny enough, so Vesa-Matti Loiri decided to try it himself. The film also features Loiri's Nasse-setä character and the invention of the sports car drivers from

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, the "two-spoke car". The film was shot at the Hotel Del Golf in

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Plot

Uuno Turhapuro (played by Vesa-Matti Loiri) is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura ( Tapio Hämäläinen) is in the group, too, with his wife ( Marita Nordberg) and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet ( Marjatta Raita). Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.

Miscellaneous

"Epsanjassa" is humorous misspelling of the word "Espanjassa" (in Spain) that imitates uneducated spelling error.

References

External links

* 1985 films Spede Pasanen Finnish comedy films Finnish sequel films 1980s Finnish-language films 1980s Finnish films Films shot in Spain {{Finland-film-stub