Directed by:
Joona TenaCinematography:
Jarkko T. LaineComposer:
Sakari SalliCast:
Minna Haapkylä, Petteri Summanen, Laura Malmivaara, Taneli Mäkelä, Lotta Lehtikari, Miia Nuutila, Noora Peltokukka, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Jukka Rasila (more)Plots(1)
FC VENUS is a modern comedy about women and men, and the differences between the two. It's a story of success and failure, the joy of winning and the fear of losing – and football. The main characters in the film are ANNA and PETE, a couple in their late twenties who live together in Helsinki. Their relationship is very happy and balanced. There's only one problem: Pete plays football on a team called FC HeMan, in the 7th division, the lowest possible league level. Their team sucks, but the players are passionately committed. The men play, watch, think and live football. Anna hates the whole sport, but keeps herself from interfering with Pete's hobby because she loves him.
Anna finds out to her shock that Pete has already ordered tickets with his teammates for the Football World Cup in Germany, for the summer weeks 2006. It seems that Pete is putting his teammates ahead of Anna. In a fit of anger, Anna ends up making a bet with Pete and other FC Heman men: If Anna manages to put together a team out of the wives and girlfriends of the FC HeMan players, the team will challenge the men to a match at the end of the summer. If the women win, the men will have to give up playing and watching football. If the men win, the women will never again give the men a hard time about their hobby. So is the women's team FC Venus formed. The film follows the women during one summer on their unlikely quest towards the one football match to end all the football matches (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Minna Haapkylä
Finland
Best movies:
Christmas Story (2007)
The Interrogation (2009)
The Border (2007)
Petteri Summanen
Finland
Best movies:
Frozen Land (2005)
Upswing (2003)
Restless (2000)
Laura Malmivaara
Finland
Best movies:
Frozen Land (2005)
Open Up to Me (2013)
Lovers & Leavers (2002)
Taneli Mäkelä
Finland
Best movies:
The Winter War (1989)
Naked Harbour (2012)
The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Lotta Lehtikari
Finland
Best movies:
Lovers & Leavers (2002)
The Matriarch (2007)
Un pari de foo...t ! (2005)
Miia Nuutila
Finland
Best movies:
Lapland Odyssey (2010)
Lapland Odyssey 2 (2015)
The Flight Before Christmas (2008)
Noora Peltokukka
Best movies:
Stars Above (2012)
Un pari de foo...t ! (2005)
Hannu-Pekka Björkman
Finland
Best movies:
Christmas Story (2007)
The Interrogation (2009)
The Border (2007)
Jukka Rasila
Finland
Best movies:
Princess (2010)
Niko 2 - Little Brother, Big Trouble (2012)
Un pari de foo...t ! (2005)
Puntti Valtonen
Finland
Best movies:
Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
Calamari Union (1985)
The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Janne Virtanen
Finland
Best movies:
Frozen Land (2005)
Unknown Soldier (2017)
Tears of April (2008)
Jerry Wahlforss
Finland
Best movies:
Frozen Land (2005)
Beyond Enemy Lines (2004)
Lovers & Leavers (2002)
Diana Anttila
Best movies:
Un pari de foo...t ! (2005)
Elina Hagelin
Best movies:
One-way Ticket to Mombasa (2002)
Un pari de foo...t ! (2005)
Eija Mikkonen-Budsko
Best movies:
Mother of Mine (2005)
Frozen Land (2005)
Un pari de foo...t ! (2005)
Irma Tervahartiala
Best movies:
Un pari de foo...t ! (2005)
Jenni Toivonen
Best movies:
Un pari de foo...t ! (2005)
Olli Halonen
Finland
Best movies:
Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006)
Un pari de foo...t ! (2005)
Juha Junttu
Best movies:
Un pari de foo...t ! (2005)
Harri Kettumäki
Best movies:
One-way Ticket to Mombasa (2002)
Un pari de foo...t ! (2005)