Prelude to Ecstasy
Cast & Crew
Toivo Särkkä
Liana Kaarina
Toivo Makela
Esko Salminen
Eero Roine
Rose-marie Precht
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.
Director
Toivo Särkkä
Cast
Liana Kaarina
Toivo Makela
Esko Salminen
Eero Roine
Rose-marie Precht
Åke Lindman
Kaarlo Wilska
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Produced in Finland in 1961 under the title Kuu on vaarallinen; running time: 105 min. Pressbook credits film as a "Swedish International Motion Pictures" production, although it is a Finnish film.
