Reppuselkäinen mies ja laiha hevonen / A Man With a Rucksack and a Skinny Horse

Tapani Lundgren: Reppuselkäinen mies ja laiha hevonen / A Man With a Rucksack and a Skinny Horse (FI 1979) is based on a short story by Pentti Haanpää originally published in the collection Karavaani (1930).

FI © 1979 TTK / ETV. D+SC: Tapani Lundgren – based on the short story (1930) by Pentti Haanpää. DP: Raimo Paananen – b&w – 1:1,66. Starring Eero Tuomikoski (the man with the rucksack).
    11 min
    A digibeta projection in Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 1 October 2008.

The man with the rucksack sees a mistreated skinny horse, buys it with almost all the money he has, takes his Nagant and puts a bullet through the horse's head to save it from its misery.