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Colorado Avenue (2007) Director: Claes Olsson Presentation: Set in the years of Finland's independence, Colorado Avenue deals with a young girl's humiliation, shame and respect as she grows up. Forced to leave her home after her father's tragic death, she begins to save money to move to America. She begins what turns into a long journey with many challenges ahead. Dollar-Hanna, as she is known because of the money she brings back from her life in America, is an industrious woman with many struggles that comes to be respected in her village. Colorado Avenue is a look at a strong woman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who must make difficult decisions as the people around her, especially her husband, make choices that could change her life forever. Synopsis: When Hanna (Birthe Wingren) is little, she and her mother are forced to leave their home island in the Bothnia archipelago after Hanna´s father drowns at sea. Hanna becomes a hired girl at the Smeds´ house. She starts to save money to go to America. In 1893, at the age of 18, she travels to the Unites States and Colorado, determined to make money in the Great West. Ten years later in 1905, Hanna returns to her home village Siklax with her son Otto (Peter Kanerva) and daughter Ida (Joanna Wingren), but without a husband. |
