The Well

Overview

This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.

Cast

Merja Larivaara

Anna-Maija Laakso

Auvo Vihro

Matti Laakso

Liisamaija Laaksonen

Taimi

N/A

Katariina Kaitue

Merja

Martti Suosalo

Arvi Parikka

N/A

Otto Hakala

Marko Laakso

N/A

Ossi Hakala

Mika Tapani Laakso

N/A

Dick Idman

Detective

N/A

Henriikka Salo

Attorney

N/A

Leif Lindgren

Young singer

N/A

Ludowica Eklund

Guard

Cris af Enehielm

Gas station girl