Going to Kansas City

Summary Mikko, an exchange student from Finland, arrives in Kansas City. He is expecting to spend a year in the centre of the big city but the plans have already changed. He has a new host family, who live on a farm far outside the city. The life in the countryside becomes much more exciting when he gets to know the sheriff's daughter and falls in love. Too bad that the father doesn't allow it. When the harmless trip to the out-of-town bar goes terribly wrong, Mikko has to face a very serious reality. The concealed hatred between certain characters doesn't make the situation any easier. View more details

Going to Kansas City

Directed : Pekka Mandart

Written : Pekka Mandart Morrie Ruvinsky Tony MacNabb

Stars : Michael Ironside Melissa Galianos Susan Almgren Mikko Nousiainen

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Genres : Thriller Drama Romance

Release date : Jul 30, 1998

Countries of origin : Canada Finland

Official sites : Mandart Entertainment

Language : English

Filming locations : Clarenceville, Québec, Canada

Production companies : Telescene Film Group Productions Mandart Entertainment Ltd.

Summary Mikko, an exchange student from Finland, arrives in Kansas City. He is expecting to spend a year in the centre of the big city but the plans have already changed. He has a new host family, who live on a farm far outside the city. The life in the countryside becomes much more exciting when he gets to know the sheriff's daughter and falls in love. Too bad that the father doesn't allow it. When the harmless trip to the out-of-town bar goes terribly wrong, Mikko has to face a very serious reality. The concealed hatred between certain characters doesn't make the situation any easier. View more details

Details

Genres : Thriller Drama Romance

Release date : Jul 30, 1998

Countries of origin : Canada Finland

Official sites : Mandart Entertainment

Language : English

Filming locations : Clarenceville, Québec, Canada

Production companies : Telescene Film Group Productions Mandart Entertainment Ltd.

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Youth, which courage is always without prejudice, in Skopje in time of Bulgarian occupation in WW2, desire freedom for the people, resolves to several actions, including the biggest, to assassinate the police chief Emanuel Machkov. After Emanuel steps on duty, he orders his agents to turn bigger attention on the young of Debar Maalo, Pajko Maalo and Chair. In meantime, for safety passage of the partisan squad near Skopje, in the city they must organize several small actions who would have turned their attention on themselves. In that way Dano, Done, Igor and Boro take action at the airport, with burning the planes. In reaction, the police performs raid, they take away only young people that are exposed on large tortures. Simultaneously, the partisan squad trying to crosses Vardar (river in Skopje) enters in ambush. Boys are helping the wounded Mite Dimov to avoid the ambush and they take him at Angja, while Nikola is absent. The Police searches all suspicious houses and finds the wounded partisan in the house of Nikola. After hard torture, without admitting in front of the police, Mite is killed. Through the city are scattered flyers, railwaymen play the sirens, stores are closed. Local Committee decides to organize assassination on Emanuel. When the day came, boys take their places on the street, in front of Emanuel's home, and when his car take off, they kill him. After the assassination, boys must leave town. However, in time of leaving, they're trapped in ambush, all of them are killed, except Dano.

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