| Pirtua, pirtua | |
| Director: | Visa Mäkinen |
| Producer: | Visa Mäkinen |
| Music: | Jouni Virta |
| Cinematography: | Keijo Mäkinen Visa Mäkinen |
| Editing: | Sini Mosti |
| Studio: | Tuotanto Visa Mäkinen |
| Distributors: | --> |
| Runtime: | 94 minutes |
| Country: | Finland |
| Language: | Finnish |
Pirtua, pirtua is a 1991 Finnish drama movie directed by Visa Mäkinen. The plot consists of a young man fighting against bootleggers in his home village during Finnish prohibition.
The movie, which was Visa Mäkinen's first attempt at a serious movie, ended up a box office flop, with only 1,650 tickets sold and caused losses of a million Finnish markka. Mäkinen gave up on making movies as a result. When Pirtua, Pirtua aired on the Finnish television channel MTV3 in May 1995, it was seen by 287,000 viewers. In June 2001, another 180,000 television viewers saw the movie.[1]
In the movie guide Video-opas in 1994, critic Olavi Similä praises the depiction of the subject matter, but finds the content mediocre, giving the movie a grade of two starts out of five.