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The Harvest Month (Finnish: Elokuu) is a 1956 Finnish drama film directed by Matti Kassila. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. [source: Wikipedia]

Viktor Sundvall is a guard of a little channel in the Finnish countryside. He is an unsuccessful playwright who is frustrated with his marriage and his life and therefore he has became an alcoholic. One Saturday-morning in august he is waiting for a visit of an old family-friend Maija Länsilehto with whom he has had a relationship in his youth. But Sundvall does not know that the Saturday will be the last day of his life. [source: imdb.com]

After the book by F. E. Sillanpää (1939 Nobel Prize for literature winner)

• Matti Kassila [1924 – 2018] was one of the most prominent Finnish filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s. wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Kassila