Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.
Cast
Pertti Koivula
Tenho
Simo Kontio
Topi
Esko Nikkari
Hannes
Anu Palevaara
Hilkka
Peter Franzén
Kottarainen
Sulevi Peltola
Puukko
Heikki Kujanpää
Tohkanen
Vesa Mäkelä
Hilteeni
Ilkka Koivula
Lavikainen
Hannu Virolainen
Kauppias Mäkelä
Seppo Timonen
Rahastaja-Jussi
Antti Jokela
Olavi Virta
Jorma Ruokolainen
Tukkijätkä
Heimo Kärnä
Tukkijätkä
Terho Turunen
Tukkijätkä
Tommi Anttonen
Tukkijätkä
Risto Kettunen
Tukkijätkä
Jukka Malinen
Tukkijätkä
Satu Sadinkangas
Äiti linja-autossa (uncredited)
Sakri Pölönen
Vauva linja-autossa (uncredited)
Matti Mäkinen
Lääkäri (uncredited)
Vesa Mäkinen
Vesa-eno (uncredited)
Crew
Markku Pölönen
Director, Writer
Jukka Nykänen
Editor
Kari Sohlberg
Director of Photography
Nadja Pyykkö
Assistant Director, Casting, Makeup Designer
Kari Sara
Producer
Minna Santakari
Production Design
Tiina Kaukanen
Costume Design
Heikki Innanen
Sound Designer
Tuomo Kattilakoski
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jari Innanen
Sound
Vesa Mäkinen
Original Music Composer
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