8 Päivää Ensi-Iltaan

Alternative title: 8 Days to Premiere Eight Days to Premiere
Synopsis: Feature film. Romantic comedy set against a background of a stage production of Romeo and Juliet. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.
Language: Finnish
Country: Finland
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2008
Duration: 110 mins

Director

Perttu Leppä

Producer

Cinematographer

Screenplay

Music

Production Design

Kimmo Tuliainen

Costume

Ella Brigatti

Cast

Mikko Leppilampi	Romeo
Laura Birn	Vilma (Juliet)

Notes: Extracts only streamed at http://globalshakespeares.mit.edu/eight-days-to-the-premiere. Individual owners are selling copies on amazon.com (accessed 8/2013).
History: Shown at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival
Reviews: Nely Keinanan, ‘What’s Global about Global Shakespeare? The Case of Perttu Leppä's 8 päivää ensi-iltaan (8 Days to the Premiere).' Shakespeare: Journal of the British Shakespeare Association special issue on global Shakespeares, edited by Alexander Huang, Volume 9 Number 3 (September 2013).

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