The Well

A grim, slow-burning true-crime drama that immerses you in rural isolation and mental unraveling, leaving a heavy, somber aftertaste.

Directed by

Pekka Lehto

Genres

Drama

Starring

Merja Larivaara, Auvo Vihro, Liisamaija Laaksonen

Overview

This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.

How it feels

Bleak, dark, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Isolation, grief, guilt, family

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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