That's why I always say that it's not some study of the Finnish economical crisis. Which might look like a very aggressive act, but then you start to understand him more and feel for him. “It all starts with him taking journalists as hostages. He adds that the series' title, Helsinki Syndrome, echoes the concept of the Stockholm Syndrome – a psychological response occurring when hostages or abuse victims start to bond with their captors. Peter was perfect for that,” he says about the actor, with whom he has also made one of the biggest war films in Finland, Ambush. He is a family guy, he can be gentle and we needed someone who would be able to show all this conflict. “He feels that what he is doing is the right thing. However, as argued by Halonen, Elias (played by Franzén) isn't exactly a villain. He does so mostly by kidnapping four respected journalists, in order to finally expose the crimes of the banking officials and the government, including crimes against his own family, which ultimately led to his father's suicide. That's the tipping point, and he decides to take on the system.” Our main hero doesn't receive it because of his bankruptcy track record and that brings him to what happened 30 years ago, when his family's business was destroyed. In every country some businesses are big enough to get the coronavirus support and others are overlooked. Justus Riesenkampff, director of Beta Nordic Studios, agrees: “I haven't been aware of that 1990s crisis, and yet they match together perfectly. It's such a rich angle for the whole storyline.”
“We faced the pandemic during the writing process and it was something we just couldn't avoid.
#Syndrome where you love your captor series#
Later on, we decided to make a drama series instead” – explains Fisher King’s CEO Matti Halonen. We were preparing a documentary series about the economic crisis in Finland in the 1990s. “We started this project with Mikko some years ago.
Starring Peter Franzén, of Vikings fame, the series is created by Mikko Oikkonen and, as Cineuropa has learnt, it promises to interweave the financial crisis of the 1990s, which shook up Finland, with contemporary issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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