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TELEVISION

Helsinki Syndrome - Season 1

Series: Helsinki Syndrome
4.3
(12)
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Episodes
8
Rating
TVMA
Year
2022
Language
Finnish
Publisher
MHz Choice

About

Entrepreneur Elias Karo takes four journalists hostage in order to reveal that 30 years ago, a bank manager and a district court judge took his family's possessions with the government's blessing and caused a still ongoing family tragedy.

Related Subjects

  • Drama

Episodes

1. Saturday

49m

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Post Covid-19 pandemic, economic strife hits home for Elias who's still haunted by government corruption that stripped his family of everything they owned in the 90s. Elias holds 4 journalists hostage demanding they expose the truth.

2. Sunday

49m

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Elias releases one of the journalist hostages so that she can search for evidence proving that Elias' bank committed a crime in the 90s. Meanwhile, hostage negotiator, Jarmo, prepares for what appears to be a lengthy hostage situation.

3. Monday

47m

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The journalists don't have enough information to publish Elias' story. Elias makes a public appeal requesting related personal stories be sent into the newspaper office. Jarmo continues to negotiate with Elias on behalf of the hostages.

4. Tuesday

42m

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The motive for the hostage situation spreads in the media. Meanwhile, Elias' accomplice, Lauri, makes a break in the case by hacking his way into a wealth of evidence. The hostages begin to sympathize with Elias.

5. Tuesday Evening

50m

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A crucial piece of missing evidence is discovered, meanwhile Elias and Lauri run into more trouble. A sympathizer who also lost everything in the 90s arrives outside the news building in a lorry, interfering with police activity.

6. Wednesday

54m

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Elias and Lauri are running out of options. Jarmo changes negotiation tactics as police cut the news building off to the outside world. As pressure increases, one of the journalists makes an important discovery.

7. Thursday

51m

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Suspicions surrounding Elias' motives arise. Meanwhile, Elias is running out of time and pleads with Jarmo to have power restored to the news building, if only for a moment. The truth must be exposed, and the hostage situation must soon end.

8. Long Weekend

52m

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Jarmo exposes Elias' ulterior motive behind the hostage situation. When the complicated plan is exposed, will the victims of the 90s ever see justice?

Extended Details

  • SeriesHelsinki Syndrome
  • Closed CaptionsNo

Artists

Juuso SyrjaDirector
Peter FranzenActor
Oona AirolaActor
Taneli MakelaActor
Laura MalmivaaraActor