Borrowing Matchsticks (, ) is a Soviet–Finnish historical adventure comedy film produced by Mosfilm and Suomi-Filmi in 1980.
The film is based on the novel with the same title, , by Algot Untola. The novel was also put to film in 1938, .
Cast Yevgeny Leonov (Antti Ihalainen) Vyacheslav Nevinny (Jussi Vatanen) Georgy Vitsin (Tahvo Kennonen) Rita Polster (Anna-Lisa Ihalainen) Ritva Valkama (Miina) Sergey Filippov (Hyvärinen) Nina Grebeshkova (Hyvärinen's wife) Vera Ivleva (Anna-Kaisa) Galina Polskikh (Kaisa Karhutar) Mikhail Pugovkin (chief of Police) Kauko Helovirta (lieutenant Torvelainen) Leo Lastumäki (farmer Partanen) Olavi Ahonen (Ville Huttunen) Leonid Kuravlyov (peasant) Viktor Uralsky (peasant)
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