Archive · 7 Dec 2025
Finnish Dark Comedy '100 Liters of Gold'
A Finnish director named Teemu Nikki made a movie called '100 Liters of Gold.'
It's about two sisters who brew a special kind of ale called sahti for their sister's wedding.
They drink it all by mistake and have to find more before the big day.
The movie is a dark comedy that shows how drinking can be funny at first but then not so fun.
The actors in the movie, Elina Knihtilä and Pirjo Lonka, talked about how they didn't really like sahti, which is like a Finnish tradition.
The director wanted to make a movie about his home village and the sahti ale, but he didn't want it to just be a silly drinking story.
This movie is Finland's pick for the International Feature Oscar.
Director Teemu Nikki's '100 Liters of Gold' is Finland's Oscar submission for International Feature.
The film follows two sisters who must brew 100 liters of sahti for their sister's wedding after drinking their original batch.
Actors Elina Knihtilä and Pirjo Lonka discussed their personal connections to sahti, with mixed feelings about the traditional ale.
Nikki wanted to avoid clichés and create a dark comedy that explores the consequences of excessive drinking.
The film is set in Nikki's home village of Sysmäi and draws inspiration from Finnish drinking culture.
- Who
- Director Teemu Nikki, actors Elina Knihtilä and Pirjo Lonka
- What
- A dark comedy about sisters brewing sahti for a wedding
- When
- Oscar submission for 2024
- Where
- Sysmäi, Finland
- Why
- To explore Finnish drinking culture and personal connections to sahti
- Director
- Teemu Nikki
- Country
- Finland
- Oscar Submission
- International Feature
- Main Actors
- Elina Knihtilä, Pirjo Lonka
- Setting
- Sysmäi, Finland
- Plot
- Sisters brew sahti for wedding
- Inspiration
- Finnish drinking culture
- Previous Work
- Euthanizer, The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic