Alcan Highway (Trailer @ CPH:DOX 2013)

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An eccentric Finn buys a 63 year old truck to rebuild it into a mobile home and drive 4000 km from Alaska to Vancouver. 'I always hatch ultra-optimistic plans. Maybe it's just my subconscious way of ignoring reality,' as he says himself -- and optimism is also put to the test along the way. Not just Hese Tolonen's, but also that of his surroundings. Like a Finnish blend of Don Quixote and John Wayne, he throws himself into the chaotic project with a true pioneering flair, an indomitable drive and high spirits, which even an exploding motor can't defeat. Along the way, he is helped by a gallery of good-natured Americans, who see an exotic kindred spirit in Hese and his insatiable desire to attain the kind of freedom, which manifests itself quite naturally in a life on the road. A wonderful story, which the director Aleksi Salmenperä depicts in sunny pictures and magnificent cinemascope along the scenic Alcan Highway.