Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.
Erkki Pajala
as Joose Keppilä
Vesa Mäkelä
as Fiksu
Martti Kuningas
as Iso
Esko Hukkanen
as Vääpeli
Hannu Kahakorpi
as Seonnut alikersantti
Iris-Lilja Lassila
as Sylvia
Yrjö Parjanne
as Eversti
Harri Tirkkonen
as Lääkäri
Leila Itkonen
as Elviira
Heikki Nousiainen
as Korpraali
Pirkka-Pekka Petelius
as Sotapoliisi
Mikko Nousiainen
as Keittiömies
