| Sensuela | |
| Director: | Teuvo Tulio |
| Producer: | Teuvo Tulio |
| Music: | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| Cinematography: | Teuvo Tulio, Yrjö Norta |
| Editing: | Yrjö Norta |
| Studio: | Suomi-Filmi Oy |
| Distributor: | Suomi-Filmi Oy |
| Runtime: | 110 minutes (original version) 105 minutes (cut version) |
| Country: | Finland |
| Language: | English (original) Finnish (re-recorded) |
Sensuela is a 1973 Finnish drama film directed and written by Teuvo Tulio. The film is based on Tulio's 1946 film Rakkauden risti which itself was based on The Stationmaster, a short story written by Alexander Pushkin.[1] Sensuela was Tulio's final film, and it was met with harsh criticism. Since its release, it has gained a reputation as a campy cult classic and has been called "the weirdest Finnish film ever made".[2] Although the production was finished in 1972, it was not released until a year later and then opened only in selected theatres.
Sensuela is the story of Laila, a girl from Lapland, and Hans, a German soldier, who fall in love during the Continuation War.[3]
Sensuela was the first film to be rated 18 by the Finnish Board of Film Classification.[4] After its initial release, Tulio prevented the film's subsequent distribution, and it only became available after his death in 2000.[5]