| Frozen Land | |
|---|---|
|   Poster | |
| Directed by | Aku Louhimies | 
| Produced by | Markus Selin | 
| Written by | Aku Louhimies | 
| Starring | Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko Leppilampi, Pamela Tola | 
| Cinematography | Rauno Ronkainen | 
| Edited by | Samu Heikkilä | 
| Release date | 2005 | 
| Running time | 130 minutes | 
| Country | Finland | 
| Language | Finnish | 
Frozen Land (Finnish: Paha maa) is a 2005 Finnish drama film directed and written by Aku Louhimies starring Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko Leppilampi and Pamela Tola.
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.
The film plot is based on (but not credited) on Leo Tolstoy's "The Forged Coupon" part 1 like Robert Bresson's "L'Argent".
The film has won several awards: