Colorado Avenue is a 2007 film, directed by
Claes Olsson, and based on two Ostrobothnia novels by Lars Sund (Colorado Avenue and
Puodinpitäjän poika (Shopkeeper’s Son). The film tells
the story of Dollar-Hanna, dealing with humiliation, shame and respect.
When Hanna is little, she and her mother are forced to
leave their home island in the Bothnia archipelago after Hanna´s father drowns
at sea. Hanna
becomes a hired girl at the Smeds´ house and starts to save money to go to America. In 1893, at
the age of 18, she travels to the Unites
States and Colorado, determined to make money in the
Great West.
Ten years later in 1905, Hanna returns to her home village, Siklax, with her son Otto
and daughter,
Ida, but without a husband.
With her American dollars she buys a parcel of rocky land and
opens a country store. The
store becomes the village centre and the local people begin to respect the
industrious Hanna – or Dollar-Hanna as they choose to call her.
The film will be shown at 2pm at the Scandinavian Community
Centre, It is in Finnish with English subtitles, and there will, of course, be
coffee and goodies.
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