{"id":906308,"date":"2026-09-26T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906308\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T14:40:09","slug":"100-litres-of-gold-gets-a-sequel-with-200-litres-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906308\/","title":{"rendered":"‘100 Litres of Gold’ Gets a Sequel with ‘200 Litres of Gold’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBox-office hit \u201c100 Litres of Gold<\/a>\u201d \u2013 last year\u2019s Finnish Oscar submission \u2013 is getting a sequel, downing additional \u201c200 Litres of Gold<\/a>\u201d as the boozy saga about Finnish beer sahti continues.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn the first one, the sisters were making sahti for their sister\u2019s wedding. Now, they are making it for the Finnish Sahti Championship. To win, they need to tolerate each other and overcome rival sahti makers \u2013 and their father,\u201d says director Teemu Nikki<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNeedless to say, things don\u2019t go too smoothly, resulting in physical and mental damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tObviously, no one\u2019s going to stay sober for long. But the comedy also stems from other sources, and the relationships between the sisters, and their father, are \u201ceven more complex than before,\u201d says Nikki.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s also a new nemesis in town: the sahti makers from another village.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey are two ladies who are as crazy as our sisters. There\u2019s a lot of trash-talking and arm-wrestling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tElina Knihtil\u00e4 and Pijo Lonka return as Pirkko and Taina.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey\u2019re close, for sure. But how well they\u2019re able to take on life\u2019s challenges, both together and alone, is part of the story\u2019s theme,\u201d notes Lonka.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cActors have to find a way to love the characters they play, and these women were easy to love. They\u2019re human. They\u2019re not one-dimensional; they\u2019re vulnerable, flawed and sometimes childlike. But with all their imperfections, you can relate to them and grow close to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was liberating to get a role like that, she says.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt doesn\u2019t happen very often for women. It\u2019s great to show such a wide spectrum of emotions without holding back, and the person to thank for that is Teemu.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c100 Litres of Gold\u201d has already made waves abroad, with Dennis Lehane working on a U.S. remake.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tNikki and producer Jani P\u00f6s\u00f6 are no beginners \u2013 with their production company It\u2019s Alive Films, they have already created the likes of \u201cThe Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic,\u201d awarded in Venice, or their first Oscar submission \u201cEuthanizer.\u201d They\u2019re also behind Naima Mohamud\u2019s \u201cHalima.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, no other film has come close to the box-office results of \u201c100 Litres of Gold,\u201d the most-watched local film in 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt still feels a bit strange that it did so well. It\u2019s like we kept on hitting our heads against a wall until it finally collapsed,\u201d laughs P\u00f6s\u00f6.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn a way, I think we\u2019ve become better filmmakers. Everything just clicked, from marketing and distribution to acting. Elina has been with us since the very first short we made, she has been fantastic in every role, and we finally got to work with Pirjo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThey are happy to see this unlikely franchise grow.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are not sequel guys. But Teemu said: \u2018I\u2019m thinking of this as \u2018The Godfather,\u2019 and \u2018The Godfather Part II\u2019 was better than the first one,\u2019\u201d jokes P\u00f6s\u00f6.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit darker, a little bit funnier and a little bit bigger. We find out that one of the sisters is not doing great; her liver has basically exploded. As in all our films, things get pretty serious in the end, even though it\u2019s fun. It\u2019s also totally independent, so you can watch it without having seen the first one. But the second one will make you want to watch the first one, and vice versa,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWith all franchises, there comes a moment when you need to stop. But a third one is certainly possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Box-office hit \u201c100 Litres of Gold\u201d \u2013 last year\u2019s Finnish Oscar submission \u2013 is getting a sequel, downing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[474104,474105,64,63,134,344,474106],"class_list":["post-906308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-100-litres-of-gold","tag-200-litres-of-gold","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-teemu-nikki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}