Watch A Respectable Tragedy (1998) Online

In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people. Read More

Watch A Respectable Tragedy online. Featuring Ville Virtanen and Päivi Akonpelto, A Respectable Tragedy is classified as Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 3.3. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Finland and was released on 1998. A Respectable Tragedy was directed by Kaisa Rastimo. Read Less