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THE CLASSIC is a hilarious story based on a best selling Finnish novel by Kari Hotakainen. The main character is the writer, Kari Hotakainen, himself. Praised by critics but shunned by the book-buying public, he is asked by his publisher to write a self-revealing diary of his early years as a writer. Desperate to find inspiration to write, this best-seller throws the writer into a world of fast cars and the story into an accelerating tailspin. A disagreement over the ownership of a certain Alfa Romeo 75 Twin Spark between a second hand car salesman, an unemployed roughneck and a writer desperately seeking fame, finds resolution in a police chase broadcasted live on Finnish television from the motorway; the last bastion of real men in their overpowered cars. The story binds together the writer’s pseudo-diaries and the reality of traditional Finnish men and society. The outcome is fast moving and stunningly funny.