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{{Infobox film
| name           = Let Not One Devil Cross the Bridge
| image          = Äl' yli päästä perhanaa.jpg
| caption        = Original Finnish film poster
| director       = [[Matti Kassila]]
| producer       = [[Maunu Kurkvaara]]
| writer         = Matti Kassila<br>Kari Kyrönseppä
| starring       = Maija Karhi<br>[[Pentti Siimes]]<br>[[Helge Herala]]<br>[[Toivo Mäkelä]]
| music          = Esko Linnavalli
| cinematography = Raimo Hartzell
| editing        = Allan Wallenius
| distributor    =
| released       = {{film date|1968|2|2|df=yes}}
| runtime        = 99 minutes
| country        = Finland
| language       = Finnish
| budget         =
}}
'''''Let Not One Devil Cross the Bridge''''' ({{langx|fi|'''Äl’ yli päästä perhanaa'''}}) is a 1968 Finnish [[Anthology film|anthology]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Matti Kassila]]. The film is an ensemble divided into three independent stories, based on the ideas of the actual frame story, where the people who took part in the film design meeting during the get-together held at evening.<ref>MH: ''Äl’ yli päästä perhanaa'', p. 12. Viikon TV-elokuvia, ''TV-maailma'' 6/2014. (in Finnish)</ref> The film is starring Maija Karhi, [[Pentti Siimes]], [[Helge Herala]] and [[Toivo Mäkelä]].
Director Kassila returned to film directing after a five-year hiatus. The film was completed at a time when [[Finnish television]] had begun to take audiences away from cinemas, which is why Kassila wanted to use this film to comment on the crisis in the [[Cinema of Finland|Finnish film industry]].<ref>Leena Virtanen: ''Matti Kassila halusi sekoilla'', p. B 17. TV & radio, ''[[Helsingin Sanomat]]'', February 20, 2013. (in Finnish)</ref>
The film's audience success was the weakest in 1968, even though it was effectively marketed, and it made big losses, making it the [[box-office bomb]].<ref>''[https://elonet.finna.fi/Record/kavi.elonet_elokuva_116797 Äl' yli päästä perhanaa]'' - [[National Audiovisual Institute (Finland)|National Audiovisual Institute]], ''Finna.fi'' (in Finnish)</ref> In the television show ''Kinoklubi'', where directors Matti Kassila and [[Markku Pölönen]] and producer [[Markus Selin]] listed their own failed films and the reasons for the failure, Kassila considered ''Let Not One Devil Cross the Bridge'' to be one of his worst films ever made.<ref>[http://yle.fi/elavaarkisto/artikkelit/huonot_elokuvat_47696.html#media=47701 Ylen Elävä Arkisto.] (in Finnish)</ref>
==See also==
* ''[[Kummeli: Stories]]''
==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0139754|title=Äl’ yli päästä perhanaa}}
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[[Category:1960s Finnish-language films]]
[[Category:1960s Finnish films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Matti Kassila]]
[[Category:Finnish comedy films]]
[[Category:Anthology films]]
[[Category:1968 comedy films]]
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