[1] In addition to Jari Halonen, the film's script was written by musician and writer Kauko Röyhkä and actor Jorma Tommila.

[2] The film received three Jussi Awards nominations for best direction (Jari Halonen), editing (Akke Eklund) and music (Tuomas Kantelinen), but did not win any of them.

Aleksis shocks the audience by reciting his poem Suomenmaa in Finnish, because only Swedish is considered an accepted language of poetry.

Aleksis gets to know Albina Palmqvist, Amalia Rosencrantz's niece, at the carnival, where Senator J. V. Snellman presents the idea of creating Finnish-language culture and literature.

Aleksis is writing his play Heath Cobblers in the yard of widow Mrs. Charlotta Lönnqvist's cottage in Fanjunkars, Siuntio.

Nervander organizes a party where Kaarlo Bergbom promises to found a Finnish-language theater if Aleksis writes plays to be performed.Cygnaeus raises a toast to Kivi and Finnish culture.

Aleksis gets drunk, but writes frantically day and night in the garden cabin about his first and only novel, The Seven Men, until exhausted and ends the work by correcting the title to The Seven Brothers.

In a fit of emotion, Emil reminds Cygnaeus and Bergbom that they "hired" Aleksis to create Finnish literature, and now they are abandoning him to a mental hospital.