Lampaansyöjät (The Sheep Eaters) is a 1972 Finnish comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Seppo Huunonen [fi].

[4] Forester Sepe (Heikki Kinnunen) and branch manager Valtteri (Leo Lastumäki) meet at the beginning of their summer vacation at the beach hotel in Kalajoki and launch the "Operation Sheep Eaters" they planned for the winter.

The lamb turns out to be delicious, but they get tired of that too and start fantasize for the trout and fresh water of Lapland's mountain streams.

Two of them come to Sepe and Valtteri's camp and want to buy food: when the men offer their "robber's roast", the women back away in horror when they see the butchered sheep remains.

They stop by the liquor store, check their trash can left over from the previous summer at their familiar gravel pit, and continue their philosophical discussions.

On the way back, the men run over a sheep: they are afraid of the consequences of their action, knowing that Norway is part of NATO and the risk of being caught at customs is too high, so they throw the dead animal into the river.

[1] Actors Heikki Kinnunen and Leo Lastumäki, who had previously acted together in the 1971–72 television sketch show Ällitälli, were chosen for the roles of the film's main characters, Sepe and Valtteri.

When Heikki Katajisto, who was appointed as his replacement, got into a traffic accident, it was decided that Risto Inkinen, Esko Jantunen and Pentti Auer would complete the shooting of the film.

For example, in the premiere review, Eeva Järvenpää from Helsingin Sanomat said that she considers Kari Sohlberg's cinematography to be the best part of the film, which shows the landscapes of Northern Finland as "beautiful as a travel film", and she also praised the chemistry of Kinnusen and Lastumäki, a well-honed comedy couple on television, and said it was at its best when Huovinen's literary style and "teen convention-like" dialogue had been modified to suit the actors' mouths.

However, she criticized the film's social message, or rather the lack of it: "Lampaansyöjät is made for those people who don't worry unnecessarily, who have their own mouth first and money for their own needs.