Aku Sipola as Risto Salminen (© Anni.jpeg)
This week, Helsinki-based studio Rabbit Films has announced the start of a new six-episode drama with the working title
Mobile 1.0. The new series will chart “the incredible story of the rise of Finnish company Nokia to become the world’s leading manufacturer of mobile phones, before an equally dramatic fall from grace.”
Shot in Finland and the US in English and Finnish languages, it represents the first dramatic account of Finnish electronics company Nokia s rise from a small business to becoming a global success in the mobile phone industry, beating huge established brands. The first season is set in the years 1988-1990, when the technology for mobile phones was just starting to be developed. In particular, it will focus on the young and resourceful lawyers willing to take on their counterparts at deep pocketed multinational competitors; the brilliant, single-minded engineers developing revolutionary new products, boardroom plot
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