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Huhtikuu Tulee
''April's Coming'' (Finnish: ''Huhtikuu tulee'') is a 1953 Finnish comedy film directed by Valentin Vaala and starring Ossi Elstelä, Tuija Halonen and Kurt Ingvall.Qvist & von Bagh p.257 Cast * Ossi Elstelä as Subeditor * Tuija Halonen as Journalist * Kurt Ingvall as Jaakko Huhtikuu * Hilkka Kinnunen as Annikki Teräs * Rauno Kuosmanen as Pertti Avovirta * Harry Lewing as Jopi * Tarmo Manni as Kiuru - artist * Kerstin Nylander * Rauha Rentola as Elisabet Avovirta * Joel Rinne as Heikki Avovirta * Anja Räsänen as Kaija Avovirta * Emma Väänänen * Mika Waltari Mika Toimi Waltari (; 19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel '' The Egyptian'' ( fi, Sinuhe egyptiläinen). He was extremely productive. Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stor ... as Man in a restaurant References Bibliography * Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland''. Greenwood Publishing Gro ...
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Valentin Vaala
Valentin Vaala (born Valentin Yakovich Ivanoff, Russian: Валентин Якович Иванов; 13 October 1909 in Helsinki – 21 November 1976 in Helsinki) was a Finnish film director, screenwriter and film editor. His career spanned several decades, from 1929 to 1973, and has been called one of the most significant, in both quality and popularity, in the history of Finnish cinema.Laine, Lukkarila, Seitajärvi, p. 45 Early career Valentin Vaala was born to Russian parents Jakov Ivanov (Ivanoff), a milliner, and Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Jeminova. The couple moved from Saint Petersburg to Helsinki prior to Vaala's birth. The family spoke Russian at home, and Valentin attended school at Helsinki's Russian-language Tabunov School. After leaving school, he worked as an illustrator for the daily newspaper ''Uusi Suomi'' from 1926 until 1929. As a teenager, Vaala befriended Theodor Tugai – who later became known as a film director and actor under the name Teuvo Tulio – and the ...
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Rauha Rentola
Rauha Olivia Elisabet Rentola (4 February 1919, Kuhmoinen − 20 July 2005) was a Finnish actress. During her career, she appeared in close to a hundred films while also working for Finnish National Theatre for half a century. Selected filmography * '' Light Melody'' (1946) * ''Tree Without Fruit'' (1947) * ''Suopursu kukkii'' (1947) * ''Prinsessa Ruusunen'' (1949) * ''Radio tulee hulluksi'' (1952) * ''April's Coming'' (1953) * ''Silja – nuorena nukkunut'' (1956) * '' Tulipunainen kyyhkynen'' (1961) * ''Kaasua, komisario Palmu! Gas, Inspector Palmu! (original Finnish title: ''Kaasua, komisario Palmu!'') is a 1961 Finnish crime movie directed by Matti Kassila. It is a sequel to Inspector Palmu's Mistake and is followed by The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu. The main ...'' (1962) References External links * 1919 births 2005 deaths People from Kuhmoinen Finnish film actresses {{Finland-actor-stub ...
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Films Based On Works By Mika Waltari
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ...
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1950s Finnish-language Films
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Finnish Comedy Films
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1953 Comedy Films
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1953 Films
The year 1953 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1953 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 16 – A new Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. is incorporated following a Consent Judgment to divest their Stanley Warner Theaters. * February 5 – Walt Disney's production of J.M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'', starring Bobby Driscoll and Kathryn Beaumont, premieres to astounding acclaim from critics and audiences and quickly becomes one of the most beloved Disney films. This is the last Disney animated movie released in partnership RKO Pictures, becoming the last ever smash hit movie of the later company before it bankrupted in 1959. * July 1 – ''Stalag 17'', directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden, premieres and is considered by the critics and audiences to be one of the greatest WWII Prisoner of War films ever made. Holden wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the ...
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Emma Väänänen
Emma Väänänen (22 December 1907 – 20 February 1970) was a Finnish film actress. She appeared in 49 films between 1941 and 1969. She was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival in 1959. Selected filmography * '' Golden Light'' (1946) * ''Tree Without Fruit'' (1947) *'' People in the Summer Night'' (1948) * ''The Harvest Month ''The Harvest Month'' ( fi, Elokuu) is a 1956 Finnish drama film directed by Matti Kassila. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Toivo Mäkelä as Viktor Sundvall * Emma Väänänen as Saimi Sundvall * Rauni Luoma as Maija L ...'' (1956) References External links * 1907 births 1970 deaths People from Mikkeli People from Mikkeli Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish film actresses 20th-century Finnish actresses {{Finland-actor-stub ...
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Joel Rinne
Toivo Joel Rinne (6 June 1897, Asikkala – 3 December 1981) was a prolific Finnish actor of stage and screen. Among his most memorable film parts was the title role in the Inspector Palmu movie series, which started in 1960's ''Komisario Palmun erehdys'', and continued in three sequels. Another well-known role in Joel Rinne is in the 1970 film ''Päämaja'', directed by Matti Kassila, in which Rinne interprets in the role of Marshal Mannerheim. Joel Rinne also appeared on the radio. In the 1960's Finnish-language audio drama version of ''Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox'' ("Good Evening, My Name Is Cox"), he played the title character, the adventurer Paul Cox. In the ''Paul Temple'' audio drama series, he was also in the title role. Joel Rinne was married twice. His first wife was actor Rosi Helminen (1896–1964) and his second Saga Rikberg (1908–1983). Rinne were three daughters: Saara Liisa, Kirsti and Lena, of whom Kirsti died as a child. The marriage with Helminen in 1924 ende ...
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Tarmo Manni
Tarmo Manni (30 July 1921, in Saarijärvi – 24 September 1999, in Helsinki) was a Finnish actor. He worked for the Finnish National Theatre 41 years of his 44-year career and appeared in 65 films between 1944 and 2000. Manni was known as a flamboyant persona, on and off stage. However, in his final theatre performance, he just sat in a chair for an hour, listening to Gustav Mahler's First Symphony. Selected filmography *''Dynamiittityttö'' (1944) *'' Ihmiset suviyössä'' (1948) *''Prinsessa Ruusunen'' (1949) *''Gabriel, Come Back'' (1951) *''Omena putoaa'' (1952) *''April's Coming ''April's Coming'' (Finnish: ''Huhtikuu tulee'') is a 1953 Finnish comedy film directed by Valentin Vaala and starring Ossi Elstelä, Tuija Halonen and Kurt Ingvall.Qvist & von Bagh p.257 Cast * Ossi Elstelä as Subeditor * Tuija Halonen as Journa ...'' (1953) *''Kun on tunteet'' (1954) *'' The Unknown Soldier'' (1955) *'' Punainen viiva'' (1959) *''Koko kaupungin Vinski'' (1969) *''Da Capo'' ( ...
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Risto Orko
Risto Orko (born Risto Eliel William Nylund; 15 September 1899 – 29 September 2001) was a Finnish film producer and director. Orko was born in Rauma. With a career of over 60 years at the film studio Suomi-Filmi, he rose to be head of production and chief director in the 1930s. He became its CEO in 1945. In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Suomi-Filmi produced hundreds of films and numerous shorts. In the years 1933–43, Orko directed many films, including two (''Aktivistit'' and ''Jääkärin morsian''), which were banned for being "overly patriotic". He had a joint cooperation with the German film industry during World War II. Orko also directed a Finnish-Soviet co-production, released into the American market with subtitles, entitled ''The Day the Earth Froze'' in 1959. Death His death in Helsinki, aged 102, was received with great sadness in his native Finland; thereafter he became known as the "last Finnish Film Tycoon". Selected filmography * ''Sampo'' (1959) * ''Onne ...
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Hilkka Kinnunen
Hilkka Terttu Annikki Kinnunen (born 19 March 1925) is a Finnish actress and opera singer. She led the Operettiteatteri from 1959 until 1996 and often even acted as a prima donna performing leading roles. Life and career Kinnunen began her studies in the first annual course of the Suomen Teatterikoulu during the Continuation War in 1943. Before founding the Operettiteatteri, she worked at, among others, the Äänislinna Theater, Helsingin Työväenteatteri and Kansanteatteri. Before the Operettiteatteri, she also appeared in several domestic films, among which is ''April's Coming'' from 1953. Aino Kukkonen edited the book ''Prima-Donna'' about Kinnunen's life in connection with her 80th birthday in 2005, and the story of Hilkka Kinnunen's youth was told in Lotta-Sofia Saahko's book ''Kahvia ja karjalanpiirakoita'', published in 2021. In 2010, the President of the Republic, Tarja Halonen, awarded theater director Hilkka Kinnunen the title of theater councilor ( fi, teatterineuvo ...
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