''In the Fields of Dreams'' (Finnish: ''Unelma karjamajalla'') is a 1940 Finnish
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Teuvo Tulio
Theodor Antonius Tugai (23 August 1912 – 8 June 2000), better known as Teuvo Tulio, was a Finnish film director and actor. Beginning his career as an actor at the end of the silent film, silent era, Tulio turned to directing and producing in t ...
and starring
Sirkka Salonen,
Olga Tainio and
Kaarlo Oksanen. It is a remake of the 1933 Swedish film ''
People of Hälsingland
''People of Hälsingland'' (Swedish: ''Hälsingar'') is a 1933 Swedish drama film directed by Ivar Johansson (director), Ivar Johansson and starring Hilda Castegren, Sven Bergvall and Sten Lindgren.Sundholm p.377 It was shot at the Råsunda Studio ...
''.
[Sundholm p.377]
Cast
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Sirkka Salonen as Sirkka Valkama
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Olga Tainio as Lady of Ylitalo
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Kaarlo Oksanen as Ylitalon Aarne
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Kyösti Erämaa as Ylitalon Urho
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Kirsti Hurme as Kirsti Turja
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Aku Peltonen
Aku may refer to:
* Aku, Nigeria, a town in Enugu State
* "Aku" (poem), 1943, by Chairil Anwar
* Aku people of Gambia
* Aku dialect, a dialect of Sierra Leone Krio
* Aku, the main antagonist of the animated series '' Samurai Jack''
* The Hawaii ...
as Matti
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Varma Lahtinen as Aino
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Eino Jurkka as Shopkeeper
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Ida Kallio as Kerttu
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Väinö Kangas as Judge
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Evald Terho
Evald is a masculine given name found primarily in Northern Europe, especially in Denmark, Estonia, Norway and Sweden. It is a cognate of the German given name Ewald and may refer to the following individuals:
* Eevald Äärma (1911–2005), Es ...
as Old gypsy
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Taito Mäkelä as Prosecutor
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Timo Jokinen as Sirkka's son
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Lauri Korpela as Antti
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Veikko Laakso as Jailer
References
Bibliography
* Sundholm, John. ''Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2012.
External links
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1940 films
Finnish drama films
1940 drama films
1940s Finnish-language films
Films directed by Teuvo Tulio
Remakes of Swedish films
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