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Samuli Torssonen (born 12 November 1978) is a Finnish film writer, director, actor and producer, best known as the creator of the viral ''Star Wreck'' sci-fi series. He was a producer and special-effects supervisor of the movie ''Iron Sky''.


Film career

The first Torssonen ''Star Wreck'' film (in 1992) was a computer graphics-oriented short film of space battles, produced by Torssonen himself, but later Torssonen recruited his friends to help him in these productions. One of them was Rudi Airisto, who helped him to add parody aspects to the ''Star Wreck'' films. After four animated short films, Torssonen and his friends released ''Star Wreck V: Lost Contact'' (in 1997). Torssonen's long-lasting dream had been to create the sixth and possibly final episode for Star Wreck list of sagas, saga. At first Torssonen thought that it would only be a 15-minute-long special-effects packaged short film. After Airisto moved to the United Kingdom, UK to study, Torssonen asked Timo Vuorensola to be the director. ''Star Wreck IV½: Weak Performance'' was released (in 2000) and was followed by the feature length conclusion to the series, ''Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning'' (released in 2005). The ''Star Wreck'' series contains quirky Finnish and "Trekkish" humour, with elements parodying both ''Star Trek'' and ''Babylon 5''. Torssonen himself acts in the Star Wreck adventures as main character James B. Pirk (named after the Star Trek character James T. Kirk), captain of the starship C.P.P. Potkustartti (Kickstart). Torssonen and his ''Star Wreck'' movies have been a small cult hit especially in the Finnish science fiction scene, and now also to some extent for the young and internet audiences.


Filmography

Following is a filmography of Samuli Torssonen as a writer/producer. He has made all of his films besides Iron Sky in Finnish language, Finnish, but all are Subtitle (captioning), subtitled in English language, English.


Short films

* ''Star Wreck'' (1992) * ''Star Wreck II: The Old Shit'' (1994) * ''Star Wreck III: Wrath of the Romuclans'' (1995) * ''Star Wreck IV: The Kilpailu'' (1996) * ''Star Wreck V: Lost Contact'' (1997) * ''Star Wreck 4½: Weak Performance'' (2000)


Full-length films

* ''Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning'' (2005) * ''Iron Sky'' (2012)


See also

*List of Finns


References


External links


''Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning''Starwreck.com forums (English and Finnish)IMDb entry
for ''Samuli Torssonen''
IMDb entry
for ''Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning''
''Wreck-a-movie''
The world's first internet studio for collaborative film production. {{DEFAULTSORT:Torssonen, Samuli Living people 1978 births Finnish film directors Finnish film producers Finnish filmmakers Finnish parodists Parody film directors Place of birth missing (living people)