''Sensuela'' is a 1973 Finnish drama film directed and written 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 era, Tulio turned to directing and producing in the 1930s. His ...
. The film is based on Tulio's 1946 film ''Rakkauden risti'' which itself was based on ''The Stationmaster'', a short story written by
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...
. ''Sensuela'' was Tulio's final film, and it was met with harsh criticism. Since its release, it has gained a reputation as a campy cult classic and has been called "the weirdest Finnish film ever made". Although the production was finished in 1972, it was not released until a year later and then opened only in selected theatres.
Premise
''Sensuela'' is the story of Laila, a girl from
Lapland, and Hans, a German soldier, who fall in love during the
Continuation War
The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944, as part of World War II.; sv, fortsättningskriget; german: Fortsetzungskrieg. A ...
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Main cast
*Marianne Mardi as Laila Walk
*Mauritz Åkerman as Hans Müller
*Ismo Saario as Pekka
*Ossi Elstelä as Laila's father
*Maria Pertamo as Greta Kujala
Release
''Sensuela'' was the first film to be rated 18 by the
Finnish Board of Film Classification
The Finnish Board of Film Classification ( fi, Valtion elokuvatarkastamo; sv, Statens filmgranskningsbyrå) was an official institution of the Finnish Ministry of Education. From 1946 until the end of year 2011, the VET/SFB was responsible for ...
. After its initial release, Tulio prevented the film's subsequent distribution, and it only became available after his death in 2000.
See also
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''The Hair'' (film)
References
External links
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1973 films
1970s erotic drama films
Finnish erotic drama films
1970s Finnish-language films
English-language Finnish films
Films directed by Teuvo Tulio
Obscenity controversies in film
1973 drama films
Films based on works by Aleksandr Pushkin
1970s English-language films
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