Sirkka Sari (born Sirkka Linnea Jahnsson, 1 May 1920 – 30 July 1939) was a

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.Rikas tyttö
" '' Kustannusosakeyhtiö Iltalehti''. May 27, 2008. Retrieved on September 12, 2009. "kun laivanvarustaja Hallin tytär Anni (Sirkka Sari) pelastuu " Sirkka died when she fell down a

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. She was at a party with the rest of the cast and crew of ''

Rikas tyttö Rikas tyttö (English translation - The Rich Girl) is a 1939 Finnish film directed by Valentin Vaala. Full credited cast * Sirkka Sari as Anni Hall * Olavi Reimas as Vilhelm Vinter *Lea Joutseno Lea Ruth Margit Joutseno (formerly Jönsson, 6 N ...

'', her third and last film, while shooting at the Aulanko Hotel in

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; the party had been her idea. She and one of the men in the group went up to the roof of the hotel; on the flat roof, there was a

almost 30 metres high, with a ladder leading up to the top. Sari mistook this chimney for a scenery

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, climbed up, and fell down inside it into a heating

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's furnace, where she died instantly of internal injuries and cardiac arrest. Because of Sari's death, the end of the film had to be altered; the crew shot further away, and so another woman had to replace Sari on these final shots. Sirkka Sari was buried in the churchyard at Perkjärvi in her native East Karelia. Both the church and the cemetery were destroyed in the

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the following year, and the area was thereafter annexed by the

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. Today the territory is part of

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, and attempts to locate her grave since the end of the

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have so far been unsuccessful.

Filmography

*''Niskavuoren naiset'' (1938) *''Sysmäläinen'' (1938) *''

'' (1939)

References

External links

* 1920 births 1939 deaths People from Vyborg District 20th-century Finnish actresses Accidental deaths from falls Accidental deaths in Finland {{Finland-actor-stub