''The Diary of a Worker'' ( fi, Työmiehen päiväkirja, and also released as ''Not by Bread Alone'') is a 1967 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

Risto Jarva Risto Antero Jarva (15 July 1934 – 16 December 1977) was a Finnish filmmaker. Jarva usually approached his long films and short documentary films from some social problem and from one or more possible ways to solve it. Such problems included t ...

. It was entered into the

5th Moscow International Film Festival The 5th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1967. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film '' The Journalist'', directed by Sergei Gerasimov and the Hungarian film ''Father'', directed by István Szabó. The fe ...

Cast

Elina Salo Aino Elina Salo (born 9 March 1936 in Sipoo, Finland) is a Finnish film, theatre and television actress who has also done work in radio as a voice actor in children’s programming. In her career that began in 1956, Salo has appeared in over 50 fi ...

as Ritva Vehoniemi * Paul Osipow as Juhani Vehoniemi * Titta Karakorpi as Laura *

Pentti Irjala Pentti Irjala (23 September 1911 – 25 June 1982) was a Finnish actor. Career Since 1959, Irjala worked for the Finnish National Theatre. He appeared in over a hundred films, making him the actor with one of the longest careers in Finnish film ...

as Ritva's uncle *

Matti Ruohola Matti Santeri Ruohola (12 June 1940 – 16 February 2014http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2014030318091508_uu.shtml Iltalehti: Muumipapan ääni Matti Ruohola kuoli ) was a Finnish actor and comedian. Ruohola began acting as early as 1965 and has ...

as Erik * Heikki Hämäläinen as Matti *

Irma Seikkula Irma Seikkula (14 May 1914 – 8 July 2001) was a Finnish actress. She appeared in 74 films and television shows between 1937 and 1996. She starred in the film '' Miriam'', which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. Selec ...

as Hilda - uncle's wife *

Pertti Lumirae Pertti is a Finnish masculine given name.http://verkkopalvelu.vrk.fi/Nimipalvelu/default.asp?L=1 nimipalvelu Notable people *Pertti Ahlqvist, blues musician *Pertti Haikonen, footballer *Pertti Hasanen, ice hockey goalkeeper *Pertti Honkanen, vo ...

as Raimo * Marja Korhonen as Ritva's boss *

Kullervo Kalske Kullervo () is an ill-fated character in the ''Kalevala'', the Finnish national epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot. Growing up in the aftermath of the massacre of his entire tribe, he comes to realise that the same people who had brought him up, t ...

as Foreman in Helsinki *

Ritva Holmberg Ritva may refer to: * Yom Tov Asevilli Yom Tov ben Abraham of Seville ( 1260 – 1320; also Asevilli, Assevilli, Ashbili) commonly known by the Hebrew acronym Ritva, ( he, ריטב"א) was a medieval rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva of S ...

as Matti's wife *

Richard Ahlqvist Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

as Karl *

Markku Salo Markku is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Markku Alén (born 1951), Finnish former rally and race car driver * Markku Aro (born 1950), Finnish singer who performed on Eurovision contest in 1971 * Markku Huhtamo (born 1946), Fi ...

as Juhani's Father * Aino Lehtimäki as Ritva's Mother

References

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* 1967 films 1967 drama films Finnish drama films 1960s Finnish-language films Finnish black-and-white films {{Finland-film-stub