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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 as Lea * Hannes Häyrinen as Markus Hall *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. Select ... as Irja Rantanen *Turo Kartto as Baron Allan Ahlfeldt *Anni Aitto as Mrs. Hall *Arvi Tuomi as Alfred Hall * Elsa Rantalainen as Mrs. Karila *Eija Karipää as Edla Lundström (as Eija Londén) *Uolevi Räsänen as Lasse *Tuulikki Schreck as Auroora Rantanen Production The film is remembered today for being the last film starring Sirkka Sari, due to her death at a party for the cast and crew of the film. Due to Sari's death, another actress replaced her for the few remaining scenes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentin Vaala
Valentin Vaala (born Valentin Yakovich Ivanoff, Russian: Валентин Якович Иванов; 13 October 1909 in Helsinki – 21 November 1976 in Helsinki) was a Finnish film director, screenwriter and film editor. His career spanned several decades, from 1929 to 1973, and has been called one of the most significant, in both quality and popularity, in the history of Finnish cinema.Laine, Lukkarila, Seitajärvi, p. 45 Early career Valentin Vaala was born to Russian parents Jakov Ivanov (Ivanoff), a milliner, and Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Jeminova. The couple moved from Saint Petersburg to Helsinki prior to Vaala's birth. The family spoke Russian at home, and Valentin attended school at Helsinki's Russian-language Tabunov School. After leaving school, he worked as an illustrator for the daily newspaper '' Uusi Suomi'' from 1926 until 1929. As a teenager, Vaala befriended Theodor Tugai – who later became known as a film director and actor under the name Teuvo Tulio – and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kersti Bergroth
Kersti Solveig Bergroth (24 January 1886 – 24 January 1975) was a Finnish author and playwright. Career Bergroth was known to have been linguistically gifted. She wrote in Swedish until 1920, translated English and French literature to Finnish and also spoke German. She is best remembered for having written popular plays ''Anu ja Mikko'' and ''Kuparsaare Antti'' using a Karelian dialect. During her career, she released around 70 books, including novels, memoirs, children's stories and poems. Bergroth was also noted for collaborating five times with film director Valentin Vaala. Using the pseudonym Tet, she wrote the film scripts for ''Morsian yllättää'' (1941), ''Tositarkoituksella'' (1943), ''Dynamiittityttö'' (1944), ''Vuokrasulhanen'' (1945) and ''Viikon tyttö'' (1946). All of those films were light-hearted comedies starring the actress Lea Joutseno. Later life The post-war generation of new authors did not appreciate Kersti Bergroth's work, and she received negati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirkka Sari
Sirkka Sari (born Sirkka Linnea Jahnsson, 1 May 1920 – 30 July 1939) was a Finland, Finnish actress. " ''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 chimney. She was at a party with the rest of the cast and crew of ''Rikas tyttö'', her third and last film, while shooting at the Aulanko Hotel in Hämeenlinna; 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 chimney almost 30 metres high, with a ladder leading up to the top. Sari mistook this chimney for a scenery balcony, climbed up, and fell down inside it into a heating boiler's furnace, where she died instantly of internal injuries and cardiac arrest. Beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olavi Reimas
Olavi Reimas (born Unto Kalervo Eskola; 14 March 1914 − 9 June 1995) was a Finnish actor. He appeared in 19 films between 1938−1958. Most of them were directed by Valentin Vaala. Filmography *''Sysmäläinen'' (1938) *''Vihreä kulta'' (1939) *''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 as Lea * Hannes Häyrinen as Markus Hall *Irma Se ...'' (1939) *''Jumalan myrsky'' (1940) *''Morsian yllättää'' (1941) *''Antreas ja syntinen Jolanda'' (1941) *''Varaventtiili'' (1942) *''Neljä naista'' (1942) *''Tositarkoituksella'' (1943) *''Syntynyt terve tyttö'' (1943) *''Keinumorsian'' (1943) *''Suomisen Olli rakastuu'' (1944) *''Miesmalli'' (1944) *''Vain sinulle'' (1945) *''En ole kreivitär'' (1945) *''Synnin jäljet'' (1946) *''Maaret − tunturien tyttö'' (1947) *''Sinut minä tahdon'' (1949) *''Hyvää päivä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea Joutseno
Lea Ruth Margit Joutseno (formerly Jönsson, 6 November 1910, Helsinki – 20 June 1977) was a Finnish actress, screenwriter and a translator. She became known as a blonde comedian in the 1940s after appearing in several Valentin Vaala's films. Along with Helena Kara and Regina Linnanheimo Axa Regina Elisabeth Linnanheimo (until 1924 Leino, since 1948 Regina Mörner, 7 September 1915, Helsinki – 24 January 1995) was a Finnish actress and screenwriter. Her sister Rakel Linnanheimo (1908–2004) was also an actress. Linnanheimo w ..., Joutseno was one of the few Finnish film stars who did not have a theatrical background. Film career Lea Joutseno played the female lead in nine films between 1941–1948. Most of them were comedies, and except for two, directed by Valentin Vaala. In 1948, Joutseno co-wrote the film ''Ihmiset suviyössä (film), Ihmiset suviyössä'' with Vaala, a work for which they received a Jussi Award. She had previously received one Jussi Award for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suomi-Filmi
Suomi-Filmi, lit. ''Finland-Film'', is a Finnish film production and distribution company established in 1919 by Erkki Karu. Suomi-Filmi produced around 160 feature-length films and for most of its history was one of the two most important film companies in the country, along with Suomen Filmiteollisuus. The company was home for several noted Finnish film directors, mainly its founder Erkki Karu, and the later two main directors Risto Orko and Valentin Vaala. After the 'Golden Age' of Finnish cinema ended, the company's film production rate slowed down, and eventually ended with the 1980 film '' Tulitikkuja lainaamassa''. The company still exists, but is mainly only active in the home video distribution of their catalogue of titles. Early years The company was founded as Suomen Filmikuvaamo on December 20, 1919, by Erkki Karu, but took its present name soon after, in 1921. Suomi-Filmi had a rocky start and took until May 1920 to complete its first short film, ''Vapaussodan pää ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher ( middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio. Established in 1967 as Greenwood Press, Inc. and based in Westport, Connecticut, GPG publishes reference works under its Greenwood Press imprint, and scholarly, professional, and general interest books under its related imprint, Praeger Publishers (). Also part of GPG is Libraries Unlimited, which publishes professional works for librarians and teachers. History 1967–1999 The company was founded as Greenwood Press, Inc. in 1967 by Harold Mason, a librarian and antiquarian bookseller, and Harold Schwartz who had a background in trade publishing. Based in Greenwood, New York, the company initially focused on reprinting out-of-print works, particularly titles listed in the American Library Association's first edition of ''Books for College Libraries'' (1967), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannes Häyrinen
Hannes "Hanski" Häyrinen (originally Johan Erik Högdahl, 25 April 1914 − 21 December 1991) was a Finnish actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre manager. Theatrical career Hannes Häyrinen worked for several theatres during his career. From 1937 to 1939 he worked in Helsinki, and then in Kotka, Tampere and Lahti. In addition to acting, he also served as a theatre manager in Kotka City Theatre. Häyrinen became a freelance actor in 1957 and returned to Helsinki. He worked for Helsinki City Theatre from 1959 until 1975 when he was signed to the Finnish National Theatre. There he remained until his retirement in 1981. Film career Häyrinen was also a noted actor in films. He made memorable appearances in such films as ''Hätävara'' (1939), ''Rikas tyttö'' (1939) and ''Viimeinen vieras'' (1941) which was his first film as a leading actor. One of Häyrinen's best remembered performances is the role of a radio reporter Toivo Teräsvuori in a Matti Kassila film ''Radio tek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Selected filmography * '' Juha'' (1937) * '' Rikas tyttö'' (1938) * ''Miriam'' (1957) * ''Little Presents ''Little Presents'' ( fi, Pikku Pietarin piha) is a 1961 Finnish drama film directed by Jack Witikka. It was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Leif Aaltonen * Aapeli - God (voice) (as Simo Puupponen) * Kaarlo Hal ...'' (1961) * '' The Diary of a Worker'' (1967) References External links * 1914 births 2001 deaths Actresses from Helsinki People from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish film actresses Finnish television actresses {{Finland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Rantalainen
Elsa Emilia Rantalainen (1901–1988) was a Finnish actress. She was most active as an actress between 1933 and 1951. From 1931 until 1941 she was married to Wäinö Aaltonen. In 1954, she was awarded the Pro Finlandia The Order of the Lion of Finland ( fi, Suomen Leijonan ritarikunta; sv, Finlands Lejons orden) is one of three official orders in Finland, along with the Order of the Cross of Liberty and the Order of the White Rose of Finland. The President o ... award. She was a member of and performer at the Raittiusyhdistys Koitto. Works *1943, '' Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi'' *1943, '' Tuomari Martta'' References External links 1901 births 1988 deaths Actresses from Tampere People from Häme Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) 20th-century Finnish actresses Recipients of the Order of the Lion of Finland {{Finland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Films
The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history. The ten Best Picture-nominated films that year include classics in multiple genres. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1939 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events Film historians often rate 1939 as "the greatest year in the history of Hollywood". Hollywood films produced in Southern California were at the height of their Golden Age (in spite of many cheaply made or undistinguished films also being produced, something to be expected with any year in commercial cinema), and during 1939 there are the premieres of an outstandingly large number of exceptional motion pictures, many of which become honored as all-time classic films. ** June 10 – MGM's first successful animated character, Barney Bear, made his debut in '' The Bear That Couldn't Sleep''. ** August 15 – ''The Wizard of Oz'' premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. ** October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
