Esko Elstelä (15 November 1931 – 30 September 2007) was a Finnish

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

and

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. His 1964 film '' Onnelliset leikit'' was entered into the

4th Moscow International Film Festival The 4th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1965. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film ''War and Peace (film series), War and Peace'' directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and the Hungarian film ''Twenty Hours'' di ...

. Elstelä worked as a director at the

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from 1974 to 1994. He also translated many plays into Finnish.

Selected filmography

* '' Onnelliset leikit'' (1964)

References

External links

* 1931 births 2007 deaths People from Pori Finnish film directors 20th-century Finnish screenwriters {{Finland-film-director-stub