T.J. Särkkä
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 10 (Director), 7 (Writer)
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It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent by the housing commission. Abel and Jussi Siimes, two devoted haters of women, need to find a subtenant quickly to avoid the possibility of the housing commission sending a woman, God forbid it, to live with them. Abel's acquaintance, an assessor, recommends his nephew Kaino as the perfect choice. Of course, the nephew is a niece... (imdb)
Businessman involved in shady deals hires a lookalike to take his place.
Milkmaid Hilja is being wooed by young artist Yrjö and jealous farmhand Kalevi.
Midsummer's Eve celebrated in Kankkula, with radio reporter coming to interview old master of Tippavaara.
St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him. So, that's when the film really starts......
Tauno Palo is an artist who bases a painting for a revealing lingerie ad on a photo of a girl he had found torn from a magazine, not knowing that the girl is in fact the daughter of the Finnish minister of finance. A scandal is about to erupt, and the artist is given 48 hours to find a strikingly similar-looking female model who could serve as his alibi. The minister's daughter decides to fool the artist by pretending to be a lowly girl of the streets, whom the artist then recruits as his model.
The drama directed by Toivo Särkä and Yrjö Norta is based on Eino Railo's novel of the same name. In the film adaptation, set in 1930s Ostrobothnia, the Ylitalo sisters live a summer full of love. Rampant but cheerful Eliina (Ansa Ikonen) likes the high school student Yrjö (Jorma Nortimo), while the heart of the divine Johanna (Ester Toivonen) beats for childhood friend Huhdan Aksel (Eino Kaipainen).