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Developed by Osama Mohamed

1980

Drama

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, working as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics, he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as a result, had to run back to Finland to hide. Once established in the comparative safety of a small village, he taught school in order to support his real vocation as a writer. Always living on the edge of poverty, if not square in the middle of it, Lassila continues to avoid public contact - he keeps his identity low-key and camoflages it by publishing under a variety of pseudonyms.

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Released

Country : FI

Original language : fi

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| Movie Cast

Asko Sarkola

Asko Sarkola

Writer Algot Lassila, aka Maiju Lassila, aka Irmari Rantamala

Rea Mauranen

Rea Mauranen

Olga Esempio

Esko Salminen

Esko Salminen

Arwid

Yuri Rodionov

Yuri Rodionov

Rawitz

Galina Galtseva

Galina Galtseva

Magda

Matti Oravisto

Matti Oravisto

Commandant Carl von Wendt

Aleksandr Zakharov

Aleksandr Zakharov

Von Plehwe

Vadim Mikheyenko

Vadim Mikheyenko

Terrorist

German Lupekin

German Lupekin

General Porunov

Elvi Saarnio

Elvi Saarnio

Olga Esempio in prologue (voice)

Yrjö Tähtelä

Yrjö Tähtelä

Narrator (voice)

Eeva-Kaarina Volanen

Eeva-Kaarina Volanen

(voice)

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