Jack Witikka

Jack Witikka

Birth : 1916-12-20, Helsinki, Finland

Death : 2002-01-28

History

Jack Witikka was born on December 20, 1916 in Helsinki, Finland as Jack Evert Jakobsson. He was a director and writer, known for The Doll Merchant (1955), Little Presents (1961) and Aila, Pohjolan tytär (1951). He was married to Tea Ista and Lilli Anita Soini. He died on January 28, 2002 in Helsinki.

Profile

Jack Witikka

Movies

Sign of the Beast
Eversti
Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
Blue-Eyed Helsinki
Director
A boat trip in the Helsinki archipelago: images of water, light and people on the cruise. The same people are met in the city in different situations: at work, with their family, in conversations with a circle of friends, meditating and figuring out their duties. Work and aspirations are important and encouraging to them. They all seem to have something personal to say about their time, their views and their imaginations.
Pikku Pietarin piha
Director
This simple, unsophisticated tale by Finnish director and writer Jack Witikka is geared toward the younger set, whatever their age. It is a standard melodrama with a touch of fantasy, centered on events in a courtyard in a small village. A little orphan boy (Tuukka Tanner) is the focus of attnetion, as well as his stepmother (Elsa Turakainen) whose special qualities engender a certain mystery around her person -- and hint at magical powers.
Iloinen Linnanmäki
Director
Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.
Virtaset ja Lahtiset
Director
Two upstart families compete while trying to overcome the generation cap with their children.
Suuri sävelparaati
Director
A Man from This Star
Director
Office clerk Eero Koskinen prefers to spend his nights drinking and reminiscing the war with his friends, instead of taking care of his wife and two children. A two-week drinking spree gets him fired, and a new job is not easy to find because of his reputation. He goes to a rehab centre in the countryside for a couple of weeks, but with no permanent result. Meanwhile, his wife has to get a job and is employed by her old sweetheart, now a recently divorced successful businessman.
Äidittömät
Screenplay
Äidittömät
Director
Silja - nuorena nukkunut
Director
In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a number of bachelors, ranging from simple farmhand Väinö to sophisticated young student Armas whom she meets when working for a charming old professor. However, Silja's health starts to deteriorate, and when the Finnish Civil War breaks up in 1918, she is inadvertently involved in a small incident after which her loyalties are questioned by both the Reds and the Whites.
The Doll Merchant
(uncredited)
A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.
The Doll Merchant
Screenplay
A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.
The Doll Merchant
Director
A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.
Mä oksalla ylimmällä
Screenplay
A fictional love story between famous composer Gabriel Linsén and opera singer Maria Sawina in 19th century Finland.
Mä oksalla ylimmällä
(uncredited)
A fictional love story between famous composer Gabriel Linsén and opera singer Maria Sawina in 19th century Finland.
Mä oksalla ylimmällä
Director
A fictional love story between famous composer Gabriel Linsén and opera singer Maria Sawina in 19th century Finland.
Pessi and Illusia
Director
The only full-length Finnish ballet film, a fable about a goblin and a fairy that become fast friends.
Arctic Fury
Writer
A tragedy told by an American visiting Lapland about Aila, daughter of a reindeer herder, who falls in love with Reino, a reindeer thief.
Arctic Fury
Director
A tragedy told by an American visiting Lapland about Aila, daughter of a reindeer herder, who falls in love with Reino, a reindeer thief.