Jussi Niilekselä

Jussi Niilekselä

Birth : 1950-08-22, Pukkila, Finland

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Jussi Niilekselä

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Taksirengit
Writer
Finnish-Estonian short film.
Taksirengit
Director
Finnish-Estonian short film.
Entäs nyt, Niskavuori?
Assistant Director
A Finnish TV movie based on a play by Hella Wuolijoki from 1953.
Entäs nyt, Niskavuori?
Writer
A Finnish TV movie based on a play by Hella Wuolijoki from 1953.
Niskavuoren Heta
Screenplay
TV movie from 1987.
Niskavuoren nuori emäntä
Assistant Director
TV movie from 1987. Based on Hella Wuolijoki's play of the same name from 1940.
Niskavuoren nuori emäntä
Writer
TV movie from 1987. Based on Hella Wuolijoki's play of the same name from 1940.
Milka: A Film About Taboos
Screenplay
Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to marry Ojanen, and her daughter's pregnancy turns their lives around. Set in the Lapp country of northern Finland, the scenery is breathtaking, made even more so by the isolation of the region. A sense of natural solitude is underscored by a slow-moving dialogue interspersed with long silences, and the connection between nature and the dialogue is underscored as the young Milka recites poetry while out in the countryside. The fate of Milka and her mother, however, is connected to the decision that Ojanen makes at the end.
Päivä ennen
Pajatsomies Pietikäinen
Päivä ennen
Writer