Paavo Kuoppala

Películas

My Calling Card
Shepherd
A kind-hearted chancellor dreams of love with a beauty he meets at dinner.
Taape tähtenä
Backstage man Romppanen
The Song of the Scarlet Flower
Boy
Olavi, a farmer's son, leaves his home after a dispute with his father and leads a life of a womanizing logger.
Stolen Death
Robert's comrade
A thriller set in turn-of-the-century Helsinki, Stolen Death uses elements of German expressionism to tell the story of Finnish resistance fighters smuggling arms to overthrow the Tsarist occupiers of Finland. Tapiovaara stresses the divided loyalties of the Finnish bourgeoisie, torn between preserving their privileged economic position and taking a risky stand for an independent Finland. Stolen Death can be viewed as a thinly disguised protest against the rise of the fascist movement in Finland in the 1930s. Tapiovaara's allegorical indictment of class inequality and the suppression of free speech and political expression, coupled with his death at 28 fighting the Russians in the Winter War of 1939-1940, earned him almost a mythic status in Finland.