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Flame Top (1980)

ALL 10/17/1980 (fi) Drama 155 Min
  • Release
    10/17/1980
  • Production
    P-Kino
  • Rotten tomato
    53%
  • Original title
    Tulipää
  • Original language
    fi
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  2. Story

  3. Irma Taina

    Editor

  4. Claes Olsson

    Producer



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  1. Asko Sarkola

    Writer Algot Lassila, aka Maiju Lassila, aka Irmari Rantamala

  2. Rea Mauranen

    Olga Esempio

  3. Kari Franck

    Gunnar Avanto

  4. Ari Suonsuu

    Kalle

  5. Ritva Juhanto

    Kurttuska

  6. Esko Salminen

    Arwid

  7. Heikki Alho

    Pikku-Pouvali

  8. Tuomo Railo

    Sulo Esempio

  9. Yuri Rodionov

    Rawitz

  10. Galina Galtseva

    Magda

  11. Soli Labbart

    Maria Lassila

  12. Pirkka Karskela

    Young Algot

  13. Markku Blomqvist

    Lundberg

  14. Esa Suvilehto

    Pöntinen

  15. Matti Oravisto

    Commandant Carl von Wendt

  16. Gunvor Sandkvist

    Anna Belostotskaja

  17. Pentti Kotkaniemi

    Russian Army Captain

  18. Aleksandr Zakharov

    Von Plehwe

  19. Vadim Mikheyenko

    Terrorist

  20. Antero Harpf

    Rebel officer

  21. German Lupekin

    General Porunov

  22. Esko Pesonen

    Chief editor

  23. Arno Virtanen

    Circus manager

  24. Vitali Iljin-Shapiro

    Terrorist

  25. Jan Kulik

    Terrorist

  26. Toivo Tuomainen

    Oskari Skoff

  27. Elvi Saarnio

    Olga Esempio in prologue (voice)

  28. Yrjö Tähtelä

    Narrator (voice)

  29. Eeva-Kaarina Volanen

    (voice)

  30. Mauno Blomqvist

    Ploughman (uncredited)

  31. Mauri Front

    News photographer (uncredited)

  32. Pentti Louko

    Orthodox priest (uncredited)

  33. Esko Salmesvirta

    Algot's father (uncredited)

  34. Rauha Wolska

    Restaurant hostess (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 34 , Crews : 23

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Flame Top (1980) 155 Min

ALL 10/17/1980 (fi)
Drama
  • Release 10/17/1980
  • Production
    P-Kino
  • Original title Tulipää
  • fi
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Pirjo Honkasalo, Pekka Lehto

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Irma Taina

    Editor

  4. Claes Olsson

    Producer



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