01 Jan 1985
The Woman with the Carbuncle Stones
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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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Asko Sarkola Writer Algot Lassila, aka Maiju Lassila, aka Irmari Rantamala
Rea Mauranen Olga Esempio
Kari Franck Gunnar Avanto
Ari Suonsuu Kalle
Ritva Juhanto Kurttuska
Esko Salminen Arwid
Tuomo Railo Sulo Esempio
Юрий Родионов Rawitz
Galina Galtseva Magda
Soli Labbart Maria Lassila
Pirkka Karskela Young Algot
Markku Blomqvist Lundberg
Esa Suvilehto Pöntinen
Matti Oravisto Commandant Carl von Wendt
Gunvor Sandkvist Anna Belostotskaja
Александр Захаров Von Plehwe
Vadim Mikheyenko Terrorist
Antero Harpf Rebel officer
Герман Лупекин General Porunov
Esko Pesonen Chief editor
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