Flame Top by Pirjo Honkasalo
5.60
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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Cast
Asko Sarkola as Writer Algot Lassila, aka Maiju Lassila, aka Irmari Rantamala
Rea Mauranen as Olga Esempio
Kari Franck as Gunnar Avanto
Ari Suonsuu as Kalle
Ritva Juhanto as Kurttuska
Esko Salminen as Arwid
Heikki Alho as Pikku-Pouvali
Tuomo Railo as Sulo Esempio
Yuri Rodionov as Rawitz
Galina Galtseva as Magda
Soli Labbart as Maria Lassila
Pirkka Karskela as Young Algot
Markku Blomqvist as Lundberg
Esa Suvilehto as Pöntinen
Matti Oravisto as Commandant Carl von Wendt
Gunvor Sandkvist as Anna Belostotskaja
Pentti Kotkaniemi as Russian Army Captain
Aleksandr Zakharov as Von Plehwe
Vadim Mikheyenko as Terrorist
Antero Harpf as Rebel officer
German Lupekin as General Porunov
Esko Pesonen as Chief editor
Arno Virtanen as Circus manager
Vitali Iljin-Shapiro as Terrorist
Jan Kulik as Terrorist
Toivo Tuomainen as Oskari Skoff
Elvi Saarnio as Olga Esempio in prologue (voice)
Yrjö Tähtelä as Narrator (voice)
Eeva-Kaarina Volanen as (voice)
Mauno Blomqvist as Ploughman (uncredited)
Mauri Front as News photographer (uncredited)
Pentti Louko as Orthodox priest (uncredited)
Esko Salmesvirta as Algot's father (uncredited)
Rauha Wolska as Restaurant hostess (uncredited)
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