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Morgenrot (1933)
Ufa co-operated with Finnish Army
Outdoor U-Boat scenes in Morgenrot were filmed in Helsinki, Finland in co-operation with Finnish Army. Finland was the only country in Europe to allow Ufa to use her U-Boats for filming.
Liason officer was Heikki Parkkonen, head of filming in Finnish Army and also another member of his staff, photographer Vilho Armas Pentikäinen took part of filming. Parkkonen did actually part of shooting for the film. Later was found that Pentikäinen was spying for Russia. He defected in 1933 to Russia.
Parkkonen and navy commanders Eero Rahola and Akseli Raninen took part of Berlin festivities of film premiere in January 1933.
Lapsuuteni (1967)
Classic piece of television history
"Lapsuuteni" (My Childhood, Finland 1967) is certainly one of the best television film made in Finland in 1960's.
Film is based on the classic autobiographical novel of classic Finnish worker-author Teuvo Pakkala (1862-1925), published in 1885. Pakkala's home town was Oulu in Northern Finland.
Film tells a story of his poor family after the death of father.
First part of the film describes author as a boy (5-7 years), and second about his life when he is 7-9 years. Third part is about his last school years and fourth part concentrates on Finnish Civil War (1918), his father's death and the beginning of his career as an author.
Authors motto was simple: "The most important thing is to win hatred."