Aarne Tarkas

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Aarne Tarkas (until 1947 Saastamoinen, 19 December 1923 – 7 October 1976) was a Finnish film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Tarkas started his career as a screenwriter for Matti Kassila film Radio tekee murron (1951) for which they shared a Jussi Award. In 1952, he founded a production company Junior-Filmi, which produced internationally recognized Erik Blomberg film Valkoinen peura. Tarkas was known as a very fast writer who, during his most productive years, finished up to five movies per year. All in all, Tarkas wrote 35 scripts and directed 33 feature films. During his final years, he worked mostly for television. Aarne Tarkas died of a heart failure at the age of 52.

19-12-1923

Birthday

Sagittarius

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Аарне Таркас

Also known as (male)

Place of Birth

19-12-1923

Birthday

Sagittarius

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Aarne Saastamoinen

Also Known As (male)

Place of Birth

Popular works

Media

Creative career

actor

16 Works

producer

2 Works

director

71 Works

writer

33 Works

other

3 Works

Villin Pohjolan salattu laakso

The Vorna brothers search for a hidden valley and its treasures.

4.0

Year:

1963

Villin Pohjolan kulta

A western set in the "Wild North".

4.5

Year:

1963

Naiset, jotka minulle annoit

1.0

Year:

1962

Hän varasti elämän

A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves to a small rural village to start a new life with a new name and his new money, but finds that it's harder to escape his past than he thought it would be.

5.7

Year:

1962

Älä nuolase…

5.7

Year:

1962

Tyttö ja hattu

6.2

Year:

1961

Tähtisumua

2.0

Year:

1961

Opettajatar seikkailee

An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagrin. She is intent on keeping the painting out of circulation by stealing it from an art gallery, but the aftermath turns out to be more complex than she anticipated, leading Leena to become involved in various misunderstandings featuring a gang of criminals, inept cops and false murder charges among other things.

4.8

Year:

1960

Nina ja Erik

3.0

Year:

1960

Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina

4.2

Year:

1959

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen

Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.

5.0

Year:

1959

Herra sotaministeri

0.0

Year:

1957

Villi Pohjola

A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.

6.7

Year:

1955

Olemme kaikki syyllisiä

A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He starts to date a girl with fateful consequences.

7.5

Year:

1954

The White Reindeer

A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.

6.6

Year:

1952

Radio tekee murron

Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book their heist to coincide. Teräsvuori gets caught but escapes from police custody to start his private investigations together with female radio colleague Eila.

6.7

Year:

1951