Antti Vilho Olavi Litja (21 February 1938 – 13 July 2022) was a Finnish actor.
Litja made over 60 film and television appearances since 1959. A prominent figure in Finnish film in the 1970s and 1980s, since the mid-1990s he mostly appeared on television.
Litja played the main character in the 1977 film ''
The Year of the Hare'' about a Finnish man from
Helsinki
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who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Year of the Hare'' (1977)
* ''
Wonderman'' (1979)
* ''
The Solar Wind'' (1980)
* ''
That Kiljunen Family'' (1981)
* ''
The Clan – Tale of the Frogs'' (1984)
* ''
Farewell, Mr. President'' (1987)
* ''
The Glory and Misery of Human Life
''The Glory and Misery of Human Life'' () is a 1988 Finnish drama film directed and written by Matti Kassila starring Lasse Pöysti, Liisamaija Laaksonen and Tuula Nyman. It is based on the novel by F.E. Sillanpää.
The film is Jasper Pääkkö ...
'' (1988)
* ''
A Charming Mass Suicide'' (2000)
* ''
Princess
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'' (2010)
* ''
The Grump'' (2014)
References
External links
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1938 births
2022 deaths
People from Kamennogorsk
Finnish male film actors
Finnish male television actors
20th-century Finnish male actors
21st-century Finnish male actors
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