Nyrki Tapiovaara, born 10 September 1911 in

Pitäjänmäki Pitäjänmäki (, ) is a district located on the westernmost district of Helsinki, Finland, near the border with Espoo. There are many IT and machine manufacturing companies in the area, especially around the Valimo railway station. Such comp ...

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, died 29 February 1940, was a Finnish film director. He belonged to the

Tulenkantajat Tulenkantajat (″The Flame Bearers″) was a literary group in Finland during the 1920s. Their main task was to find a way to take Finland from so-called backwoods culture to the new, modern European level of literature. They did not consider th ...

group which promoted

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

ideas in Finnish culture. Tapiovaara's film career only lasted four years and resulted in five feature films, but had a lasting effect on Finnish cinema. He died in the

Winter War The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peac ...

Filmography

* ''

Juha Juha is a masculine given name of Finnish origin derived from Johannes (or John in English language contexts). Notable people with the name include: * Juha Alén, Finnish ice hockey player * Juha Gustafsson, Finnish ice hockey player * Juha Ha ...

'' (1937) * ''

The Stolen Death ''The Stolen Death'' () is a 1938 Finnish thriller film directed by Nyrki Tapiovaara. The story is set in the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1904, and is about a group of Finnish activists in Helsinki who develop into a revolutionary force for Finnish ...

'' (''Varastettu kuolema'') (1938) * '' Kaksi Vihtoria'' (''Two Henpecked Husbands'') (1939) * '' Mr. Lahtinen Takes French Leave'' (''Herra Lahtinen lähtee lipettiin'') (1939) * '' One Man's Fate'' (''Miehen tie'') (1940)

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* 1911 births 1940 deaths Finnish film directors Finnish military personnel killed in World War II Film people from Helsinki 20th-century Finnish screenwriters {{Finland-film-director-stub