Flame Top

Flame Top (1980)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1980-10-17
  • User Rating: 5.6/10 from 5 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 35min
  • Language: suomi
  • Production Company: P-Kino
  • Production Country: Finland
  • Directors: Pirjo Honkasalo, Pekka Lehto.
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Summary

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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  • 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)
Sound Paul Jyrälä Production Sound Mixer
Directing Pirjo Honkasalo Director
Directing Pekka Lehto Director
Art A. Ksenofontova Production Design
Art Pentti Valkeasuo Production Design
Art Reijo Puttonen Production Design
Production Jaakko Talaskivi Unit Production Manager
Costume & Make-Up Inkeri Terävä Makeup Artist
Sound Heikki Valpola Original Music Composer
Sound Pekka Sirén Sound Effects
Writing Daniel Katz Writer
Writing Pirjo Honkasalo Screenplay
Editing Irma Taina Editor
Sound Lars Klettner Sound Mixer
Writing Maiju Lassila Novel
Sound Antero Honkanen Sound Effects
Directing Jaakko Talaskivi Assistant Director
Camera Kari Sohlberg Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up Päivi Tiura Costume Design
Costume & Make-Up Kristiina Valkeasuo Makeup Designer
Sound Sven Fahlén Sound Mixer
Sound Olli Soinio Sound Effects
Production Claes Olsson Producer

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