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Featuring:
Toini Vartiainen, Tauno Palo, Reino Valkama
Written by:
Usko Kemppi
Valentin Vaala
Mika Waltari
Directed by:
Valentin Vaala
Release Date:
September 19, 1952
Original Title:
Omena putoaa…
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
Suomi-Filmi
Production Countries:
Finland
Ratings / Certifications:
FI: K-16
Runtime: 97
Mika Waltari's influence on Finnish film can be seen almost as big as Väinö Linna's. When Linna's huge novels were translated to great spectacles, Waltari's brilliant stories got their form in a smaller, but definitely not in any worse, result.In the beginning one can see a man walking a dog. The man is of course the writer of this movie and that's where Vaala makes us realize how he will be very faithful to his good friend's writing - and good as that! So the film fallows very much the original script and is very much a satire from Waltari more than other creators. "Omena putoaa" criticizes very smartly the world where everyone cheats everyone and morality won't be found nowhere but from books. But that's just the way it works today, so what?
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Director:
Valentin Vaala
Director of Photography:
Eino Heino
Editor:
Valentin Vaala
Makeup Artist:
Aarne Kuokkanen
Original Music Composer:
Einar Englund
Producer:
Risto Orko
Production Design:
Tapio Vilpponen
Screenplay:
Mika Waltari
Usko Kemppi
Valentin Vaala
Sound:
Harald Koivikko
Theatre Play:
Mika Waltari
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