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Toivelauluja (1961)
Directed by Ville Salminen
Music · 1h 20m
A film centered around a popular Finnish song book. Young lovers Pirkko and Pekka break off their engagement at the end of an evening spent at a dance restaurant. At home, Pirkko finds a songbook in her room, whose songs turn into musical scenes. The night watchman carries the songbook with him, and it ends up, via a sad prostitute, a police officer, and a night shelter resident, with Pekka, who is waiting for Pirkko's forgiveness and comes to pick up his fiancée.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Ville Salminen
- Writer
- Reino Helismaa
- Director of Photography
- Osmo Harkimo
- Original Music Composer
- Toivo Kärki
- Editor
- Elmer Lahti
Details
- Release date
- 1961-03-23
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- FI
- Spoken languages
- Finnish
- Countries
- Finland
- Production
- Suomen Filmiteollisuus
Pirkko Mannola
Esko Salminen
Leif Wager
Leni Katajakoski
Pentti Irjala
Jalmari Rinne
Einari Ketola
Pentti Viljanen
Henny Valjus