The Wild North (1955 film)
| The Wild North | |
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Original Finnish film poster. | |
| Directed by | Aarne Tarkas |
| Written by | Aarne Tarkas |
| Produced by | Mauno Mäkelä |
| Starring | Tapio Rautavaara Elina Pohjanpää Matti Oravisto Aino-Maija Tikkanen |
| Cinematography | Esko Nevalainen |
| Edited by | Kauko Vuorensola |
| Music by | Harry Bergström |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | Finland |
| Language | Finnish |
| Budget | FIM 19 million[a][1] |
The Wild North (Finnish: Villi Pohjola) is a 1955 Finnish Western comedy adventure film written and directed by Aarne Tarkas.[2] The film is starring by Tapio Rautavaara and Elina Pohjanpää.[1]
The film was not a box office success, generating losses of four million Finnish marks,[b] and the film's reception was also mixed.[1] However, the film received two sequels in 1963: Gold from the Wild North and The Secret Valley in the Wild North.[1][2]
Plot
The time of the events is not specified in the film and the events are said to take place in the fictional town of Utopila in the Wild North, a place that "cannot be found on maps and encyclopedias."[1] Karin Turkka, searching for the murderer of her geologist father and a map of a lost gold deposit, arrives in Utopila, where the village community, ruled by Mayor Markus, directs her to the trail of Tundra-Tauno, former guide of her father and the suspect of the murder.
Cast
- Tapio Rautavaara as Tundra-Tauno
- Elina Pohjanpää as Karin Turkka
- Matti Oravisto as Officer
- Aino-Maija Tikkanen as Maija
- Matti Tamminen as Mayor Markus
- Leo Jokela as Cardsharp