Mary Hannikainen

Tukkijoella

Wilho Ilmari, Axel Slangus

Urho Somersalmi, Ellen Sylvin

“Tukkijoella” (Log River – 1928). Films of this genre gave the Finnish cinema and the viewing public one of its most popular characters – the lumberjack (tukkijatka, tukkipoika, tukkilainen) who at his most heroic hour becomes the log-roller or the shooter of rapids (koskenlaskija). The significance of this character in Finnish film is comparable to that of the Cowboy on American cinema. He is the pioneer, the wanderer, the adventurer. He negotiates the frontier, he is an embodiment of the conflict between wilderness and civilization.

Voi meitä! Anoppi tulee.

Erkki Karu

Georg Malmst, Eva Virtanen