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FAQ: Auditorium ProgramsLatvian-born Finnish actor and director Teuvo Tulio (1912 – 2000) forged a distinctive style in the late 1930s, loading his wildly melodramatic narratives with exaggerated metaphor and feeling. Starkly beautiful Scandinavian nature cinematography mirrors emotion—rivers surge when love is realized; a tempest rages when anger swells. Although Tulio's films are rarely screened today, the celebrated contemporary Finnish filmmakers Mika and Aki Kaurismäki acknowledge their stylistic debt to him. These four works from the 1930s and 1940s are presented through the cooperation of the National Audiovisual Archive, Helsinki, with special thanks to Satu Laaksonen, Florence Almozini, Adrienne Mancia, and Kathy Geritz.
A landowner's son falls in love with a servant only to face his family's rejection. He leaves home to adopt the life of a lumberjack and a libertine but suffers consequences in the end. Song of the Scarlet Flower is a sumptuous paean to the Finnish landscape and one of the most popular films of the 1930s. (1938, 35 mm, Finnish with subtitles, 110 minutes)
followed by The Way You Wanted Me
The lighthouse keeper's daughter is engulfed by the sinful life of the city in this symbol-rich work based on a Pushkin story. Eventually, the girl finds a handsome artist to marry—until her tarnished past is revealed. Critic Peter von Bagh notes, "Tulio's productions remain in the grand operatic tradition—as profound as they are absurd." (1946, 35 mm, Finnish with subtitles, 95 minutes)
The motif of the naive country girl corrupted by the city recurs in The Way You Wanted Me. Sunlit images of Finland's rural landscapes convey both calm and order, while the town, shown at night, is sheer chaos. (1944, 35 mm, Finnish with subtitles, 99 minutes)
The breathtaking beauty of the Finnish countryside is again the backdrop for a finely honed melodrama whose over-the-top storyline plumbs the depths of the religious culture of the Finnish peasantry. Beautiful Sirkka Salonen, Miss Europe of 1938, plays a naive servant who, as the film's pivotal centerpiece, instigates jealousy among the household help. (1940, 35 mm, Finnish with subtitles, 108 minutes)