Erkki Karu

Erland Fredrik Kumlander, who took the name Erkki Karu in 1911, was born in Helsinki in 1887, the son of a carpenter. A co-founder of Suomi-Filmi and then of Suomen Filmiteollisuus, he was, from the twenties to the early thirties, the dominant figure and driving force of Finnish cinema. He produced thirty-seven feature-length fiction films and about one hundred and sixty documentaries, and directed nineteen himself, from farces on national and peasant subjects to a trilogy in praise of the army. He died in 1935.

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• CinemaNummisuutaritErkki Karu · 1923Cinema