Risto Orko

Risto Orko, born Risto Nylund in Rauma on 15 September 1899, took his new name in 1933. He spent more than sixty years at Suomi-Filmi, where he was in the thirties head of production and chief director, then managing director from 1945. He directed thirteen films, mostly from 1933 to 1943, two of which were long banned for political reasons, and returned behind the camera one last time in 1980. He died in Helsinki on 29 September 2001, aged one hundred and two.

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• CinemaSiltalan pehtooriRisto Orko · 1934Cinema