Toivo Särkkä

Toivo Särkkä, known as T. J. Särkkä, was a bank manager and a teacher of Russian before devoting himself to cinema at about the age of forty-five. Director of Suomen Filmiteollisuus from 1935, he made it the country's leading studio: the company produced some two hundred and forty feature films, about a quarter of the national output. He himself directed about fifty of them, between the ages of forty-six and seventy-two, about a dozen of them with Yrjö Norta, and was selected at Venice and Berlin.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaRykmentin murheenkryyniToivo Särkkä · 1938Cinema