Valentin Vaala

Valentin Ivanoff, who took the name Valentin Vaala, was born in Helsinki in 1909, to Russian parents who had come from Saint Petersburg. A pupil at a Russian school in the city and a newspaper cartoonist from 1926 to 1929, he made his first films at nineteen with his friend Theodor Tugai. He directed forty-four films from 1929 to 1973, one of the most important careers in Finnish cinema, and launched many of its stars. He died suddenly in Helsinki on 21 November 1976.

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• CinemaNiskavuoren naisetValentin Vaala · 1938Cinema