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Mikko Niskanen was a Finnish film director and actor. He was born in Äänekoski, Central Finland in 1929. He was the third of six children, and his father worked as a timber barge pilot. His mother too had a job outside the home, so the children often spent summers with their grandmother in Viitasaari.
At the age of 13, Mikko Niskanen started working in timber felling and floating. Two years later he enrolled in a vocational school in Jyväskylä to become a car mechanic. He took a serious interest in amateur theatre and was accepted to study at the Finnish Theatre Academy in Helsinki from 1947 until 1950. He then acted in Jyväskylä and Kuopio theatres until 1954 when he landed an actor's job at the film studios of Suomen Filmiteollisuus in Helsinki. One of his first film roles was in Edvin Laine's The Unknown Soldier (1955). Between 1958 and 1961 Niskanen studied at the Moscow Film School in the Soviet Union.
Niskanen's 1962 film The Boys was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. He continued his directing career focusing on themes such as rural life and youth. His second breakthrough was Under Your Skin (Käpy selän alla, 1966), a story of two young couples spending a weekend camping in the countryside. The film received six Jussi Awards and was followed by another story about young lovers, Asfalttilampaat (1968).
Niskanen's tour de force as both actor and director was the five-hour television drama Eight Deadly Shots which was also released as a 145-minute theatrical version edited by Jörn Donner. Based on a true story from late 1960s Finland, it is a naturalistic drama about a poor farmer struggling to make a living for his family. He gradually becomes a violent alcoholic who goes on killing spree when the police arrive to calm him down. Besides directing, Niskanen gave a powerful and intense performance in the leading role. The film, like many of Niskanen's works were shot on locations around his home province north of Jyväskylä.
Mikko Niskanen died of cancer at the age of 61.
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20 September 1957
Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood.
11 August 1950
In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
08 April 1955
Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.
21 November 1958
After returning home from being a prisoner of war Viktor gets a job from his friend Rolf with whom he had served.
02 November 1962
When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys.
05 September 1958
Colonel Carolus von Haestman, presumed dead by his family, awakens from his deathbed and sets out to find his childhood sweetheart, Amelie.
18 November 1955
Kaarina, an orphan girl raised by Taneli, the innkeeper, notices that her friendship with her childhood friend Antti is turning into romance.
09 August 1957
Kalle, a shy and absent-minded civil servant at the comparison agency, unwittingly becomes Minister of War.
09 November 1956
Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else.
20 December 1957
Pekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained as frogmen.
14 January 1967
Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky’s famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen.
21 October 1966
A movie about summer, youth, the difficulty of love, and a camping trip to the countryside by four young people from Helsinki.
23 December 1955
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment.
25 April 1958
Pekka Puupää and Pätkä involuntarily end up in Suez as peacekeepers. After saving the Caliph's daughter Suleiman from kidnappers on two occasions, the Caliph magically reunites the friends with Justiina.
06 September 1967
Based on Edvard Radzinsky's play, the story critically examines the difficulties of a Soviet film production.
15 April 1955
Poor orphan coffee delivery girl loves a poor painter who can't sell his artworks. Painter likes delivery girl, but has stuck in a friend zone.
26 January 1977
Based on a true story about the so called 1932 Horse Rebellion in Nivala, Finland. The decision to put down a sick horse owned by a poor farmer rises the farmers in open rebellion against the authorities.
02 May 1979
A dramatized documentary about the importance of a village shop to the village community.
05 February 1982
Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside.
29 October 1971
Olavi Koskela, a ladies' man, joins the loggers. As a log driver, Olavi travels from place to place, seducing one girl after another and then abandoning them.
21 October 1976
A fictional tale of a mother and a 17-year-old boy moving from countryside to city and the start of a new life in the middle of a concrete jungle.
17 August 1962
A triangular drama set in the world of theater.
20 April 1976
Traffic education film.
31 October 1986
Portrait of rural life in 1920s Northern Finland. The film follows the early life of a boy called Kalle and his family in the shores of river Iijoki.
18 November 1988
Lumberjacking is a second part of saga about young author, Kalle Päätalo. It's a story about growing up and becoming a storyteller in hard times when their father was in the forced labour camp.
20 September 1963
In the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist and Anttala decide to seek family silver hidden under Wist's home behind the border line of the truce.
21 February 1963
Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.
23 December 1983
Growing up story of a high school girl that struggles with the emptiness of her life.
03 August 1962
A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander.
13 September 1968
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village.
19 December 1968
A story of a doomed young love in a small narrow-minded town.
28 February 1958
Young Anna marries Tuomas, an old widower. Tuomas reluctantly sells his forest to the boss of Ruukki and is forced to take in a group of loggers, among whom the handsome womanizer Humu begins to seduce the young mistress of the house.
15 September 1972
Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting.
24 February 1960
The unlucky layabout Isarkar Keturi brings a criminal gang to heel with the help of his assistant Mikael.
09 February 1962
Poor service station workers Jaakko and Timo think they have won the lottery jackpot. The men are already making big plans when it turns out that the prize is actually worthless.
06 October 1978
A small Finnish town bank manager gets caught in the midst of local politics, with dire effects on his family and himself.
01 December 1967
A theater group is training for the play Lapualaisooppera. We see these young people hanging out and talking about what goes on around them.
28 April 1950
Sisters Irma and Airi Ranna's café Iltatähti has run into financial trouble. Touring musicians Heikki and Jussi end up as tenants in the same boarding house where the siblings and the poetic accountant live.
