Nyrki Tapiovaara - Varastettu kuolema AKA Stolen Death (1938)

Passages selected from Peter Cowie's book Finnish Cinema: There is no doubt that Nyrki Tapiovaara has become a legendary figure in Finnish cinema - a Keats or a Vigo. And one uses the term "legendary" with deliberate emphasis, for Tapiovaara's achievement was to revolt against the stereotyped cinema of his time; in many respects his work appears today as coarse-cut, perfunctory, and even