Mikko Niskanen

Mikko Niskanen was born in Äänekoski in 1929. Having gone from the forestry worksites of central Finland to the film school in Moscow, he became one of the great renewers of Finnish cinema and remains the filmmaker who has received the most Jussi awards for direction, six in all, from 1962 to 1982. He was also an actor, sometimes playing the lead in his own films, and recounted his life as a filmmaker in a book of memoirs in 1971. He died in 1990.

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• CinemaEight Deadly ShotsKahdeksan surmanluotiaMikko Niskanen · 1972Cinema