Risto Jarva
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Risto Antero Jarva was a Finnish
filmmaker. His last film was Jäniksen vuosi
("The Year of the Hare"). He died in a car accident on his way back from a private showing of the film, and the subsequent party.
Mr. Jarva usually approached his long films and short documentary films from some social problem and from one or more possible ways to solve it. Such problems included the widespread use of cars, the position of women, city planning, pollution, the role of gossip magazines' journalists, and the Finnish society's remaining ideological divides (see the Finnish-language Wikipedia article about Jarva and his biography by Kalervo Toiviainen, published in Finland in the early 1980's).
Jarva worked as an artistic professor of the film from 1970 to 1975 and as the Helsinki Applied Arts and Industry College's senior teacher from 1975 to 1977 (see the Finnish-language Wikipedia article about Jarva and his biography).
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
filmmaker. His last film was Jäniksen vuosi
Jäniksen vuosi
The Year of the Hare is a 1977 Finnish drama film directed by Risto Jarva, starring Antti Litja as a man who leaves his office job in Helsinki to live in the wilderness with a hare...
("The Year of the Hare"). He died in a car accident on his way back from a private showing of the film, and the subsequent party.
Mr. Jarva usually approached his long films and short documentary films from some social problem and from one or more possible ways to solve it. Such problems included the widespread use of cars, the position of women, city planning, pollution, the role of gossip magazines' journalists, and the Finnish society's remaining ideological divides (see the Finnish-language Wikipedia article about Jarva and his biography by Kalervo Toiviainen, published in Finland in the early 1980's).
Jarva worked as an artistic professor of the film from 1970 to 1975 and as the Helsinki Applied Arts and Industry College's senior teacher from 1975 to 1977 (see the Finnish-language Wikipedia article about Jarva and his biography).
External links
- Biography by Finnish Literature SocietyFinnish Literature SocietyThe Finnish Literature Society was founded in 1831 to promote literature written in Finnish. Among its first publications was the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic.-External links:* ...
- Risto Jarva in Internet Movie Database