Juha

Juha (1956)

Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova Shemeikka arrives from strange lands and takes Marja away with him.

Date of release
1956-11-09
TMDB
3.0 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Drama
Director
T.J. Särkkä

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Juha

Juha is a 1956 Finnish drama film produced, written, and directed by Toivo Särkkä. The film is based on a 1911 novel Juha by Juhani Aho, telling the story of the farm host Juha and his young wife Marja, whose usual everyday life is disrupted when a Karelian traveling merchant arrives and starts seducing the passionate Marja. The film stars Elina Pohjanpää, Eino Kaipainen and Veikko Uusimäki.

Production

Producing a feature-length color film had already been part of T. J. Särkkä's plans for several years. As the subject of his first color film, he initially considered a 1944 novel Som tusen liljor by Waldemar Nyman and then a 1913 short story "Hilja the Milkmaid" by Johannes Linnankoski.

The film was shot between June and September in 1956. Most of Juha's outdoor scenes were shot in Kuusamo, as in Nyrki Tapiovaara's version 20 years earlier. In Tapiovaara's version, the whitewater rafter was Ilkka Mustonen, and in the newer version, his son Eino Mustonen was supposed to rafting instead of Veikko Uusimäki (who plays Shemeikka in the new version), but he refused to appear in the film for religious reasons.

Elsa Sylvestersson, ballet dancer of the Finnish National Opera, assisted in the party scene at Shemeikka's house, filmed in the studio of Suomen Filmiteollisuus.

For the Swedish market, a Swedish-languaged version of the film was shot at the same time, which was cut to half an hour shorter than the Finnish version.

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