Suomen Filmiteollisuus
Film production | |
Founded | 1933 |
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Founder | Erkki Karu |
Key people | |
Website | suomenfilmiteollisuus |
Suomen Filmiteollisuus (SF), lit. Finland's Film Industry, is a
film production company founded by Erkki Karu in 1933 after financial problems with Suomi-Filmi. The CEO, director, producer and writer T.J. Särkkä was a central figure in Suomen Filmiteollisuus. Among others, the film director Armand Lohikoski worked for the company, for which he directed 18 feature films. Suomen Filmiteollisuus went bankrupt in 1965 as a result of the coming of television
.
Since 2005, the company name Suomen Filmiteollisuus has been owned by film director Markku Pölönen and his wife, who bought it from director Jari Nieminen.
External links
- Official homepages of Suomen Filmiteollisuus (in Finnish)