World Film Locations: Helsinki by Silja Laine, Pietari Kääpä

By Silja Laine, Pietari Kääpä

Part of Intellect’s international movie destinations sequence, World movie destinations: Helsinki explores the connection among town, cinema, and Finnish cultural historical past. Cinematic representations of Helsinki diversity from depictions of a northern outer edge to an area of cosmopolitanism, from a touristic vacation spot to an alternative to Moscow and St. Petersburg in the course of the chilly warfare. town additionally appears assorted looking on one’s point of view, and World movie destinations: Helsinki illustrates this complexity via supplying a visible number of cinematic perspectives of Helsinki.
This cinematic urban is a collective paintings the place person items build an entire, and one that we, as audience, then form based on our views. The members emphasize the position of town in id and cultural politics all through Finnish movie heritage and its principal function because the locus for negotiating Finland’s globalization.


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Snowy Katajannokka, South Harbour, and Mannerheimintie are used as locations in several scenes of the film. The facade of Uspenski Cathedral is crucial to the scene in which Leo and Harry have come to assassinate a Russian agent. The shot in which the orthodox cathedral is seen through the riflescope encapsulates the image of Helsinki as the stage of the Cold War conflict. In many Cold War Films, Helsinki stood as a substitute for the Soviet Union: Uspenski Cathedral’s golden domes were seen for example in Don Siegel’s Telefon (1977).

By the time we reach the film’s climax, it explodes into full blown horror as the detectives unravel the insane motivations behind the crime. ✒Pietari Kääpä 34 World Film Locations |Helsinki Directed by Matti Kassila Scene description: Bruno Rygsack’s mansion is the location for an extraordinary family affair Timecode for scene: 0:00:00 − 0:02:02 Images © 1960 Suomen Filmiteollisuus 35 Gas, Inspector Palmu/ Kaasua, Komisario Palmu LOCATI O N (1961) Mechelininkatu 7, 00100 Helsinki the second of the Palmu series focuses on the murder of Ms Skrof, a widow with a substantial heritage.

Yet, this symbolism indicates, at least in the minds of certain producers, that this is a Finland of two distinct halves. ✒Pietari Kääpä 42 World Film Locations |Helsinki Directed by Åke Lindman Scene description: Eeva arrives in Helsinki Timecode for scene: 0:04:10 – 0:05:38 Images © 1962 Suomen Filmiteollisuus 43 SPOTLI G HT CREATIVE GEOGRAPHY w Text by Susanna Paasonen Helsinki As 'Body Double' (Part 1) in the winter of 1983 , a colossal poster featuring the head of Lenin was hoisted on the wall of a building in Unioninkatu, central Helsinki, in order to camouflage the city as surrogate Moscow for the filming of Michael Apted’s Gorky Park (1983).

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