The Marshal of Finland

The Marshal of Finland Finnish Suomen Marsalkka is a FinnishKenyan fictional film based on the life of Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. The film is produced by Yleisradio in cooperation with Savane Productions and Filmistuudio Kalevipojad. Its directed by a Kenyan Gilbert Lukalia. The films world premiere was on The Helsinki International Love amp Anarchy Film Festival on September 28, 2012.

In winter 2012 Yle reported on a forthcoming Mannerheim film, which would be an international production. Information of the film being filmed on a foreign country became to public, before Yle had time to organize a press conference on August 16, 2012.Erkko Lyytinen got the idea for the film in Kenya from an Estonian producer Ken Saan. Saan had asked from Lyytinen if he had any project that could be filmed at Kenya. According to Lyytinen, Saans aspect at the production was a major success of the movie filming. The screenplay was written by a Kenyan work group. Yle gave to scriptwriters the necessary facts, but the group created the portrait of Mannerheim themselves. Originally the film was going to be a war film, but turned out to be a biographical film, because it was to hard to shoot the war scenes at the bad circumstances. ........

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