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Flame Top

Directed by Pirjo Honkasalo and Pekka Lehto
1980    2h 35m
6.4
The life of early-20th-century author, journalist, and revolutionary Algot Untola (also known as Maiju Lassila, Irmari Rantamala, and several more pseudonyms), one of the most enigmatic figures in Finnish literature. Different time levels are mixed in the film to give it an equally enigmatic structure. Untola lives periods of his life in the Finnish countryside as a teacher, then in St. Petersburg as a businessman; he also becomes a Socialist, then dies during the Finnish Civil War in 1918.
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Cast of Flame Top
  • Asko SarkolaWriter Algot Lassila, aka Maiju Lassila, aka Irmari Rantamala
  • Rea MauranenOlga Esempio
  • Kari FranckGunnar Avanto
  • Ari SuonsuuKalle
  • Ritva JuhantoKurttuska
  • Esko SalminenArwid
  • Heikki AlhoPikku-Pouvali
  • Tuomo RailoSulo Esempio
  • Yuri RodionovRawitz
  • Galina GaltsevaMagda
  • Soli LabbartMaria Lassila
  • Pirkka KarskelaYoung Algot
  • Markku BlomqvistLundberg
  • Esa SuvilehtoPöntinen
  • Matti OravistoCommandant Carl von Wendt
  • Gunvor SandkvistAnna Belostotskaja
  • Pentti KotkaniemiRussian Army Captain
  • Aleksandr ZakharovVon Plehwe
  • Vadim MikheyenkoTerrorist
  • Antero HarpfRebel officer
  • German LupekinGeneral Porunov
  • Esko PesonenChief editor
  • Arno VirtanenCircus manager
  • Vitali Iljin-ShapiroTerrorist
  • Jan KulikTerrorist
  • Toivo TuomainenOskari Skoff
  • Elvi SaarnioOlga Esempio in prologue (voice)
  • Yrjö TähteläNarrator (voice)
  • Eeva-Kaarina Volanen(voice)
  • Mauno BlomqvistPloughman (uncredited)
  • Mauri FrontNews photographer (uncredited)
  • Pentti LoukoOrthodox priest (uncredited)
  • Esko SalmesvirtaAlgot's father (uncredited)
  • Rauha WolskaRestaurant hostess (uncredited)

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