Aarne Tarkas

Aarne Tarkas (until 1947 Saastamoinen, 19 December 1923 – 7 October 1976) was a Finnish film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.

[1] Tarkas started his career as a screenwriter for Matti Kassila film Radio tekee murron (1951) for which they shared a Jussi Award.

In 1952, he founded a production company Junior-Filmi, which produced internationally recognized Erik Blomberg film Valkoinen peura.

All in all, Tarkas wrote 35 scripts and directed 33 feature films.

[2] Aarne Tarkas died of a heart failure at the age of 52.