It was the incentive which gave the start for the careers of director Erkko Kivikoski, then 27 and cinematographer Virke Lehtinen, 22, with experienced editor Juho Gartz, then 30.
His aim was to study film making and hopefully enter Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC).
First and foremost Virke Lehtinen appreciated that director Jean-Paul Le Chanois gave the young film maker a great opportunity to accompany his working.
This strengthened Lehtinen's professional attitude and his everlasting love for the French art of film making – and above all it made him understand the warm humanism Le Chanois had.
After one year Kivikoski and Gartz were bored of being producers, thus Virke Lehtinen was forced to stay alone to end a couple of started productions.
He asked his old friend Aito Mäkinen, who ran the Finnish Film Archives (now National Audiovisual Institute (Finland)), to join the company.
They produced a big number of shorts, even their first TV-documentary The Berlin Film Festival (documentary).
They made "The Finnish way” for Finnair, Marimekko (film) and in Lapland "Reindeer", which was awarded in Venice.
In 1975 Virke Lehtinen started to prepare a feature to be made in Lapland, ”Fires on the Arctic”.
To be able to import new films for the small cinemas - all between 85 and 180 seats, and to pay the advertising and marketing, Virke Lehtinen was forced to travel around Finland and beyond.
Diana cinemas, which started in 1976 by the film of Bertrand Tavernier, Que la fête commence (Let Joy Reign Supreme) were closed in 1992 by the remarkable film of Louis Malle, Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children).