Aarne Tarkas

Aarne Tarkas until 1947 Saastamoinen 19 December 1923 7 October 1976 was a Finnish film director screenwriter producer and actor 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 JuniorFilmi which produced internationally recognized Erik Blomberg film Valkoinen peura Tarkas was known as a very fast writer who during his most productive years finished up to five movies per year All in all Tarkas wrote 35 scripts and directed 33 feature films During his final years he worked mostly for television Aarne Tarkas died of a heart failure at the age of 52