Actors tell about their experiences working with director Mikko Niskanen

Author, actor Anna-Leena Härkönen says in his memoir published on Wednesday Taskupainos about his distressing experiences by film director Mikko Niskanen with.

Katja Kallio In a memoir written, Härkönen tells how Mikko Niskanen (1929-1990), over 50 years old, began to surround him Mona and the time of burning love when making the movie in 1983.

Actor Kristiina Halkola worked with Niskanen in the movies Cone under the back (1966) and Lapland (1967).

“Yes, I see that many people fell in love with him or he fell in love with those actors. But he didn’t try me. Maybe it was because I had a deeply different relationship Cone under the back -at the time of the movie, which was our first cooperation, “Halkola says.

“In fact, I had a terribly good relationship with him. I think Mikko Niskanen was a charming person and a very good director. Suitable for me. And I got along very well with him. But I’m a little bit shabby that I say. I was not afraid of him, even though he was such a fast -paced guy. ”

Niskanen was Cone under the back when filming the movie, he has already met himself 14 years younger Aulikki Oksanen A movie about refining love in TV show shooting.

Anna magazine in an interview In the fall of 2024, Oksanen told how Niskanen immediately kissed him during the test shots. This is where the three -year romance that ended when Niskanen fell in love with his contraindic Tarja-Tuulikki to Tarsala Eight bullets in descriptions.

“It was mutual, huge love, ”the actor recalls Liisamaija Laaksonen The relationship between his close friend Tarsala (1937-2007) and Niskanen.

Laaksonen played a role as the mother of Anna-Leena Härkönen’s role as a mother Mona and the time of burning love in the movie, but his experience with Niskanen’s guidance was very different from Härkönen or Kristiina Halkola, for example.

“I don’t know if he had had the best years behind, but as a director he didn’t say anything. Everything was kind of a way, ”Laaksonen says.

“He was terribly friendly to me, but my role was somehow unfinished. Even at that end, I came up with everything and Mikko said okay okay. ”

Neck The last movie remained My youthful Savota (1988). Its cast of the cast was heard Lilli Earljust having good things to say about working with Niskanen.

“I really have nothing but good memories of it. After all, it was a huge honor that I got into the big prog. And I remember it was done with a real pie. ”

Earl remembers that Niskanen treated him very respectfully and does not believe that he would have been in love with him.

“He was a very caring and kind person. Or at least for me, he was completely a gentleman. If there was something like that, I’d have … Well maybe he knew I would lift such a terrible dummy then. ”

Kristiina Halkola sees that the working methods of the film industry over the past decades reflected the rest of society.

“I’ve seen it a lot around me, especially from producers. Some producers had the idea that because they produce a movie, they are entitled to anything. They took it for granted – that now we are going, I’m a producer. Then it had to be said that I couldn’t hear it, ”Halkola says.

“At that time, society as a whole was built more on the kind of thinking: they were gentlemen who had to take women.”