Erkki Karu

In Erkki Karu’s silent film Myrskyluodon kalastaja (1924), fisherman Eerik Storm is in danger of losing his home and agrees to become a ...

This totally silent remake of popular folk play is stunningly beautiful when it comes to visual issues. Young Eino Kari as cinematographer can be ...

It took a while until Erkki Karu found out what was the real interest of the public movie-goers. After 1929 when he wrote “Meidän ...

Erkki Karu’s silent drama Fugitives From Murmansk is based on the novel by Kaarlo Hänninen. In the autumn of 1916 in northern Finland, ...

Herr Erkki Karu is considered one of the most important silent pioneers and a key figure in the Finnish silent film history; he founded ...