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This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, working as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics, he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as a result, had to run back to Finland to hide. Once established in the comparative safety of a small village, he taught school in order to support his real vocation as a writer. Always living on the edge of poverty, if not square in the middle of it, Lassila continues to avoid public contact - he keeps his identity low-key and camoflages it by publishing under a variety of pseudonyms.
Cast
![Asko Sarkola](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//1nt02H5CJquNL6fSE9rGKsxMfTf.jpg)
Asko Sarkola
Writer Algot Lassila, aka Maiju Lassila, aka Irmari Rantamala
![Rea Mauranen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//jDcedq9IMDi82BPbHEppypLOuUn.jpg)
Rea Mauranen
Olga Esempio
![Kari Franck](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Kari Franck
Gunnar Avanto
![Ari Suonsuu](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ari Suonsuu
Kalle
![Ritva Juhanto](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ritva Juhanto
Kurttuska
![Esko Salminen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//74y98xEaOSBC5xp1vpcm9VrFGLW.jpg)
Esko Salminen
Arwid
![Heikki Alho](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Heikki Alho
Pikku-Pouvali
![Tuomo Railo](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Tuomo Railo
Sulo Esempio
![Yuri Rodionov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//bK9yf9782YYIjHIXEDant7Zz30e.jpg)
Yuri Rodionov
Rawitz
![Galina Galtseva](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//fWIkuH1G4nJlJE05u0MuvxeKIbI.jpg)
Galina Galtseva
Magda
![Soli Labbart](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Soli Labbart
Maria Lassila
![Pirkka Karskela](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Pirkka Karskela
Young Algot
![Markku Blomqvist](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Markku Blomqvist
Lundberg
![Esa Suvilehto](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Esa Suvilehto
Pöntinen
![Matti Oravisto](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//v9i5XTWwYgYaiNsWn4dcTZT1DiX.jpg)
Matti Oravisto
Commandant Carl von Wendt
![Gunvor Sandkvist](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Gunvor Sandkvist
Anna Belostotskaja
![Pentti Kotkaniemi](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Pentti Kotkaniemi
Russian Army Captain
![Aleksandr Zakharov](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//s0csRiiiJY8uaffaKGW8jEtdET1.jpg)
Aleksandr Zakharov
Von Plehwe
![Vadim Mikheyenko](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//7X24pEdd7fvuPhYkqAGggYHTeYu.jpg)
Vadim Mikheyenko
Terrorist
![Antero Harpf](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Antero Harpf
Rebel officer
![German Lupekin](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
German Lupekin
General Porunov
![Esko Pesonen](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Esko Pesonen
Chief editor
![Arno Virtanen](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Arno Virtanen
Circus manager
![Vitali Iljin-Shapiro](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Vitali Iljin-Shapiro
Terrorist
![Jan Kulik](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Jan Kulik
Terrorist
![Toivo Tuomainen](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Toivo Tuomainen
Oskari Skoff
![Elvi Saarnio](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//tQLzQme3zzKlNvU9PRwQ2rs0yxG.jpg)
Elvi Saarnio
Olga Esempio in prologue (voice)
![Yrjö Tähtelä](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//dlVdOkqfohaMHScUz9HTEXgOQZc.jpg)
Yrjö Tähtelä
Narrator (voice)
![Eeva-Kaarina Volanen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//sOJkMiSJFl3DONaJ3bjdlZTQqv6.jpg)
Eeva-Kaarina Volanen
(voice)
![Mauno Blomqvist](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Mauno Blomqvist
Ploughman (uncredited)
![Mauri Front](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Mauri Front
News photographer (uncredited)
![Pentti Louko](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Pentti Louko
Orthodox priest (uncredited)
![Esko Salmesvirta](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Esko Salmesvirta
Algot's father (uncredited)
![Rauha Wolska](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)