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Jouko Turkka

Jouko Turkka

Jouko Veli Turkka was a Finnish writer, actor, drama-teacher, stage and film director and above all a controversialist.

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Movies Starring Jouko Turkka (6)

The Life of Aleksis Kivi (2002)

Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä". Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, he is still cons ...

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Turkan lapset (1994)

As the principal of The University of the Arts Theater Academy, Jouko Turkka was a father, God, guru and much more. What happened after? What did Turkka himself think of his students ten years later? ...

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Back to the USSR (1992)

Reima Elo ends up trying to commit suicide when he is abandoned by his wife Molla. He is also the village's laughing stock due to his communism. At a critical moment, a Lenin lookalike from Russia named Vladimir rescues him. ...

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Läpi harmaan kiven (1989)

"Through the gray stone, the bedrock." Follows the making of Jouko Turka's version of Aleksis Kivi's novel "Seven Brothers". The Finnish national poem. A very close look at the lives and drama education of the students at the Theater Academy in Helsinki. T ...

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Starring: Jouko Turkka (1984)

The controversial Jouko Turkka, actor, writer, teacher and stage director. With his mostly devoted students at the Theatre Academy/University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. Where he was appointed professor of stage production 1981-1984. ...

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The Death of Federico (1967)

Spanish poet Federico García Lorca is condemned to death by Captain Nestares after an absurd interrogation that serves to make it clear to the people that the Spanish Civil War is a war of ideas, and that there is no place for individuals like Lorca in Sp ...

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Movies Made By Jouko Turkka (3)

Kött och kärlek (1986)

"Meat and Love" - Tells the story how Finnish human outcast are being exported to Sweden as a sausages. The local butcher falls in love with the fragile owner of the health food store. He begins to date her. It turns out to be inappropriate. The health fo ...

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Hamlet (1985)

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance. Direct television broadcast from Kino Helsinki. Students from Theatre A ...

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Oppenheimerin tapaus (1967)

A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer. ...

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