Sensuela

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Sensuela
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Directed by Teuvo Tulio
Written byTeuvo Tulio, Yrjö Norta
Based onThe Stationmaster
by Alexander Pushkin
Produced byTeuvo Tulio
Starring
  • Marianne Mardi
  • Mauritz Åkerman
  • Ossi Elstelä
  • Ismo Saario
CinematographyTeuvo Tulio, Yrjö Norta
Edited byYrjö Norta
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Production
company
Suomi-Filmi Oy
Distributed bySuomi-Filmi Oy
Release date
  • 29 May 1973 (1973-05-29)
Running time
110 minutes (original version)
105 minutes (cut version)
CountryFinland
LanguagesEnglish (original)
Finnish (re-recorded)

Sensuela is a 1973 Finnish drama film directed and written by Teuvo Tulio. The film is based on Tulio's 1946 film Rakkauden risti which itself was based on The Stationmaster, a short story written by Alexander Pushkin. [1] Sensuela was Tulio's final film, and it was met with harsh criticism. Since its release, it has gained a reputation as a campy cult classic and has been called "the weirdest Finnish film ever made". [2] Although the production was finished in 1972, it was not released until a year later and then opened only in selected theatres.

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Premise

Set during the Continuation War (1941–1944) and the Lapland War (1944–1945), Sensuela is the story of Laila, a girl from Lapland, and Hans, a German soldier, who fall in love during the Continuation War. [3] [4]

Main cast

Release

Sensuela was the first film to be rated 18 by the Finnish Board of Film Classification. [5] After its initial release, Tulio prevented the film's subsequent distribution, and it only became available after his death in 2000. [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sensuela (1973). KAVA. 1972. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Sensuela (18)". Yle. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  3. ↑ Silén, Jarkko (3 March 2003). ""JOPA JÖRN D:KIN VARMASTI PUNASTUISI" – Mauritz Åkermanin haastattelu". Film-O-Holic.com. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  4. ↑ Kolsi, Eeva-Kaarina (24 May 2017). "Teuvo Tulion eroottisen Sensuelan tähti Marianne Träskman kohukohtauksista: "Mitään traumaa ei jäänyt"" [Star of Teuvo Tulio's erotic Sensuela, Marianne Träskman, on the controversial scenes: "I wasn't left traumatized"]. Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  5. ↑ Sundholm, John (2012). Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 147. ISBN   9780810855243.
  6. ↑ Stevenson, Jack (2010). Scandinavian Blue. McFarland & Company. pp. 124–128. ISBN   9780786444885.
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