Antti Litja
Encyclopedia
Antti Litja is a Finnish
actor
.
Litja entered film in 1960
and has made over 60 Finnish film and TV appearances to date. A prominent figure in Finnish film in the 1970s and 1980s since the mid 1990s he has become mostly an actor on television
appearing on a number of series.
Litja played the main character in the 1977
film
Jäniksen vuosi
about a Finnish man from Helsinki
who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness.
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
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Litja entered film in 1960
1960 in film
The year 1960 in film involved some significant events, with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho the top-grossing release in the U.S.-Events:* April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I...
and has made over 60 Finnish film and TV appearances to date. A prominent figure in Finnish film in the 1970s and 1980s since the mid 1990s he has become mostly an actor on television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
appearing on a number of series.
Litja played the main character in the 1977
1977 in film
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
Jäniksen vuosi
Jäniksen vuosi
The Year of the Hare is a 1977 Finnish drama film directed by Risto Jarva, starring Antti Litja as a man who leaves his office job in Helsinki to live in the wilderness with a hare...
about a Finnish man from Helsinki
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness.