Mikko Niskanen
Director
36
Filmes
3
Séries
Mikko Niskanen was a Finnish film director and actor. He was born in Äänekoski, Central Finland in 1929. He was the third of six children, and his father worked as a timber barge pilot. His mother too had a job outside the home, so the children often spent summers with their grandmother in Viitasaari.
At the age of 13, Mikko Niskanen started working in timber felling and floating. Two years later he enrolled in a vocational school in Jyväskylä to become a car mechanic. He took a serious interest in amateur theatre and was accepted to study at the Finnish Theatre Academy in Helsinki from 1947 until 1950. He then acted in Jyväskylä and Kuopio theatres until 1954 when he landed an actor's job at the film studios of Suomen Filmiteollisuus in Helsinki. One of his first film roles was in Edvin Laine's The Unknown Soldier (1955). Between 1958 and 1961 Niskanen studied at the Moscow Film School in the Soviet Union.
Niskanen's 1962 film The Boys was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. He continued his directing career focusing on themes such as rural life and youth. His second breakthrough was Under Your Skin (Käpy selän alla, 1966), a story of two young couples spending a weekend camping in the countryside. The film received six Jussi Awards and was followed by another story about young lovers, Asfalttilampaat (1968).
Niskanen's tour de force as both actor and director was the five-hour television drama Eight Deadly Shots which was also released as a 145-minute theatrical version edited by Jörn Donner. Based on a true story from late 1960s Finland, it is a naturalistic drama about a poor farmer struggling to make a living for his family. He gradually becomes a violent alcoholic who goes on killing spree when the police arrive to calm him down. Besides directing, Niskanen gave a powerful and intense performance in the leading role. The film, like many of Niskanen's works were shot on locations around his home province north of Jyväskylä.
Mikko Niskanen died of cancer at the age of 61.
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Juha
Location Manager
Verta käsissämme
Location Manager
Kahdeksan surmanluotia
Productor, Director, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía, Creator
Asfalttilampaat
Director, Guionista
Ajolähtö
Escritor, Director, Productor
Käpy selän alla
Director
Nuoruuteni savotat
Director, Guionista, Casting
Elämän vonkamies
Guionista, Director
Pojat
Director, Guionista
Syksyllä kaikki on toisin
Director, Guionista, Productor
17. kesä
Productor
Sissit
Director, Guionista
Kahdeksan surmanluotia
Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía, Director, Productor
Hopeaa rajan takaa
Director, Guionista
Mona ja palavan rakkauden aika
Director, Productor, Historia
Pulakapina
Director, Guionista, Productor
Onnettomuus
Productor, Production Supervisor
Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta
Director, Guionista
Lapualaismorsian
Director, Escritor
Kyläkauppa
Productor
Como Ator/Atriz
Verta käsissämme
Kahdeksan surmanluotia
Pasi
Tuntematon sotilas
Mielonen
Rauta-aika
Tiera
Sodan ja rauhan miehet
Stalin
Hän varasti elämän
(uncredited)
Täällä Pohjantähden alla
Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä
UN-soldier #2
Kaunis Kaarina
(uncredited)
Ajolähtö
Aaro, työnjohtaja
Käpy selän alla
Man on Dance Floor (uncredited)
1918
(uncredited)
Nuoruuteni savotat
(uncredited)
Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
Villager (uncredited)
Elämän vonkamies
Auku-eno
Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
(uncredited)
Herra sotaministeri
(uncredited)
Syksyllä kaikki on toisin
Kalervo Haapanen
Naiset, jotka minulle annoit
Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut
(uncredited)
Kahden ladun poikki
(uncredited)
Älä nuolase…
Kahdeksan surmanluotia
Pasi
Tähtisilmä
artist Sumppu
Köyhä laulaja
(uncredited)
Mona ja palavan rakkauden aika
Martti, Monan äidin esimies
Tanssi yli hautojen
Autuas eversti
(uncredited)
Pulakapina
Heikki Niskanen
Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta
Palsami / Rehentelevä tukkilainen