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?
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.
"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. Trying, challenging and partly offensive exercises, mental pressure and Turkka's theatre ideology and method.
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 considered one of the greatest of them all.
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 Spain.
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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