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Klaus Härö is a Director and Scriptwriter Finlandais born on 31 march 1971 at Porvoo (Finlande)
Klaus Härö, born 31 March 1971 in Porvoo (Swedish: Borgå), Finland, Finland-Swedish film director. In 2004, Härö won Finland's State Prize for Art.
He studied directing and attended screen writing seminars at the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki. He has directed 4 feature films Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002), Mother of Mine (2005) and The New Man (2007),Letters to Father Jacob(2009), as well as documentaries and short films. His films have won more than 60 prizes in festivals all over the world, and they have been successful with both critics and audiences. He works in both Sweden and Finland.
In 2003 Klaus Härö was awarded the Ingmar Bergman prize, the winner of which is chosen by Ingmar Bergman himself. Härö's first two features were chosen to represent Finland in the best foreign film category at the Oscars.
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He studied directing and attended screen writing seminars at the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki. He has directed 4 feature films Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002), Mother of Mine (2005) and The New Man (2007),Letters to Father Jacob(2009), as well as documentaries and short films. His films have won more than 60 prizes in festivals all over the world, and they have been successful with both critics and audiences. He works in both Sweden and Finland.
In 2003 Klaus Härö was awarded the Ingmar Bergman prize, the winner of which is chosen by Ingmar Bergman himself. Härö's first two features were chosen to represent Finland in the best foreign film category at the Oscars.
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The Fencer (2015)
, 1h38Directed by Klaus Härö
Origin Finlande
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Sports films
Actors Ursula Ratasepp, Märt Avandi
Rating70%
A young man, Endel Nelis, arrives in Haapsalu, Estonia, in the early 1950’s, having left Leningrad to escape the secret police. He finds work as a teacher and founds a sports club for his students, where he starts teaching them his great passion – fencing. Disapproving, the school's principal starts investigating Endel’s background.
Letters to Father Jacob (2009)
, 1h16Directed by Klaus Härö
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Heikki Nousiainen
Rating72%
Condamnée à perpétuité pour meurtre, Leila est mystérieusement libérée après seulement douze ans. Envoyée auprès d'un vieux prêtre aveugle et isolé pour être sa nouvelle assistante, elle devra répondre à l'abondant courrier qu'il reçoit chaque jour. Indifférente à tout cela, Leila va tenter de profiter de la cécité de son hôte.
The New Man (2007)
, 1h44Directed by Klaus Härö
Genres Drama
Actors Lo Kauppi
Rating67%
The film portrays Gertrude, a strong and exuberant 17-year-old and her collision with the Swedish welfare state in the early 1950s. It deals with the compulsory sterilisation in Sweden affecting 63,000 people between 1934 and 1976.
Mother of Mine (2005)
, 1h51Directed by Klaus Härö
Origin Finlande
Genres Drama, War
Actors Esko Salminen, Aino-Maija Tikkanen, Michael Nyqvist, Kari-Pekka Toivonen, Brasse Brännström, Leif Andrée
Rating75%
The story is a discussion between Eero and his biological mother (Kirsti), where they are talking to each other and clarifying their misunderstanding and difference in present time. Eero has just come back from his visit from Sweden for Signe's (Swedish mother) funeral.
Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2003)
, 1h17Directed by Klaus Härö
Genres Drama
Actors Bibi Andersson, Björn Granath
Rating69%
In the 1950s, nine-year-old Elina lives with her younger siblings and her mother in the Torne Valley in the north of Sweden, near the Finnish border. Her father, whom she loved dearly, died of tuberculosis a few years ago. Elina finds consolation in wandering out on the dangerous marshlands to have imaginary conversations with her dead father. Elina also contracted tuberculosis, but recovered. Because she was ill for so long, Elina is obliged to repeat a whole year at school. However, since she missed so much schooling as a result, she has been put in a new class with a different teacher, the strict Tora Holm. Tora Holm sees it as her mission to protect her pitiable charges from the pitfalls of life, believing that only those who speak perfect Swedish have any chance of a happy and successful life. Elina's family belongs to a Finnish-speaking minority frowned upon by a staunch schoolmistress who starts hounding Elina for speaking Finnish in class and questioning her authority. Elina's mother, sister, and a liberal young male teacher all try to mediate the ensuing battle of wills between Elina and Miss Holm. Especially when Elina exercises the sense of justice she learned from her father and stands up for one of her schoolmates. Although nobody is willing to take her side, little Elina proves far stronger than teacher Tora Holm reckoned. The conflict comes to a head when Elina flees to the dangerous moor.
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Letters to Father Jacob (2009)
, 1h16Directed by Klaus Härö
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Heikki Nousiainen
Roles Ecrivain
Rating72%
Condamnée à perpétuité pour meurtre, Leila est mystérieusement libérée après seulement douze ans. Envoyée auprès d'un vieux prêtre aveugle et isolé pour être sa nouvelle assistante, elle devra répondre à l'abondant courrier qu'il reçoit chaque jour. Indifférente à tout cela, Leila va tenter de profiter de la cécité de son hôte.