Flame Top (1980)★ 6.4/10

FI · 155 min · October 17, 1980

• Drama
• Biography

Directed by: Pirjo Honkasalo, Pekka Lehto

Written by: Daniel Katz, Pirjo Honkasalo, Maiju Lassila, Pekka Lehto

The life of early-20th-century author, journalist, and revolutionary Algot Untola (also known as Maiju Lassila, Irmari Rantamala, and several more pseudonyms), one of the most enigmatic figures in Finnish literature. Different time levels are mixed in the film to give it an equally enigmatic structure. Untola lives periods of his life in the Finnish countryside as a teacher, then in St. Petersburg as a businessman; he also becomes a Socialist, then dies during the Finnish Civil War in 1918.