Jouko Turkka
Acting
Biography
Jouko Veli Turkka was a Finnish writer, actor, drama-teacher, stage and film director and above all a controversialist.
Known For

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Yhdeksän miehen saappaat

The protagonists of the series are three cops - married couple Marita and Goofy and Marita's old love, Oiva. After years, Marita and Oiva meet and escape into the woods during a police operation. In the soft heat of August, the cops are trying to find a place of fulfillment and save the world from evil. In the whirlwind of a triangle drama, they encounter missions, murderers, priests and betrayers - rage, crime, tears.
Kiimaiset poliisit

A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimerin tapaus
Seven brothers takes place during ten years of the seven deadbeat brothers living with their mother in Jukola, Finland. After their mother's death the brothers are forced to change their lifestyle and try to become socially accepted citizens.
Seven Brothers

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.
The Life of Aleksis Kivi

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance. Direct television broadcast from Kino Helsinki. Students from Theatre Academy Helsinki working under director Jouko Turkka.
Hamlet

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.
Back to the USSR

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.
Starring: Jouko Turkka
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Puotila

"Meat and Love" - Tells the story how Finnish human outcast are being exported to Sweden as a sausages. The local butcher falls in love with the fragile owner of the health food store. He begins to date her. It turns out to be inappropriate. The health food customers becomes uneasy. They mobilize their strong hatred against the cornea butcher. An intrusive and discolored drama. About cross-over lust, hunger and fears. Recording from the stage production.
Kött och kärlek

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?
Turkan lapset

Summary of VHS tapes filmed by Raimo Mikkola from the production of Jouko Turkka's TV series Seitsemän veljestä.
Raportti hurjasta joukosta

Spanish poet Federico GarcĂa 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 Death of Federico
"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.