About Maunu Kurkvaara
Maunu Kurkvaara was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. Kurkvaara has been widely regarded as the initiator of the "new wave" of Finnish cinema in the spirit of French New Wave cinema. He directed 22 films between 1955 and 1993. Many of his films share a nautical theme due to his love of the sea. His film Yksityisalue was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1965, he co-produced the film 4x4 and it was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Kurkvaara made his first distinctive tax reduction short films in 1955. Kurkvaara was also interested in the possibilities of color film, and in order to explore them, he founded his own color film laboratory, Kurkvaara-Film, in the early 1960s. In the early 1970s, Kurkvaara got tired of the politicization that had spread to the film industry, closed his laboratory, withdrew from film, and founded a boat sculpting business, among other things.
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