Jani Sourander

If you enjoy movie trivia, here’s a completely useless piece of information you won’t find anywhere else: I made a movie prop for the Backwood Philosopher (Havukka-ahon ajattelija) by Kari Väänänen last summer when I was working for Kainuun Sanomat newspaper. The movie was shot in Kuhmo and Puolanka in the Kainuu region.

The paper, as seen in the photo above, is dated 8th of August 1952. I started the restoration by removing the coffee stains and wrinkles. As the movie is dated in the 1950s, the newspaper needed to look new. I then replaced one of the news articles with a fake article to match the story of the movie. The final product was printed using a large format printer by Mainospalvelu Kurkinen Oy (advertising agency). You can see the result in a close-up scene in the movie. The movie isn’t the best one ever produced, but it’s still surely worth watching. It’s still rolling in the cinemas (in Finland).

I’ve worked for Kainuun Sanomat for three last summers, but this summer I will work for Keskisuomalainen.