Catherine and Count of Munkkiniemi made Leif Wager a popular star, but it was priced.
Katariina and the Count of Munkkiniemi have the most iconic scene in Finnish film history. General
Legendary Catherine and Count of Munkkiniemi -The movie is one of the classics of Suomi Film. The Melodrama, which premiered in 1943, made Leif from Wager One time in Finland’s most desirable male actor.
The film adventures in the 19th century Helsinki, where the handsome Count falls in love with the lower-status beauties and is not good for it.
In the female lead, as a daughter of Muonamies, he knows Regina Linnanheimoto whom the Wager, or Leman Count, presents an iconic Romancesong. While the Count sings in a movie scene in the nostrils vibration ”You just over everything I love“, The Society surrounding lovers is trying to crush the nascent love with all the power.
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For Leif Wager, the film gave fame and mammon, but it also became a man. In 2001, he recalled to Iltalehti at his old age that the role did not just offer pleasant aftermath: disturbance became commonplace.
– One admirer called at three in the morning and sang me, accompanied by a white grand piano. Women often tried to penetrate my home, so my wife’s nerves were often tested, Wager was painful to Iltalehti.
In addition, the Wager had to carry a female man because of his romantic main role, even though he, according to his own words, had sworn one woman. 1946 union dancer Eva Hemming It took me and the opposite hills, as the wife was able to treat her stars in the right way.
The list of Wager’s role works is to be respected. After Catherine and Munkkiniemi Count, she was seen among others Youth in the fog and Alley runin the movies, as well as in the theater plays Revisor, August Tea Room, Gustav III, Happy Widow, My Fair Lady, Wife School and Parisian life.
Katariina and Munkkiniemi Count will be seen on Yle TV1 on Tuesday at 13.25. See all TV shows and broadcast times on the Telku TV guide.