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Kurt Jäger
Born — Died
1898-10-14 — 1965-12-10
Place of birth
Berlin, Germany
Known for
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Credits
8 titles
Known for
8.0Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart Uolevi, and to marry Klaus Kurki, a local nobleman with money and influence. An ideal match according to her family and the greedy parish priest, but all is not as it seems: Kurki is a vicious man, tormented by the spirit of his last wife.
Elinan surma
1938
6.5Pastor Petrelius does not accept the marriage wishes of his young daughter Karoliina and Paavo Paavalinpoika. Paavo wants to prove his manhood to the pastor and enlists in the King's forces, but is wounded in the Battle of Pultava. On his return to Finland, he finds his village besieged by Cossack Captain Voronoff.
Isoviha
1939
7.0Second adaptation of Teuvo Pakkala's popular play about Finnish lumberjacks.
Tukkijoella
1937
4.2The film tells the story of a wandering barrel organ player's daily, tragic life in the back streets of the Finnish cities.
Elämän maantiellä
1927
7.1A man stays with a fisherman and his adult daughter in coastal Finland, develops feelings for the daughter and begins to uncover a terrible secret haunting the family.
Meren kasvojen edessä
1926
Kurt Jäger's silent documentary Oy Taide-Filmi Ab's Finnish President Lauri Relander's Visit to Estonia in 1925 (1925) follows the first official foreign trip of Finland's second, newly inaugurated president, Lauri Kristian Relander, to Estonia.
Suomen presidentin Lauri Relanderin vierailu Virossa v. 1925
1925
Behind the camera
8.0Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart Uolevi, and to marry Klaus Kurki, a local nobleman with money and influence. An ideal match according to her family and the greedy parish priest, but all is not as it seems: Kurki is a vicious man, tormented by the spirit of his last wife.
Elinan surma
1938
6.5Pastor Petrelius does not accept the marriage wishes of his young daughter Karoliina and Paavo Paavalinpoika. Paavo wants to prove his manhood to the pastor and enlists in the King's forces, but is wounded in the Battle of Pultava. On his return to Finland, he finds his village besieged by Cossack Captain Voronoff.
Isoviha
1939
7.0Second adaptation of Teuvo Pakkala's popular play about Finnish lumberjacks.
Tukkijoella
1937
4.2The film tells the story of a wandering barrel organ player's daily, tragic life in the back streets of the Finnish cities.
Elämän maantiellä
1927
7.1A man stays with a fisherman and his adult daughter in coastal Finland, develops feelings for the daughter and begins to uncover a terrible secret haunting the family.
Meren kasvojen edessä
1926
Kurt Jäger's silent documentary Oy Taide-Filmi Ab's Finnish President Lauri Relander's Visit to Estonia in 1925 (1925) follows the first official foreign trip of Finland's second, newly inaugurated president, Lauri Kristian Relander, to Estonia.
Suomen presidentin Lauri Relanderin vierailu Virossa v. 1925
1925
Kurt Jäger's silent documentary Oy Taide-Filmi Ab's Finnish President Lauri Relander's Visit to Estonia in 1925 (1925) follows the first official foreign trip of Finland's second, newly inaugurated president, Lauri Kristian Relander, to Estonia.
Suomen presidentin Lauri Relanderin vierailu Virossa v. 1925
1925
Engineering student Petteri and retired captain Jere Renkonen arrive in Terijoki as guests of architect Matti Marras at the villa he has rented. In the midst of everything, the owner of the villa, Russian émigré prince Asatiánts, arrives with his niece Darja. Petteri eavesdrops and learns that the prince is expecting a "man from Marseille" at the villa. This man is supposed to take a secret document hidden in a large cabinet in the hall across the border to Moscow, containing information about the hiding place of the prince's family jewels.
Mies Marseillesta
1937
