Camera

Kurt Jäger

Born — Died

1898-10-14 — 1965-12-10

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Camera

Credits

8 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Elinan surma poster
8.0

Young 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

Isoviha poster
6.5

Pastor 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

Tukkijoella poster
7.0

Second adaptation of Teuvo Pakkala's popular play about Finnish lumberjacks.

Tukkijoella

1937

Elämän maantiellä poster
4.2

The 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

Meren kasvojen edessä poster
7.1

A 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

No artwork available
7.0

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

No artwork available
7.0

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

No artwork available
8.0

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