Nyrki Tapiovaara:
 1911-1940. Generally regarded as the most important director to have appeared so far in the Finnish cinema. In the early and middle 1930s involved in theatre, then in film criticism and the film society Projektio. First feature film JUHA (1937), from the classic neo-Romantic novel by Juhani Aho, followed by The Stolen Death (Varastettu Kuolema, 1938) and two comedies, both in 1939, Two Victors and Mr. Lahtinen Takes French Leave. Tapiovaara was in the middle of shooting One Man's Fate (Miehen Tie), from the novel by F. E. Sillanpaa, when he was killed near the end of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, in 1940. One Man's Fate was completed by Hugo Hytonen, one of the actors. All known prints of Mr. Lahtinen were destroyed by fires, so Tapiovaara's reputation rests on some three and a half films.
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