The Wild North (Finnish: Villi Pohjola) is a 1955 Finnish Western comedy adventure film written and directed by Aarne Tarkas. The film is starring by Tapio Rautavaara and Elina Pohjanpää.
The film was not a box office success, generating losses of four million Finnish marks, and the film's reception was also mixed. However, the film received two sequels in 1963: Gold from the Wild North and The Secret Valley in the Wild North.
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Plot
The time of the events is not specified in the film and the events are said to take place in the fictional town of Utopila in the Wild North, a place that "cannot be found on maps and encyclopedias." Karin Turkka, searching for the murderer of her geologist father and a map of a lost gold deposit, arrives in Utopila, where the village community, ruled by Mayor Markus, directs her to the trail of Tundra-Tauno, former guide of her father and the suspect of the murder.
Cast
Tapio Rautavaara as Tundra-Tauno
Elina Pohjanpää as Karin Turkka
Matti Oravisto as Officer
Aino-Maija Tikkanen as Maija
Matti Tamminen as Mayor Markus
Leo Jokela as Cardsharp