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Risto Jarva

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Biography

Risto Jarva was a leading filmmaker in the Finnish cinema of the 1960's and the 1970's as well as one of the founders of the production company Filminor. He died aged 43 in a car accident on his way home from the premiere of his now classic film The Year of the Hare (1977).

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The Year of the Hare

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The Shoot as a Ritual of Ownership

A chain of eight films where the hunt is never really about the animal. Wild boar, kestrels, rabbits and pheasants watch while landowners, farmers and hired gun...

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Directed

The Year of the Hare

1977

Wrote

The Year of the Hare

1977

Edited

The Year of the Hare

1977