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Flame 2018 Directed by Sami van Ingen Polte

A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio. All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in a 1959 studio fire. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2015.

Country Finland
Production Country Finland
Language Finnish
Spoken Language No Language
Gnere Documentary
Production Companies YLE , Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi
Release Date 26 January 2018
15 mins