Kallorumpu

Decades in the making, a film finally has its premiere in a derelict Helsinki warehouse. Its maker once lived downstairs in a Kaivopuisto house whose upper floor was rented by Marshal Mannerheim and his daughter Sophie, and his camera retraces one day there in November 1935. Statesmen, officers, maids, actors, a celebrated singer and an uninvited guest in a moth-eaten sable wander through the rooms towards an elegant dinner that ruined the filmmaker's life, while he, the last witness alive, keeps interrupting.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

389 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland, 1935

First published

2011 by Teos

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9789518514131 (original)