1. Jack Witikka was a Finnish film director and screenwriter.
12 Facts About Jack Witikka
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Jack Witikka studied theater in England and the United States, among other places.
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Jack Witikka began his career as an advertising manager at Paramount Films Oy and as a managing director at Parvisfilm.
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In 1949, Jack Witikka started work as a director at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, from where he moved to the Finnish National Theatre in 1953.
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Jack Witikka was well known for directing modernist plays at a time when it was still rare and conservative plays were the norm.
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Jack Witikka was awarded the Jussi Award for Best Short Film for the 1949 film Before the Premiere.
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Absurdist comedy Motherless, which Jack Witikka had arranged for the theater, was the third joint project of Chorell and Jack Witikka.
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Between the last two Chorell films, Jack Witikka directed Silja - Sleeping Young, a second film adaptation of Frans Emil Sillanpaa's classic novel of the same name.
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Nevalainen and Jack Witikka continued their collaboration in the film Man from this Star.
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Jack Witikka's last film was Little Presents, which was an adaptation of Simo Puupponen's novel of the same name.
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Jack Witikka died on 28 January 2022 at the age of 85 after a prolonged illness.
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Jack Witikka is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.