![]() ![]() She also had an affair with Vivica Bandler (played by Krista Kosonen), a married theatre director. ![]() In the 1940s, Jansson was briefly engaged to politician and philosopher Atos Wirtanen (played by Shanti Roney), who is said to have been the inspiration for the Moomin character Snufkin. This scene was filmed in Jansson’s actual studio, which still stands much as she left it, in central Helsinki. ![]() Tove Jansson (Alma Pöysti) works on a painting. The first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, appeared in 1945, at the beginning of the period covered by the film Tove. She first published a storybook while she was still a teenager, and proceeded to work as an illustrator and political cartoonist for periodicals. Born in Helsinki, she studied at leading art academies in Stockholm, Helsinki and Paris. (Swedish is one of the official languages of Finland, and Tove was filmed in Swedish.)īoth of Jansson’s parents were artists – her mother worked as an illustrator and her father as a sculptor. In addition to writing and illustrating the Moomin books, the Swedish-speaking Finn also received acclaim for her paintings, comic strips, novels and short stories. ![]() Tove Jansson (1914–2001, played by Alma Pöysti) became internationally famous as the inventor of the Moomins, characters that appeal to children and grown-ups alike. The movie Tove (premiere Octoin Finland), takes place in post-war Helsinki during a formative period in Jansson’s life. ![]()
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