Alma Poysti, who portrays Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson in the biopic “Tove,” has a personal family connection to the role. In 1949, Jansson premiered the stage play of “Comet in Moominland” ...
A formative decade in the life of bisexual, Swedish-speaking, Finnish visual artist and author Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins. Born in 1914 and raised in an artistic, bohemian family in Helsinki ...
The Finnish biopic 'Tove' stars Alma Poysti as Tove Jansson, the complicated woman who created the Moomins. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic For non-Nordic viewers who only know of Tove ...
Art, love, jealousy and freedom are themes at the heart of Tove, the biopic of Swedish-Finnish Moomins creator Tove Jansson (Alma Pöysti). Her drawings of the hippo-like Moomintrolls became world ...
It’s 1943 in Helsinki, Finland, and Tove Jansson is putting on her first solo art exhibition under the guise and shadow of her father, the famous sculptor Viktor Jansson. Her demeanor seems almost ...
“Tove Jansson is the national treasure of Finland, an icon,” says director Zaida Bergroth during the film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders International. “I was really pleased [to make the film] but I ...
"What started as a distraction, became her biggest achievement." Helsinki-Filmi has just debuted the first official sales trailer for the film Tove, a biopic about the life of acclaimed Finnish artist ...
Finn Family Moomintroll sat untouched on my childhood bookshelf for years after an initial attempt to read it. Books like The Phantom Tollbooth, The Cricket in Times Square, and Danny the Champion of ...
A film based on Tove Jansson’s 1972 novel The Summer Book has premiered in London. Emily Matthews plays nine-year-old Sophia, who comes to spend the summer with her grandmother on a small island off ...
A formative decade in the life of bisexual, Swedish-speaking, Finnish visual artist and author Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins. Born in 1914 and raised in an artistic, bohemian family in Helsinki ...
In many parts of the world, you would never need to explain that Tove Jansson was the creator of the lovable hippo-like creatures named the Moomins. In Jansson’s native Finland and neighboring Sweden, ...
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