Pekka Lipponen - Rantasalmi, Finland - Famous Fictional Figures on Waymarking.com

Pekka Lipponen character has made Rantasalmi famous. To celebrate Pekka Lipponen in August of 2009 this wooden statue was revealed here in Myllyranta park near the Hotel Rinssi Eversti. Statues is made by artist Pentti Kontturi from Rantasalmi.

"Haapakoski began his most successful series in 1945, when he created his famous characters, Kalle-Kustaa Korkki and his stuttering friend, the businessman Pekka Lipponen. Their adventures were also adapted into radio plays and into screen. Pekka Lipponen is a genial and childish country man from Rantasalmi, an international enterpriser who speaks with rural dialect, takes small drinks, whereas his friend Kalle-Kustaa is a more traditional hero, strong and hard-boiled. Outsider published his original text in the same year under the title HUUHKAJALINNAN KAVIOMARSSI, but the screenplay was written by Ilmari Unho, the director, and Kaarle Hirvonen, who later worked as a history teacher at the University of Helsinki. In the story Pekka Lipponen is the central character, not Kalle Kustaa of the title. Pekka arrives from South-America to Finland. He is followed by to international criminals, Henry William and Mary Morton. Pekka has inherited his uncle Teodor, and goes Huuhkalinnan manor. The plot then includes Latin American mandolin players, a chess board, diamonds, an ape-man fron travelling circus, horse and dynamite. In spite of the popularity of the characters in radio play productions, only two films were made: Kalle Kustaa-Korkin seikkailut (1949), starring Joel Rinne and Reino Valkama, and Rantasalmen sulttaani (1953), shot in Spain, Morocco, and Helsinki. " Quoted from weblink below

Character Type: Literature Character originator: Outsider - Aarne Haapakoski Internet Link: [Web Link] Address or Location: In park of Myllyranta near Rinssi Eversti Hotel at Ohitustie 5 58900 Rantasalmi

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