About Antti Litja
Lived 1938 – 2022 (aged 84). Antti Litja was a Finnish actor, stage actor and television actor.
Antti Vilho Olavi Litja (21 February 1938 – 13 July 2022) was a Finnish actor.
Career Litja made over 60 film and television appearances since 1959. A prominent figure in Finnish film in the 1970s and 1980s, since the mid-1990s he mostly appeared on television.
Litja played the main character in the 1977 film The Year of the Hare about a Finnish man from Helsinki who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness.
Selected filmography The Year of the Hare (1977) Wonderman (1979) The Solar Wind (1980) That Kiljunen Family (1981) The Clan – Tale of the Frogs (1984) Farewell, Mr. President (1987) The Glory and Misery of Human Life (1988) A Charming Mass Suicide (2000) Princess (2010) The Grump (2014)
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Who was Antti Litja?
Finnish actor
When was Antti Litja born?
Antti Litja was born on 21 February 1938 in Kamennogorsk.
When did Antti Litja die?
Antti Litja died on 12 July 2022 in Helsinki.
What was Antti Litja's occupation?
Antti Litja was an actor, stage actor and television actor.
What nationality was Antti Litja?
Antti Litja was Finnish.
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