{"id":2156440,"date":"2025-11-14T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2156440"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:56:21","slug":"elisa-viihde-commissions-for-estonia-and-finland-the-war-propaganda-satire-helsinki-1939-from-shadow-lines-creator-aj-annila-its-based-on-true-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/elisa-viihde-commissions-for-estonia-and-finland-the-war-propaganda-satire-helsinki-1939-from-shadow-lines-creator-aj-annila-its-based-on-true-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisa Viihde Commissions for Estonia and Finland the War Propaganda Satire \u2018Helsinki 1939,\u2019 From \u2018Shadow Lines\u2019 Creator Aj Annila: \u2018It\u2019s Based on True Lies\u2019 (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Soviet Bombs fall on Helsinki. This is 1939. Best-selling Finnish novelist Mika Waltari<\/a> (\u201cThe Egyptian\u201d) fights with his typewriter to create true lies for the Finnish Propaganda Unit to deceive the enemy. Meanwhile war correspondents, including one of the greatest \u2013 the American Martha Gelhorn, Ernest Hemingway<\/a>\u2019s wife to be \u2013 chase the truth. Side by side, propagandists and reporters find shelter at Helsinki\u2019s grand neo-Renaissance Hotel K\u00e4mp.<\/p>\n

These engrossing true events will be dramatized under the pen and direction of Aj Annila<\/a> in the series \u201cHelsinki 1939,\u201d to be pitched at Tallinn TV Beats Co-financing Market Nov. 17.<\/p>\n

The six-part series produced by Take Two Studios\u2019 Eero Hietala<\/a> and Sara Norberg<\/a>, has landed an order by leading streaming service Elisa Viihde<\/a> for Finland and Estonia.<\/p>\n

Annila, whose career kicked off with the genre pics \u201cJade Warrior\u201d (2006) and \u201cSauna<\/a>\u201d (2008), has made a name in recent years with high-end character and visually-driven series such…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soviet Bombs fall on Helsinki. This is 1939. Best-selling Finnish novelist Mika Waltari (\u201cThe Egyptian\u201d) fights with his typewriter to create true lies for the Finnish Propaganda Unit to deceive the enemy. Meanwhile war correspondents, including one of the greatest \u2013 the American Martha Gelhorn, Ernest Hemingway\u2019s wife to be \u2013 chase the truth. Side […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2156441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2156440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Elisa-Viihde-Commissions-for-Estonia-and-Finland-the-War-Propaganda.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156442,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156440\/revisions\/2156442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}