Antti Litja Explained

Antti Litja
Birth Date:	1938 2, df=yes
Birth Place:	Antrea, Finland
Death Place:	Helsinki, Finland

Antti Vilho Olavi Litja (21 February 1938 – 13 July 2022) was a Finnish actor.^{[1] [2]}

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.^[3]

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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Näyttelijä Antti Litja on kuollut. Helsingin Sanomat . 13 July 2022 . Finnish.
2. News: Näyttelijä Antti Litjan kuolinilmoitus julkaistiin Helsingin Sanomissa. Ilta-Sanomat. 31 July 2022. fi. 31 July 2022.
3. Web site: Suominen . Raili . Elämää jäniksen selässä . Turun Sanomat . 15 July 2022 . Finnish.