Fascinating Film Garden 2025
Welcome to the most atmospheric outdoor cinema of the summer at the City Museum’s courtyard! This summer’s program features the most epic love story of all time, Gone with the Wind, and, by public request, manor-themed works directed by Toivo Särkkä. The tickets are on sale now!
This summer’s Fascinating Film Garden will take the audience to manor milieus. On Friday, 15 August, we will screen two Finnish classics by public request: the Ihana Seikkailu and Kulkurin valssi films directed by Toivo Särkkä. On Saturday, 16 August, the audience will get to enjoy one of the greatest and most beloved classics of all times, Gone with the Wind.
The films will be screened with an old-time analogue 35 mm film projector. The technical implementation will be carried out by Helsingin Studiopalvelut, with whom the City Museum has been collaborating since 2018. Refreshments and film treats sold by El Fant Cafe & Wine Bar. Come and enjoy this urban courtyard, the late summer’s dusky nights and classic films on the silver screen!
Tickets
Tickets to the Friday screening €12 per film, tickets to the Saturday screening €15 per film. Tickets will be sold at the door if any are available. The seats are not numbered; please arrive in time. The doors open at 20:00. See you at the Falkman courtyard!
Programme
Friday 15 August
20:45 Ihana seikkailu (directed by Toivo Särkkä, 1962)
Toivo Särkkä’s last work as a director, and the last film script of Serp, the colour film Ihana seikkailu – A Wonderful Adventure – is loosely based on a French play of the same name and adapted to a Finnish milieu. In this romantic comedy, young Helena Ehrenheim (Pirkko Mannola) is getting married against her will, but her cousin, and her lover, Paul von Holden (Stig Fransman) arrives to stop the wedding. The film has no subtitles.
22:45 Kulkurin valssi (directed by Toivo Särkkä, 1941)
Friday night is finished off with one of the most beloved Finnish films of all times. In this vagabond movie directed by Toivo Särkkä and written by Mika Waltari, a Finnish baron named Arnold (Tauno Palo) escapes St. Petersburg and flees to Finland. On his way over, this charmer wins over the acrobat Cleo (Laila Jokimo) and the beautiful Rosinka (Regina Linnanheimo), and even the countess Helena (Ansa Ikonen) cannot resist the handsome vagabond. Kulkurin valssi is based on a song of the same name with lyrics from J. Alfred Tanner. The film has no subtitles.
Saturday 16 August
20.45 Gone with the Wind (directed by Victor Fleming, 1939)
Gone with the Wind, starring Clark Gable and Vivienne Leigh, is a story about the American Civil War and great love. On the day the civil war breaks out, Scarlett O’Hara meets Rhett Butler, and a unique connection is born. The historical drama based on a book of the same name by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1936, won a record-breaking eight Oscar awards back in its day. Subtitles in Finnish and Swedish.
Photo: Gone with the Wind. Warner Bros Pics / Park Circus Marketing.
