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Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja

Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 30, 2014

Runtime

0h 56m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja

Production Companies

Illume

Director

Heikki Huttu-Hiltunen

Description

"Himmlers Kantele Player" - about Finnish student, who decides to leave University of Sorbonne and walk from Paris to Helsinki in the spring of 1935. On his way, in Germany, he meets Heinrich Himmler, who is attracted by a traditional Finnish instrument, kantele. Himmler employs Yrjö as researcher to the Ahnenerbe institute to find the Aryan roots from the runic singing culture of Finnish Carelia.