Pekka Strang
Touko Laaksonen aka Tom of Finland
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Feb 24, 2017 · Tom of Finland: Directed by Dome Karukoski. With Pekka Strang, Seumas F. Sargent, Chris Myland, Alf Myreen. Award-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski brings to screen the life and work of artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland), one of the most influential and celebrated figures of 20th-century gay culture.
- Dome Karukoski
- 26
- 2 min
Tom of Finland is a 2017 biographical drama film directed by Dome Karukoski and written by Aleksi Bardy. It stars Pekka Strang as Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, a Finnish homoerotic artist. [6] Tom of Finland premiered on 27 January 2017 at Gothenburg Film Festival and was released theatrically in Finland on 24 February 2017. [3]
- $1.8 million
- Dome Karukoski
- €3.8 million
- Hildur Guðnadóttir, Lasse Enersen
Currently you are able to watch "Tom of Finland" streaming on Hoopla. It is also possible to buy "Tom of Finland" on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Vudu as download or rent it on Amazon Video, Vudu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Kino Now online.
- 2017
- Touko Laaksonen , Tom of Finland; Veli; Kaija
- Dome Karukoski
Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images " by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade. [2]
- Erotic illustration
- Touko Valio Laaksonen, 8 May 1920, Kaarina, Finland
- Puupäähattu Prize (The Finnish Comics Society, 1990),
- 7 November 1991 (aged 71), Helsinki, Finland
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Feb 24, 2017 · Overview. Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children.
