Finnish author Tove Jansson is most known for creating the enduringly popular children’s characters the Moomins, which have spanned comics, books and TV series since she first came up with them in the 1940s.
She is now the subject of a biopic, Tove, which is Finland’s submission for the International Feature Oscar this year.“Tove Jansson is the national treasure of Finland, an icon,” says director Zaida Bergroth during the film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders International. “I was really pleased [to make the film] but I was a bit worried because I needed to find my own way to the character, to feel that I was the right director to tell her story.”For actress Alma Pöysti, it was an equal level of responsibility to depict Jansson in a film
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