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News / 2010 / Mannerheim Feature Film Project Revived  

Shooting is to resume on the long-planned feature film Mannerheim, to be directed by Renny Harlin. Producers Markus Selin and Jukka Helle reported Monday that a financing deal with a German production company has put the project back on track.
The subject of the biopic, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, is an iconic figure in Finnish history. During his career, he was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, the commander of the winning White forces in the Finnish civil war, Finland's commander-in-chief during WW II and President from 1944 to 1946.
Planned as the most expensive production in Finnish cinematographic history, the production was suspended a year ago when Danish financiers pulled out of the project.
According to Helsingin Sanomat, the film's production company, Solar Films, has now contracted financial backing from German film producer Harald Reichebner's European Enterprises S.A.
The deal included also the Hungarian company HCC Media Media Group as  Production Partner.
The total budget for Mannerheim is reported to be close to 13 million euros. Although at least another million in financing is still needed, Solar Films says that shooting can now be planned for the autumn.

Solar Films., established in 1995, is the leading production company in Finland in the fields of feature films and TV productions. Films produced by Solar Films have won altogether 26 Finnish Movie Awards and attracted over three million viewers in theaters. Besides feature films, Solar Films has also produced thousands of hours of extremely varied TV drama and entertainment for Finnish TV channels. The shareholders of Solar Films are Nordisk Film and Markus Selin (Head of Production and Chairman of the Board).

Solar Films' subcompany Liberty Production is the company for the production of Mannerheim..