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Who was Aarne Juutilainen a.k.a. The Terror of Morocco? [Suomeksi] Aarne Juutilainen (1904 - 1976), also known as “The Terror of Morocco”, became a familiar figure to me when in 2018-23 I made a drama documentary about his life and times, the film which was based on a stage monologue written by Seppo Porvali (1950 – 2019). I supplemented this original monologue text with other biographical material about Juutilainen. Based on my own worldview, I had not previously considered myself the actual target audience for any war histories, but the more I read about and studied the life of Aarne Juutilainen, the more I began to be fascinated by the character's sudden contradictions and the very ingredients that legends and myths are made of. Whether they had anything to do with reality or not. In recent years, the figure who has interested the general public the most from the Battle of Kollaa (1939-40) has been the sniper Simo Häyhä (1905 - 2002), a.k.a. "White Death...

[Suomeksi] The 94-minute documentary JR29: Vaiettu rykmentti ("JR29: The Hushed Regiment") premiered on 27 April 2025 in Kaustinen, Finland. I edited this film, did other post-production (and worked a bit on the sound effects, though it was Markku Riipi who was mainly responsible for the documentary’s sound editing), and also acted as an archive editor building the visual narrative. The film was largely made by the same team that was also behind Marokon kauhu – Dokumenttielokuva suomalaisesta taistelijasta ("The Terror of Morocco – Documentary Film about a Finnish Warrior", 2024). 2025 Trailer. (CC: English subtitles) This is the story of Jalkaväkirykmentti 29 (JR29), Finnish Infantry Regiment 29, which was assembled from Central Ostrobothnia for the Continuation War of 1941-44. The regiment advanced through bloody battles on Ladoga Karelia and Olonets Karelia to Petrozavodsk, where it arrived in October 1941, and continued until the trench...