Timo Bergholm

Biography

Timo Kaarlo Bergholm (born August 14, 1941 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish theater director who worked as a director of Yleisradio's Television Theater from 1966 and as a theater manager from 1967, 1986. Bergholm graduated from Teatterikorkeakoulu in 1965. Before his career at Yle, he worked as a director at MTV Theater and as an assistant at Svenska Teatern . Bergholm's TV directing work includes Heinard Kipphardt's play Oppenheimer's Case (1967), Aleksandr Gelman's Palkkio (1977), Maria Jotun's Martini rikos (1980) and the political miniseries Hyvä veli 1, 6 (1995, 1996) and President's Man 1, written by Mauno Saari ., 3 (1998). He wrote and directed the film Little Red Riding Hood (1968), for which he was awarded Jussi for best director in 1969. A characteristic feature of Bergholm's production is social criticism. At the end of the 1960s, he and the entire television theater were accused of being far-left, but in his own opinion it was just cultural radicalism. TV cabarets such as Luule with us (1968), Sirkus Europa (1968), Oma (1969) and his own favorite, the two-part story of a thousand and one jobs (1970) caused a lot of outrage. Bergholm has a daughter with Marjut Komulainen , film director Hanna Bergholm.