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This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandinavian design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    103 minutes
  • Language
    English, Finnish
  • Country
    Finland
  • Director
    Virpi Suutari
  • Screenwriter
    Virpi Suutari, Jussi Rautaniemi
  • Producer
    Timo Vierimaa
  • Executive Producer
    Martti Suosalo, Virpi Suutari
  • Cinematographer
    Heikki Färm, Jani Kumpulainen
  • Editor
    Jussi Rautaniemi
  • Sound Design
    Olli Huhtanen
  • Music
    Sanna Salmenkallio