The Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE has digitized quite interesting films from its collections for us to see. The first two I would like to you to use are a 1966 short documentary on Kala-Eemeli ("Fish-Emil" - b. 1905 d. 1966) who lives in the wilderness of Posio in Southern Lapland with his dog, Musti ("Blackie"). During much of the film he describes the nature and why he decided to be a hermit. The last few minutes illustrate his house he build between two small ponds.
The second one is a bit longer story of Surnu-Pekka who inhabits the wilderness of Vätsäri, the most remote place in Finland situated in upper Lapland. It could be that one or both of the films cannot be watched outside Finland. Please let me know if this is the case. However both films were shot by YLE so there should not be a copyright problem in these cases.
http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=73&t=956&a=10449 (Kala-Eemeli)
http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=73&t=956&a=9938 (Surnu-Pekka)
The second one is a bit longer story of Surnu-Pekka who inhabits the wilderness of Vätsäri, the most remote place in Finland situated in upper Lapland. It could be that one or both of the films cannot be watched outside Finland. Please let me know if this is the case. However both films were shot by YLE so there should not be a copyright problem in these cases.
http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=73&t=956&a=10449 (Kala-Eemeli)
http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=73&t=956&a=9938 (Surnu-Pekka)