The first feature film about the popular author, artist and mother of the role, directed by Zaida Bergroth and Eeva Putro writes screenplays. This will be the second time that Alma Pöysti is doing the role of Tove Jansson. In 2017, she featured the young Tove in a play at the Swedish theater in Helsingborg.

- I was so happy in the soul that I both laughed and cried a little neighbor. It is a cuddly person we are dealing with so that to make her feel great, says Alma Pöysti to Yle, about being Tove again.

Shanti Roney does Atos Wirtanen

The role of Tove Jansson's close friend, politician and cultural personality, Atos Wirtanen, will take on Swedish actor Shanti Rooney.

- He seems to have been a sympathetic man with a big smile. A hugely driven person, committed to life, politically and philosophically, Shanti Roney tells Yle.

Premiere in autumn 2020

The film, which will revolve around Jansson's younger formative years in post-war Finland during the 1940s and 50s, will premiere in the fall of 2020. It will include how Tove Jansson's bisexual triangular drama at the same time inspired the Moomin books.