Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Karppi, aka Deadwind, at Puu-Käpylä


Significant portions of the Netflix series Deadwind (known in Finland as Karppi) were filmed - I'm 99% certain - in Puu-Käpylä. I can't place the actual houses above (or below) but it certainly fits the look and feel. The bottom right of the above aerial shot is of the shared open space. We see this rarely, although in the first episode the first time we meet one of the significant characters in the program, Usko Bergdahl, who lives in one of these houses, he is doing some outdoor work in the snow with his neighbours in such a space. 

Usko is a taxi-driver, which I am going to guess in Finland as elsewhere is something of a blue collar job, and his wife Anna is a high profile (?!) social worker acting as a consultant to a major enviro-developer. I figure that there is a slight subtext here that Puu-Käpylä is one place where two people of very different socioeconomic backgrounds might live. That said, this is never identified as Puu-Käpylä.
Spoiler: the final episode of the first series gives what I believe to be a false impression, that these houses are joined together in their basements. I guess I could be advised otherwise but even in the show it seems to be something that has to be explained as an anomaly, so I am going to assume it's not real. 

I also doubt that the image above necessarily corresponds to the aerial shot, which is used many times in the show.  Here is a link to Puu-Käpylä however if you want to try and locate it. 

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