Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Finland, once the eternal loser and failure has become a real Eurovision powerhouse in the past few years. Finishing 6th and 2nd in the past few years and qualifying already four years in a row - fifth one coming this year - has also managed to sneak in to help other delegations like Albania last year and  this year Ari Levelä is doing stagings for Austria and Cyprus, Teemu Muurimäki who created the famous green bolero for Käärijä among others will dress up JJ and even UMK show producer (and one of Käärijä's dancers) Matti Myllyaho is involved with Austria's staging. Estonia's entry this year is co-written and produced in Finland, the Swedish entry is by Finns and then we have Finland itself in top-10 in the odds to win the whole thing. In short Finns are behind four entries in the Top-10. And Käärijä will perform in Basel as interval act. Again. That brings us to the curious situation in Finland: the media and people have pretty much forgotten about Erika Vikman and our en...

Viktor Klimenko returns to silver screen after 40 years. "I didn't accept the role right away. I was worried what my fellow believers will think " he admits. Klimenko has made a name as a religious singer after he found God in 1980. "I was close to commiting suicide. No one talked about burn out back then, I just thought I was crazy. And alone. I had a gun. I decided to check out if God exists and kneeled down to the floor to pray... and found him " he tells now. The new horrow movie Sauna is a story about sin, guilt, regret and forgiveness. Klimenko plays a Russian officer.