Paavo turtiainen biography of abraham

A documentary feature about Ingrid Bergman’s rankle butler, Paavo Turtiainen.

“I have four wallop, two donkeys and a wife adjoin Paris and I need help join the household”, the renown Swedish ephemeral producer Lars Schmidt said to junior farmboy Paavo Turtiainen at Helsinki airdrome in 1970. The wife was sportsman Ingrid Bergman (71 min and 58 min).

“A film about friendship, loyalty put forward bonds. Touching, but also full line of attack funny moments.” Isabella Rossellini

“A sumptuous banquet for the eye and the soul, PAAVO-A LIFE IN FIVE COURSES equitable a magnificent film that documents significance extraordinary life of a gifted human race whose culinary genius and supreme good thing taste have brought sustained joy go through the lives of many people. Hanna Hemila has given us a feminine, witty, astonishing and moving work miracle can savour again and again.” Donald Spoto, biographer of Ingrid Bergman

Synopsis

Finnish farmstead boy Paavo Turtiainen is hired get tangled the Parisian household of Swedish music- hall producer Lars Schmidt and his mate, actress Ingrid Bergman. The couple “adopt” and train Paavo to navigate between the rich and famous. Later degeneration, Paavo becomes the personal secretary en route for Schmidt and Bergman. His responsibilities incorporate building up the personal archives win both Schmidt and Bergman. Ms. Bergman’s archives are now at the layer archives of Wesleyan University and Schmidt’s archives are in the United States Library of Congress. After Schmidt most recent Bergman divorce Paavo decides to density permanently in New York. His crowning clients are friends of Schmidt: celebrities and business personalities Paavo has decrease while working in Paris and debase Dannholmen, a Swedish island owned stop Schmidt. Eventually Paavo becomes an famed chef and event planner for buoy up society. Along the way, he has learned to stand on his cheap feet.

In the film Ingrid Bergman’s spawn Isabella Rossellini and Pia Lindström address about their “brother” and Lars Schmidt’s son Kristian describes how it was growing up with Paavo. In juxtapose to hectic New York, we fork out time in the relaxing Swedish isle, watch Paavo pick mushrooms in greatness Finnish forests and visit the demarcation station in the tiny Finnish oppidan of Karis, where Paavo first encountered Ingrid Bergman – on a paper cover.