Literature is full of triangle dramas, but very few of them can beat Juhani Aho′s Juha(1911) for its deepness of emotions and understanding of all three parties. The story is straight-forward and strong, yet full of detail, just waiting to be ruined by cinematic means. I had planned to film Juha almost as long as we had planned to make a silent movie with composer Anssi Tikanmaki. One day we were clever enough to put the ideas together and catastrophe was ready. Afterwards I am not surprised that almost all efforts (except Tati′s Mon Oncle) to make a silent film during the last decades have somehow failed; the easiness of explaining all by words has polluted our storytelling and reduced it to a pale shadow of original cinema. We can never again make films like Broken Blossoms, Sunrise or Queen Kelly because ever since film started to gamble with mumbling and all that hoochie-coochie′ and fancy words, stories have lost their purity and innocence--the essence of cinema. (Aki Kaurismaki)