Antti Litja

Antti Vilho Olavi Litja (21 February 1938 – 13 July 2022) was a Finnish actor.

Litja made over 60 film and television appearances since 1959. A prominent figure in Finnish film in the 1970s and 1980s, since the mid-1990s he mostly appeared on television.

Litja played the main character in the 1977 film The Year of the Hare about a Finnish man from Helsinki who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness.

Selected filmography

 * The Year of the Hare (1977)
 * Wonderman (1979)
 * The Solar Wind (1980)
 * That Kiljunen Family (1981)
 * The Clan – Tale of the Frogs (1984)
 * Farewell, Mr. President (1987)
 * The Glory and Misery of Human Life (1988)
 * A Charming Mass Suicide (2000)
 * Princess (2010)
 * The Grump (2014)