Paavo turtiainen biography sample

"Paavo, a Life in Five Courses" will screen to less than 100 people at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque March 15 at 3 p.m.

Turtianinen will be in attendance. 

It's a rare thing when fate walks in the door. But that's what happened to a young Finnish waiter back in 1970.

Paavo Turtiainen had a busy night ahead of him at the Helsinki restaurant where he worked.

With an 80-person party due to arrive any minute, he closed the doors and turned away anyone else looking to get in.

However, when a bossy Swedish theater producer and his actress wife knocked on the restaurant door, Paavo recognized the Hollywood starlet's face even though he couldn't quite place her.

Reluctantly, Turtiainen let the overbearing man in, and he sat him and his wife in a corner.

Little did he know the man was influential European producer Lars Schmidt. 

Lars Schmidt and Paavo