Virke Lehtinen (5 August 1940 – 4 June 2022) was a Finnish film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He was also the main owner of , a Finnish film production company which started in 1964. Lehtinen's first breakthrough film project was the short film (The Market Place) in 1962. It was the incentive which gave the start for the careers of director Erkko Kivikoski, then 27 and cinematographer Virke Lehtinen, 22, with experienced editor , then 30. Their film won Silver Bear for Best Short Film of the Berlin International Film Festival. Next year the trio made the feature (This Summer at Five), which got an enormous popularity and personal awards for the trio and entered 14th Berlin International Film Festival.