
Birthday:
08-23-1905
Deathday:
02-21-1956 (50 years)
Birthplace:
Lempäälä, Finland
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Cultural Relations Between Soviet Union and Finland Start
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Documentary film.
The Witch
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event1952 star_border 6.3
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An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy...
Läpi usvan
Director
event1948 star_border 3.7
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Pertti works as telegraph operator on a ship. The ship arrives in Helsinki and Pertti looks forward to meet his mother and the neighbor girl, who he is in love. But his plans change, when he steps into a restaurant with the first officer of the ship on the first ashore.
Houkutuslintu
Director
event1946 star_border 4.8
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Marja is a prostitute who has to run away, when her pimp Jussi robs and kills one of her costumers. She finds a hiding place in a mansion on the country side. Marja falls in love with the master of the mansion, but Jussi finds out Marjas whereabouts and comes to meet her.
Young Love
Director
event1955 star_border 5.2
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Story of first love affair during summer school holidays, in a pastoral setting.
Hallin Janne
Writer
event1950 star_border 3
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In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.
Hornankoski
Director
event1949 star_border 4.3
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The brothers of Yli-Koskela farm fall for the same woman. Then Aarne believes he has killed a man. Artturi sees the case and saves the man from drowning to the rapids. He takes advantage of the situation and tells the woman, Lea, that his brother is a murderer.
Paimen, piika ja emäntä
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event1938
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Katri is hired as a maid in Ruuhiniemi. Over the years, she works hard and even dares to dream of love and being the owner of the farm, but the scheming in the division of the inheritance complicate the future.
Ylijäämänainen
Director
event1951
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A film about the destiny of cashier disappointed in love.
Putkinotko
Director
event1954 star_border 5.3
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A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina Käkriäinen are poor sharecroppers struggling to feed their ten children, so they run a liquor selling business on the side...
Pikajuna pohjoiseen
Director
event1947 star_border 4.7
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The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North. One tragedy after the other appears.
Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
Screenplay
event1955 star_border 5.3
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Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.
Lain mukaan
Screenplay
event1956 star_border 5.5
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Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the previous fall, when Patron Oppman begins to approach Maria, offering her money in return for services.
Tåg norrut
Writer
event1952
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The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North.
Kuningas kulkureitten
Director
event1953 star_border 4.5
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The young Count Martin von Tandenskiöld who has returned from the war is forced into a battle with a Russian colonel after he harasses his bride Karin. Chased by the Cossacks Martin escapes and joins the old wanderer. On the way Martin encounters adventures and beautiful women.
Suomalaistyttöjä Tukholmassa
Director
event1952 star_border 2.3
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Three Finnish girls travel to Stockholm to look for work. But soon they notice that the big city is not such a great place as they thought. Most of the foreign men who they meet there are crooks and liars.
Tukkijoella
Director
event1951 star_border 3.8
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A 3rd remake of the film based on the play by Teuvo Pakkala. Tells the story of the lumberjack group and how the lives of villagers and lumberjacks intertwine. Many loving couples are formed between jacks and village girls. At the same time, the farm of Pietola and the house matron, Katri is coveted by malicious Rättäri. He owns the IOU papers for Pietola and tries to get Katri using the IOU as blackmail.
Miljonäärimonni
Director
event1953 star_border 3
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A farce about a wealthy young man who attempts to keep up his lifestyle even in the army.
Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat
Director
event1939
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Film about Finnish war hero.
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