
Birthday:
11-12-1962
Deathday:
08-11-2023 (60 years)
Birthplace:
Espoo, Finland
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Producing Adults
Act like Jarmo Heiskanen
event2004 star_border 5.2
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Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand
Act like Veli / Kit Carson
event2014 star_border 4.8
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A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time
Sotapoika
Act like Eino
event1993
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During the Continuation War, mother Kaarina and son Erkki live at home in a small town while father has been sent to the front. One day the family's life is turned upside down when the father returns home as a deserter from the front .
Changes
Act like Taisto
event2014 star_border 5.3
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Living in the Herttoniemi suburb in Eastern Helsinki, 12 year olds Antti and Muhis have been best friends since kindergarten. Muhis is from a Somali background, and the boys’ friendship is put to test when a local racist lays his hands on Muhis. A struggle ensues, and Antti accidentally shoves the man off of a cliff, into the sea. The boys swear never ever to tell anyone and to take their secret to their graves. Changes is a life-affirming film about friendship, growing up, tolerance and courage.
The Winter War
Act like Erkki Somppi
event1989 star_border 7
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Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala.
The Prodigal Son
Act like Ade
event1992 star_border 5.4
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Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.
There Will Be Spring
Act like Leo
event2020 star_border 5.3
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Late 40’s after the war. Strange languaged and religioned immigrants fleeing from Karelia region are hated by Finns in the countryside. 19-year old Anni is living her life wanting to forget the war and hostility surrounding her. Falling in love with a man who hasn’t left fighting, threatens Anni’s whole family’s future and hope for mutual forgiveness..
The Good Son
Act like Kari
event2011 star_border 4.8
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When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality.
Johanneksen leipäpuu
Act like Ulosottomies Taskula
event1994 star_border 5
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Manical portrait of a small businessman.
Jäänmurtaja
Act like Jorma
event1997
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14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes Dad move away and replaces him with Mutanen, the worst player in the local hockey team. Petri finds out a way to get the best out of Mutanen on ice: before a game, he has to be made really angry so his adrenaline gets flowing.
The Winter War
Act like Erkki Somppi (5 ep.)
event1991
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Pekka Parikka's The Winter War film edited as a five-part TV series.
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