
Birthday:
12-07-1946
Deathday:
01-28-2025 (78 years)
Birthplace:
Viljakkala, Finland
Biography
Sulevi Antero Peltola (December 7, 1946, Viljakkala – January 28, 2025, Helsinki) was a Finnish actor. He graduated from the acting course at the Finnish Theatre School in 1968 and thereafter worked as an assistant to Rauni Mollberg and Mikko Niskasen, among others. Early in his career, Peltola was involved in the founding of the KOM theatre. He frequently collaborated with director Matti Ijäs.
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Man Exposed
Act like rakennusneuvos
event2006 star_border 5.8
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A story of a priest, who considers himself as a rebel is suddenly asked to run for bishop of Turku.
Last Cowboy Standing
Act like Taikuri
event2009 star_border 6.6
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In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present.
Helsinki, Forever
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2008 star_border 6.9
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Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years.
The Wedding Waltz
Act like Öövini
event1988 star_border 6.5
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Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.
Autumn Ball
Act like Hairdresser Augusti Kaski
event2007 star_border 5.6
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Autumn in Estonia, where six people live, six solitudes, prisoners of the monotonous architecture of Soviet-era concrete buildings, in search of human companionship, of love, of a ray of light in an ocean of gray.
Frozen Land
Act like Teuvo 'Teukka' Hurskainen
event2005 star_border 6.9
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When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.
Tears of April
Act like Konsta
event2008 star_border 6.3
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There is civil war in Finland between "Whites" and "Reds". A woman soldier of the Reds is captured by the Whites. She is ordered to be executed. A lieutenant is enforced into a homosexual relationship with his commanding officer to save the Red female with whom he is infatuated.
Il prossimo tuo
Act like Usko
event2009
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Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymous "thy neighbor." A humanity full of differences, but at the same time, with very similar feelings. So similar that their stories appear almost parallel and complementary.
Aikalainen
event1984 star_border 3
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A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Koomikko
Act like Ambulanssimies
event1983
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Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying to capture and sell their art on videotape. Hepi charms a girl working in the Zoological Museum with his imitations of bird sounds. Alienated look at the frustrations of show business, as presented by a cast of popular Finnish TV comedians with their absurd dialogue and eccentric inside jokes.
White Marble
Act like Toriseva
event1998 star_border 6
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Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi's 75th birthday at an old people's home where most of their friends are already staying. Just before the festivities Ossi suddenly disappears and goes on tour to 'make an inventory of his life'. He checks into a hotel, poses as a publishing director to lure an aspiring female novelist, next travels to bother his old mistress and her new husband with his surprise visit and obnoxious comments, then goes to see his son for the first time in 34 years just to receive an even colder treatment. Meanwhile, his equally demented wife goes looking for him with a local policeman.
Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
event1979 star_border 8
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Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self wants her to marry another man than his sober personality wants.
Dirty Hands
Act like Hoederer
event1989 star_border 5.3
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A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.
A Summer by the River
Act like Puukko
event1998 star_border 6.5
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Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.
Pearls and Pigs
Act like Police Officer
event2003 star_border 6.2
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When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.
Dolly and Her Lover
Act like Karisto's assistant
event1990 star_border 5.8
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Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal activities. Alcoholic Dolly takes Räpsy to live in Kallio, Helsinki, and hopes to move to Paris with her in the spring.
Legenda - Pieni ihmetarina valtatien varrelta
event1989
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A small gas station is held in the grip of a sinister trio of men until a rugged stranger, acting as the protector of truckers, appears on the scene. He puts the villains in order. At the same time, a legend of wonder is born, and the gas station begins to attract the crippled and burdened, awaiting healing
The Prodigal Son
Act like Detective Lieutenant Salminen
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.
Boy Upside Down
Act like Rafu
event2014 star_border 6
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A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.
Seitsemän veljestä
event1979 star_border 5
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The story of the seven Jukola brothers in 19th century Finland.
The Dinosaur
Act like Self
event2021 star_border 6.6
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Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur looks at the relentless, often disturbing directing techniques behind Mollberg’s art and success.
Jussi Pussi
Act like Veistäjä - vasemmistolainen ylioppilas
event1970 star_border 3.6
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Jussi, a student admired by all women, is inadvertently selected to represent both left-wing and right-wing parties in the parliamentary elections. All Jussi cares about is the beautiful, blonde Irmeli.
Raamit ränniin
Act like Laitinen
event1985
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A boy dreams to become like his ski jumping idol Jari Puikkonen. However, his parents are worried because he neglects the school. One day while going on practice, he rescues a baby left in a car with no parking brake hooked back up. The baby happens to be Puikkonen's son.
Fire-Eater
Act like Arvo
event1998 star_border 5.4
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The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged...
Tatu and Patu: An Oddsville Christmas
Act like Martti
event2016 star_border 4.7
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A young girl and her two friends from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville make plans to celebrate Christmas together, but when she is late to pick them up from the train station, the pair wander out on their own leading to a delightful series of hilarious mishaps, inventions, and flights of fancy - until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.
Petos
Act like metsätyömies
event1988 star_border 5.2
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The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go into hiding after the heist.
Geography of Fear
Act like Aaro Parkkinen, meritutkija
event2000 star_border 4.7
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When her sister is mugged and raped, Oili, a young female forensic dentist, meets a group of abused women who have taken matters to their own hands to make the living in fear and just letting it happen stop.
Johanneksen leipäpuu
Act like Johannes
event1994 star_border 5
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Manical portrait of a small businessman.
The Temptation of St. Tony
Act like Uncle Vanja
event2009 star_border 7
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A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being a good person questions his morality as he faces the challenges of middle age and loses control of his life.
Happier Times, Grump
Act like Kolehmainen
event2018 star_border 6.8
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The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when the life walks in, all of a sudden. The granddaughter needs the stubbornness and wisdom of her grandpa. In return, The Grump gets a meaning for his life – and a big secret.
Kissan kuolema
Act like Masa, koulukodin ohjaaja
event1994 star_border 5.3
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In the closed community of a reform school for teenagers, the principal's daughter is found sexually molested. The schoolgirls seem to know more than they are willing to tell.
Bad Luck Love
Act like Silander
event2000 star_border 5.8
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A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka, a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy.
The Last Ones
Act like Rupi's Father
event2020 star_border 4.5
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Tundra of Lapland, Finland. Rupi, a young man who fills his days dealing and drinking, works in a mine hoping to raise enough money to escape the desolate village where he lives.
Lights in the Dusk
Act like Supervisor
event2006 star_border 6.7
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Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.
The Man Without a Past
Act like Unemployment Office Manager
event2002 star_border 7.4
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Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
A Stone Left Unturned
Act like Erkki
event1999 star_border 7.8
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The relationship between a father and his son is an infinite story with very few words. Silence is golden when it comes to expressing emotions.
Naked Harbour
Act like Driver
event2012 star_border 6
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Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter week all its characters face something irreversible.
Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth
event1968 star_border 6
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Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois
The Other Side of Hope
Act like Poker Room Operator
event2017 star_border 6.9
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A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Drifting Clouds
Act like Man at Nelia
event1996 star_border 7.6
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The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
The Grump
Act like Helminen
event2014 star_border 6.8
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A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law.
Blue Corner
Act like PK
event2002 star_border 6.2
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Dreams perimeter Matti Ijäksen has written and directed, praised to the skies domestic film, which is in addition to starring always convincing trace Knocking Petteri Summanen and Sulevi Peltola. It is therefore goes without saying that expectations were high in its case. But how it happened? Dreams own peripheral clearly some form of casing, which does not let therein, but hits the deck of the cut made without the kehääkin - Joint events yhteenparsimisen means.
Blindfolded
Act like Opettaja
event1999 star_border 6.3
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Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.
Promise
Act like Kirkkoherra Kirkkonummella
event2005 star_border 5.6
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The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
Under the North Star II
Act like Preeti Leppänen
event2010 star_border 7.4
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Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Ricky Rapper and the Nighthawk
Act like Museum guard
event2016 star_border 6
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Ricky Rapper and Nighthawk Ricky find a buried treasure while digging for worms. Archaeological excavations begin at the site, and when a valuable iron-age ring vanishes, it becomes apparent that there's a site-robbing "nighthawk" at work here.
The Wrestler
Act like Ruumisautokuski
event1985 star_border 5.9
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An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
Lahja
Act like Pylvänäinen
event1997 star_border 5
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A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.
Vares: Private Eye
Act like Pornokauppias Viljanen
event2004 star_border 6.2
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On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
The Handcuff King
Act like Eskon isoisä
event2002 star_border 5.9
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It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang.
The Town Manager
event2007
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Juupio is a small town losing population somewhere in Finland. Town Manager Koskinen is facing a tough situation: the people in Juupio are old and the financial situation is tight. A consolidation of municipalities with Pyhälä seems like the only option. It would take a miracle to save Juupio.
Deadwind
Act like Tuomas (12 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.9
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When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.
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