
Birthday:
01-31-1978
(47 years)
Birthplace:
Not available
Biography
Sampo Sarkola (born January 31, 1978) is a Finnish actor.
He graduated from the Swedish language course at the Helsinki Theater Academy. From 2004 to 2016, he was an actor in the Swedish-language Lilla Teatern of the Helsinki City Theatre.
In 2011, he won the Jussi Award as the best supporting actor (for his role in the film "Kohtaamisia").
He graduated from the Swedish language course at the Helsinki Theater Academy. From 2004 to 2016, he was an actor in the Swedish-language Lilla Teatern of the Helsinki City Theatre.
In 2011, he won the Jussi Award as the best supporting actor (for his role in the film "Kohtaamisia").
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Under the North Star
Act like Vilho Koskela
event2009 star_border 6.5
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Based on the novel by Väinö Linna, the story takes place during the time of the Finnish Civil War.
Yellow Sulphur Sky
Act like Jakob Rabell
event2021 star_border 6.8
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In his youth, the author Frej has already found a deep connection and passion with an upper-class girl, Stella Rabell, that has lasted between them through the decades. When Stella's older brother Alex falls victim to a stabbing attack, Frej begins to reminisce about the events of decades past. Frej's memories from the bright 1970s to the present day are filled with love, jealousy, betrayal, life and death.
Snot and Splash: The Mystery of Disappearing Holes
Act like Avantovaras
event2024 star_border 5.9
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Snot and Splash travel to their grandmother's house in the small town of Mouthwash for a winter holiday. Once there, they discover that everything is a little off in what used to be a very ordinary town. The strangest thing is that holes are disappearing from the town. Snot and Splash set out to investigate and manage to get on the trail of a local dentist, Migrén Junior. However, the investigation is in danger of failing when messy Snot and diligent Splash get into an argument with each other. How can Mouthwash be restored and the holes put back in place if the boys can't work together? The only way to restore the world is for the brothers to work together.
Beyond the Front Line
Act like Kaustinen
event2004 star_border 6.2
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A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced some of the most grueling battles against the Soviet Union.
From Matti with Love
Act like Ex-vaimon mies
event2019 star_border 4.7
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Divorced, middle-aged Matti picks up Maša near the Finnish-Russian border. Maša was waiting for a different man called Jukka, but agrees to go with Matti when he claims he is a friend of Jukka's.
Things We Do for Love
Act like Toivo
event2013 star_border 5.5
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Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness.
Apeiron
Act like Umbra
event2013 star_border 3.2
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Umbra is a scientist who wants to prove his theory that human beings are ruled by chance and devoid of any purpose, and as a consequence some become evil and cruel.
The Girl King
Act like Theology Student
event2015 star_border 6.3
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A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Hyväveli
Act like Jokisalo
event2022
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Patrolman Loyan tries to find his place in the new police department while keeping his friend Warsame, newly released from prison, on the right track. Loyan's ambition is to get into detective training, but his supervisor Jokisalo thinks he'd be better off patrolling the familiar neighbourhoods with his partner Johanna. The patrol gets down to business when they start investigating what looks like a suicide. Antero Päiviö, a professional criminal and racial bigot involved in drug trafficking, has jumped from his balcony. The man who was first pronounced dead suddenly wakes up and is taken to hospital. Loyan finds it hard to believe the man's story and decides to find out the truth at any cost. As the plot unravels, it's hard to know who to trust anymore, when Warsame seems to be up to something behind Loyan's back.
Summertime
Act like Tommy
event2014 star_border 5
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25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best summer city in Finland!
Hiljainen viikko
event2012
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A short film about guilt and forgiveness. A shooting incident takes place in front of a small town disco in Northern Finland. Two witnesses have to cope with loss, sorrow and guilt.
Lapland Odyssey 4
Act like Eläinlääkäri
event2022 star_border 3.9
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Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle.
The Locker Room
Act like The Locker Room
event2024
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Two boys in middle school are forced to confront their biggest fear: the school’s locker room.
The Eternal Road
Act like Strang
event2017 star_border 6.9
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Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
Priest of Evil
Act like Johannes Heino
event2010 star_border 5.5
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Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Harjunpää is unable to recover from the loss of his family. He seeks revenge against his daughter's killer, while in his work he investigates strange deaths in the Helsinki metro that turn out to be the work of a serial killer.
Secret Society of Souptown
Act like Arttu Peltomaa
event2015 star_border 6.2
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Four children - Mari, Sadu, Olav and Anton form a secret society to play hide-and seek games invented by Mari's grandfather, a professor at the university. When the city is attacked by a mysterious poison which turns adults into children our gang embarks on a quest for the antidote.
Heroes of the Baltic Sea
Act like Daniel Bielke
event2017 star_border 10
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The movie version of the 2016 adventure series Heroes of the Baltic Sea.
Dance on Thin Ice
Act like Pappa
event2017
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Dance On Thin Ice tells the story of Felix, a twelve-year-old boy who is left to spend Christmas alone while his parents travel to India. A reluctant Felix ends up as an ice cream seller at a deserted swimming stadium, where the surface of the pool has frozen solid. But the swimming stadium is not completely deserted after all. Felix meets a dark-haired refugee girl called Fakira, whose parents were killed in a bombing in Syria.A dreamlike story where two young strangers to each other, a boy and a refugee girl, meet under unusual circumstances. Together, they make the impossible possible.Dance On Thin Ice is a story about alienation and the latent power of being different. The main characters of the film are misfits. In their own way, there is something “wrong” with them, but at the same time, something unique. Together, they right a wrong. The film shows the world through the eyes of a child, on a child’s terms. The themes of the film are tolerance and overcoming oneself.
Goliath
Act like Örjan
event2019 star_border 6.8
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Goliat is set in a small industrial town somewhere in Sweden. When Roland is sentenced to prison, his son, 16-year old Kimmie, is expected to provide for the family by taking over his dad's criminal business. This is a task he's not ready for. The film's depicting a boy's brutal entry into adult life and examines aspects of social heritage and patriarchal structures, at a time when the welfare is declining and Sweden is at change.
En kväll på krogen
Act like Alexander
event2011 star_border 1
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A story about an evening in a restaurant. Six tables, seven stories, a tragicomedy about the fantasies and realities of love.
Abyssus
event2019
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A man regains consciousness as he is being buried alive. A pure nightmare fuel for the opening short-movie.
Vinski and the Invisibility Powder
Act like TV reporter
event2021 star_border 5.5
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10-year-old Vinski feels like an outsider and invisible among his age-mates, and even with his single mother Krista. Vinski meets a mysterious pharmacist who gives him a bottle of magical powder. A powder, that allows you to become invisible for real and walk through walls. It is fantastic to have the powers of a super hero, but soon a group of crooks becomes interested in the secret of invisibility as well.
The Two and Only
Act like Anders
event2013 star_border 4.9
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Hanna is a 30 something single woman from Helsinki. She has a good job and great friends and has almost given up on finding the Mr. Right. One night, Hanna meets Markus, a dark stranger who sweeps her off her feet.
Under the North Star II
Act like Vilho Koskela
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...
Heartbeats
Act like Make
event2010 star_border 5.6
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Seven stories of women. Occasionally intersecting with each other in everyday situations. Parallel episodes of hope and abandonment, addiction and infidelity, but also friendship and trust.
Harbour Brothers
Act like Junnu
event2004 star_border 6
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Finland in the 50s saw a time where boats from all over the world docked in the harbor city of Kotka. In addition to transporting goods, the sailors brought with them another import: jazz, swing and blues. A tale of music-loving, fearless and passionate young men decide to open Fennia, a jazz bar. Soon Fennia achieves legendary status and the men; the Harbour Brothers, play their music and hold court like emperors.
Shadow of the Eagle
Act like Aleksi
event2005 star_border 3.2
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The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictatorship.
Dawn of War
Act like Finnish Spy Hannu
event2020 star_border 6.2
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A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
Bordertown: The Mural Murders
Act like Lasse Maasalo
event2021 star_border 6.7
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A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge.
Hella W
Act like Businessman
event2011 star_border 4.7
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The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.
Den dödes bror
Act like Johan
event2014
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Karin has no idea what she wants from life but thinks she finds the answer at her father-in-law's funeral.
Crime and Punishment
Act like Svidrigailov
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A modern adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, set in contemporary Helsinki. Raskolnikov, a struggling law student, commits a brutal murder, believing himself above the law. As guilt and paranoia consume him, he spirals into a mental and moral crisis, all while the relentless lead investigator closes in on him.
Nurses
Act like Roope (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 7.9
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Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding and inspiring task of saving lives in a system that sometimes seems designed to do the opposite.
Mobile 101: The Nokia Story
Act like Jorma Ollila (6 ep.)
event2022 star_border 8.1
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Made in Finland is a reality-based drama about telecommunication company Nokia's first steps towards global success. Who were the young and resourceful lawyers, the brilliant engineers and the and the forward-thinking director whose courage saved the whole company?
The Happy Hour of the Wolf
Act like Janne (8 ep.)
event2019
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After Janne suddenly disappears while taking out the trash, the police tell Heta there’s nothing they can do - a person has every right to go missing if there is no sign of a crime. Troubled, she begins searching for and finds only one clue: it seems Janne had undergone Koistinen’s radical divorce therapy for men.
The Hunters
Act like Karl Lindmark (12 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7.4
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Erik returns to the northernmost of Sweden after a lifetime with Stockholm police save The Hunters (1996) and False Trail (2011). Retirement doesn't become him so he helps his nephew Peter, a rookie at the local police.
Shadow Lines
Act like Olavi Suominen (18 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7.3
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During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral country that stood between the East and the West. Shadow Lines is an international spy thriller that follows a secret intelligence team whose mission is to defend the independence of Finland no matter the cost.
Peacemaker
Act like Oskar Rantala (10 ep.)
event2020 star_border 4.8
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Finnish peace negotiator Ann-Mari Sundell has recently retired from her post as a crisis response adviser in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Suddenly, she is invited by the UN mandate to lead an international conflict resolution process in Turkey. As the peace talks proceed, Ann-Mari has to reconcile with her past before her personal life comes in the way of the whole peace process.
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