
Birthday:
12-30-1936
(88 years)
Birthplace:
Tampere, Finland
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An Unknown Friend
Act like Rouva Loimaa
event1978 star_border 4
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The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off. A movie about insurance scams. Inspector Susikoski investigates.
Tuulikki
Act like old Tuulikki
event2022 star_border 8.5
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Tuulikki has a problem. She is in the throes of young love, and the world outside her window is vibrant and inviting. But her mother disagrees, not wanting to let Tuulikki out of her sight. Tuulikki fights back, but nothing seems to be making a difference. Finally, the mother-daughter relationship escalates when the circumstances prove too much for both of them.
Kalevala – The Story of Kullervo
Act like Muori
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Kullervo, mistreated, goes to war.
The Singer
Act like Hulda Simula
event2018 star_border 3.6
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The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who loved beautiful women and was loved by beautiful women. A man who enjoyed speed, American cars, applause and alcohol and who finally lost everything but his unique voice.
Linnan juhlat
Act like Olga
event2017 star_border 7.5
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In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only plane, but the Laplander Jallu agrees to drive him 1200 km (745 miles) south.
Laina-aika
event2000
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Unexpected adventures and incidents in the life of model and cashier Noora Lehtinen.
Ladies of Steel
Act like Raili
event2020 star_border 5.4
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Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and Raili join her on a trip to the Koli National Park. Will Inkeri find in her that free young woman who desired a feminist revolution in the 70s?
Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro
event1976 star_border 5.9
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It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen buys a lottery ticket for Uuno, who agrees to deduct it from his debt – and the festive dinner is reduced to a can of milk and half a sausage. As it happens, Uuno becomes the lottery winner of 1.5 million marks, only to soon realize he doesn't own a single penny yet. Mister Tossavainen arrives and offers to finance Uuno before he actually gets the jackpot. Thus, Uuno gets to live a rich live on credit. He buys a raccoon fur, leopard swimming trunks and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes. Women begin to fancy Uuno and so does his father-in-law. As time goes by it is revealed, though, that Uuno is not actually a lottery winner, and so he has to escape the anger of others to Härski's car repair shop.
Häpy endkö? Eli kuinka Uuno Turhapuro sai niin kauniin ja rikkaan vaimon
Act like Lörssönska
event1977 star_border 5.4
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Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law.
Pieniä valheita
Act like Eeva
event1994 star_border 2.7
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The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator.
Under the North Star II
Act like Emma Halme
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...
Shadow of the Eagle
Act like Aaro's mother
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.
Sibelius
Act like Vanha Aino Sibelius
event2003 star_border 4
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Director Timo Koivusalo point of view about life of classical music composer Jean Sibelius, who is a national composer of Finland.
August Fools
Act like Hattukaupan asiakas
event2013 star_border 5.5
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An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.
For the Matches
Act like Washerwoman
event1980 star_border 6.3
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In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
Towards the Day of Doom
Act like Terttu
event2014 star_border 5.7
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Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first one, drum artist Monkki Mähönen arrives for a renovation job at his old band mate's summer villa. Second story revolves around wannabe motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni who are being humiliated at a village shop. Thirdly in the 1960s, a star reporter Erkki "Likasanko" Sysimetsä starts writing a once in a lifetime story about the womanizing of Arvo Hakala, a pipe organ repair man. In the fourth story, a fantasy and sci-fi film director Kurt "Kurre" von Riikonen is looking for financing of his upcoming movie Excalibur IV with catastrophic consequences.
Entäs nyt, Niskavuori?
Act like Martta
event1987
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A Finnish TV movie based on a play by Hella Wuolijoki from 1953.
The Leaning Tower
Act like Elsa
event2006 star_border 5.5
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A middle-aged mental patient suffering from a split personality travels to Italy where his two personalities set off all kinds of confusing developments.
Little Sister
Act like Katri's mother
event1999 star_border 5
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Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryman bound to be released from service. In the same time, she dates old school friend Eero who even goes AWOL to be near her. As the war continues, Katri has to make difficult decisions about her life.
Whatever
Act like Helle Häviö (6 ep.)
event2014 star_border 6
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12-year-old Kasper is studying at the elite school Nerola. Kasper spends the day practicing and performs on stage in the evening, when the school students appear in their own television program. However, Kasper is not happy. He constantly dreams of Ida, a girl he has never met. Living in a foster family 13-year-old Ida wants to have the attention of the entire world, and especially of her biological mother.
Sorry about that
Act like Olga (13 ep.)
event2024
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Senja starts school at a junior high school occupied by well-to-do children. Senja has to lie about her social class and pretends to be rich.
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