
Birthday:
10-11-1958
(66 years)
Birthplace:
Not available
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Shadows in Paradise
Act like Woman in Restaurant (uncredited)
event1986 star_border 7.3
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Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.
The Match Factory Girl
Production Secretary
event1990 star_border 7.3
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Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.
Hamlet Goes Business
Production Secretary
event1987 star_border 6.6
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When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Production Secretary
event1989 star_border 6.9
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The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
Ariel
Production Secretary
event1988 star_border 7.1
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A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
I Hired a Contract Killer
Production Secretary
event1990 star_border 6.9
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After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.
Lights in the Dusk
Script 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.
Fallen Leaves
Production Secretary
event2023 star_border 7.2
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In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
Macbeth
Production Secretary
event1987 star_border 4.5
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A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
The Other Side of Hope
Production Secretary
event2017 star_border 6.9
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A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
Production Secretary
event1994 star_border 6.8
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Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.
Juha
Script Supervisor
event1999 star_border 6.8
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A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Drifting Clouds
Production Secretary
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 Man Without a Past
Production Secretary
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.
The Classic
Production Secretary
event2001 star_border 6.5
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A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.
La Vie de Bohème
Script Supervisor
event1992 star_border 7.5
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Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Zombie and the Ghost Train
Production Secretary
event1991 star_border 6.9
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Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?
Goodbye, Trainmen
Production Secretary
event1992 star_border 5.9
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Small-town boys Vähy and Hapa are best friends who swear an eternal blood oath. As they grow up, however, their paths drift apart and they both find themselves searching for their place in the world.
Total Balalaika Show
Script Supervisor
event1994 star_border 6.2
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A 57-minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a number of US Rock songs sung in English (like "Sweet Home, Alabama") as well as more traditional Russian songs like the "Volga Boatman."
The Prodigal Son
Production Secretary
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.
Ripa Hits the Skids
Production Secretary
event1993 star_border 5.8
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A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.
Our Father…
Production Secretary
event1993 star_border 4.7
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Juhani Haavisto returns to his childhood home from the seas and is confronted by his wheelchair-bound, demented father Eino and the traumas of sexual abuse and violence he experienced as a child.
Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla
Production Secretary
event2013 star_border 4.6
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Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988.
Seasick
Production Secretary
event1996 star_border 1
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Eco-terrorists attack a ship carrying toxic waste.
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