Esko Pesonen
Birthday: Born in 1925-01-11 in Muurame, Finland
Deathday: 2016-04-15
TV Credits
Iso viulu - kaks sataa
Character: Oikeusneuvos Karpén
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Enon opetukset
Character: isoisä
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Lentsu
Character: Siljander
Influenza virus wreaks havoc in Finnish common people. Eventually, the virus ends up on motorist Toivo Kesseli and puts his life on the verge of destruction....
Movie Credits
Viimeinen keikka
Character: Volanen
After the death of an old bandmate, the surviving musicians head to the funeral....
Tie
Character: Isäntä raveissa
A drama based on the lives of children and parents in a small farming family. Based on Esko Raennon's novel Tie....
Trench Road
Character: Taisto Oksanen
After his wife leaves him, a man becomes obsessed getting his family back together by buying an old house....
Tuulikaappimaa
Character: Parturi
An arctic comedy about the childlike, sincere Kauko and his desire to grow up. It is a story about two brothers who accidentally end up in each other's pants. In the Lapland summer night, they encounter lovers, petty criminals, and Kauko, who is learning the ABCs of love....
Sujut
Character: Soutava sotamies
The Finnish army retreats during the war summer of 1944. Corporal Lauri Ojala is left on the wrong side of the Vuoksi River. He decides to break ranks with the army and goes home. Two months later, Ojala is forced to dig his own grave....
Kolme yötä
Character: Ovimikko
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The Wrestler
Character: Kuikkaniemi
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own....
Flame Top
Character: Chief editor
This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, working as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics, he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as a result, had to run back to Finland to hide. Once established in the...
Lahja
Character: Hokkanen
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....
Marja
Character: Kaali-isäntä
When Marja becomes pregnant as a result of an unauthorized relationship, the man denies the whole relationship. A pregnant young woman is left alone. Marja ends up with an illegal abortion when there are only bad options ahead....
Minä, siili ja trumpetti
Character: Kettunen
The story of Ailu's summer, which he spends on an island with his trumpet and hedgehog for company while his father is at work. His ingenuity is put to the test when lonely Ailu tries to find things to do and entertain himself....
Juhannushäät
Character: ylivääpeli Vartio
The young non-commissioned officer Voitto travels with his bride Marjata to spend a wedding in his childhood home in Lapland. On the wedding night, both have to confront their past....