Saara Kotkaniemi
Birthday: Born in 1986-08-27 in Helsinki, Finland
Deathday: Alive
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Pientä laittoa
Character: Johanna
Teppo, who works as an officer in Sodankylä, loses everything after he suffers a brain stroke, forcing him to move to Helsinki to rehabilitate....
Syke
Character: Emmi
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 an...
Downshiftaajat
Character: Heini
A successful thirtysomething couple find themselves at a financial dead end; they are faced with an extreme lifestyle change to pay for their debts. The luxury lifestyle ends when they are forced to move into a rented apartment in the suburbs. But to their friends, they hold up a facade and explain it all with downshifting....
Karppi
Character: Silja Rautamaa
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....
Ratamo
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A Russian oligarch's spying on the Finnish government and power battle with Kremlin push Finland to the brink of war with Russia. It is up to Finnish Secret Police detective Arto Ratamo to expose the oligarch's ruthless manoeuvres before Russia invades Finland....
Aallonmurtaja
Character: Meri
A married couple leading a criminal organization specialized in smuggling ends up in the middle of the international crime business while trying to protect their family....
Mies joka kuoli
Character: Taina Kaunismaa
Jaakko, a mushroom entrepreneur, finds out too late that he has been fatally slow-poisoned by persons unknown. He sets out to find the culprits before he dies....
Pohjoisen tähti
Character: Maria Pudas
Police work, boxing and family life in Lapland! Maria Pudas (Saara Kotkaniemi), a former boxing world champion, investigates crimes with her partner Samu Pajala (Karim Rapatti) in Lapland. The life of Maria's cordial and slightly chaotic family (Iina Kuustonen, Eero Saarinen, Katariina Kaitue and Heikki Ranta) changes when Maria's father Esko has a seizure and it is revealed that he has debts of 500,000 euros. In order to save her family, Maria decides to return to the ring once more, and to res...
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Mad from the Sun
Character: Miina
Miina’s morning routine is interrupted when she finds a small plastic bag taped to the window. Inside, she finds a bloody human ear. The ear sends Miina back in time to relive her first teenage love affair with Lukas....
No Thank You
Character: Beautiful young woman #2
Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only interested in playing computer games, dressed in worn out fleece pants. For him, a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won't help, Heli resorts in direct, and increasingly direct action - in vain....
Last Cowboy Standing
Character: Maria
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....
The Mine
Character: Ada Koljonen
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine...
Guilt
Character: Nora
Guilt is a high concept thriller that follows Tomas, a man who joins a violent criminal gang in an attempt to find his sister. As he delves deeper into his mission, his moralities waver and his obsession starts to consume him....
95
Character: Baarimaija
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation....
The Night Thief
Character: Pregnant Woman
The Night Thief is a warmhearted drama set in the suburbs of Helsinki, Finland. It tells the story of a Somali man, Farah, whose car starts to disappear mysteriously at night. Although the car always shows up in the morning, Farah starts to run late from work, and fears that he could lose his job. Farah’s wife is moving to Finland from Somalia and if Farah were to get fired, his wife’s residency permit would be in danger. Due to the circumstances, Farah decides to do whatever it takes to catch ...
Täydellinen joulu
Character: Paula
Woman whom have kids with 4 different guys invites her ex-husbands and kids to Christmas party....
Driving Lesson
Character: Minna
Minna is taking driving lessons. The teacher starts to behave inappropriately....
Carrier
Character: Janika
Janika takes advantage of her pregnancy by smuggling amphetamine from Tallinn to Helsinki with her brother....
Power of Love
Character: Saara
Saara and Robert are living a love that is free from traditional conventions and role models. They set off to an extensive summer holiday on a lonely island in the Finnish archipelago where the tension between them escalates and becomes a fight for survival....
Wedding of the Century
Character: Caisa
A celebrity psychiatrist struggles to find a date for a wedding. Her dearest ex is getting married and she needs to find someone fancy enough to hide the fact that she is lonely, drinks too much and is pretty fucked up in any imaginable way....