Jarkko Lahti
Birthday: Born in 1978-01-01 in Kokkola, Finland
Deathday: Alive
Jarkko Santeri Lahti (born 1978) is a Finnish actor. He is best known for his role as Olli Mäki in the film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016), for which he received the Jussi Award for Best Actor. Lahti has also appeared in films Sparrows (2015), The Unknown Soldier (2017), Helene (2020) and The Woodcutter Story (2022).
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Alamaailma Trilogia
Character: Tarmo 'Tare' Kuusisto
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Tuntematon sotilas
Character: Viirilä
The Unknown Soldier miniseries expands the story of the 2017 film of the same name. The World War II series based on Väinö Linna's classic novel closely follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army on the Karelian front during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, from mobilization in 1941 to the Moscow Armistice in 1944. It's a story about how camaraderie, humor, and a desire to survive connect men on their journey. War upends the lives of both the individual soldiers ...
Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Hannes
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Zone B
Character: Vartija
A tight group of friends, fired with unquenchable energy and enthusiasm, has come together to help two friends shoot a music video in time to get to a big competition in East Helsinki. Minor setbacks are not going to faze them, but then come some major problems, threatening not only their jobs but their loyalty to each other....
Exit
Character: Hasse
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DikDek - Painajainen majatalossa
Character: Kurt ”Kurre” Jormanainen
Tapsa Mäkilä quits his job as a private detective and starts running a dilapidated inn with his spouse Anna....
Huone 301
Character: Joel Leppo
Summer 2007, Finland. While the Kurtti are spending their annual holidays in their cabins in the land of a thousand lakes, the family is struck by a tragedy: Tommi, 2 years old, is killed by a gunshot. Elias, a 12-year-old neighbour, is blamed for the death of the child. 12 years later, the family receives a threatening anonymous letter and the secrets start to unravel, and show how far each of them are willing to go for their loved ones....
Pohjoisen tähti
Character: Harri Nikkilä
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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Franky Five Star
Character: Vater Harri
When things get too much, Franky checks into a hotel, which exists only in her head. The hotel is the home of four entirely different personalities, who alternately rule over her actions in real life....
Je'vida
Character: Teacher
Iida, an elderly Sámi woman, who has abandoned her roots under the pressure of forced Finnishization, is conflicted between selling her old homestead and hiding her cultural heritage from her niece, as the rural way of life she has suppressed begins to creep back in....
Kinnunen
Character: Pasi
Amazing adventures of a Finn in Estonia. A Finn in search of wife....
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
Character: Olli Mäki
Summer 1962 and Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing. From the Finnish countryside to the bright lights of Helsinki, everything has been prepared for his fame and fortune. All Olli has to do is lose weight and concentrate. But there is a problem – he has fallen in love with Raija....
Sparrows
Character: Darijo
The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík. She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis....
Trainer
Character: Simo
Rise and fall of Jari Sarasvuo, as he transforms from a media person to business training guru during the crazy years of the 1990s and 2000s, just before the financial crash....
Moonshiners
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Re-imagined version of the now lost first Finnish film. Two siblings inherit all the essentials for a good life: moonshine equipment and a pig. As they embark on their journey, business is good until a card shark arrives....
The Tiger
Character: Markus
On a winter evening Dad returns home drunk. A quarrel breaks out. Dad has a shotgun. Tiger and Mom escape the house and a haunting silence falls. Tiger must return inside to see what has happened....
The Last Ones
Character: Manager
Tundra of Lapland, Finland. Rupi, a young man who fills his days dealing and drinking, works in a mine hoping to raise enough money to escape the desolate village where he lives....
Helene
Character: Gösta Sundman
Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside. It has been years since the last exhibit, and Helene continues to paint only because of her passion. Everything changes when art dealer finds Helen and her 159 wonderful paintings - and wants to organize a big private exhibit. However, Helen's turning point comes only when she is introduced to Einar Reuter. Young Einar is a forester, art enthusiast, and a passionate admirer of Helene's work. He ...
Citizens
Character: Marko
Bad luck forces two men to resort to Plan B....
Scrap-Mattila and the Beautiful Woman
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A silent film about a sorrowful man who's searching for a buyer for his goods and acceptance for his existence....
Unknown Soldier
Character: Viirilä
The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel)....
The Woodcutter Story
Character: Pepe
An open-pit mine is unearthed in an idyllic town in Northern Finland. A strange chain of dreadful events affect the life of Pepe, a kind and optimistic woodcutter. But no matter what happens, Pepe seems to be fine with it, as if he holds a secret of existence that is hard to grasp....
Three in Love
Character: Jaakko
Tomi finds himself in love with two women and his wife Maria finds herself in a situation where she has to deal with the fact that Tomi is the love of her life....
Maria's Paradise
Character: Lawyer
A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standing up against Maria, the woman who had saved her....
Häyhä
Character: Simo Häyhä
The story of legendary Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä....