Esko Hukkanen
Birthday: Born in 1927-10-23 in Iisalmen mlk, Finland
Deathday: 2016-07-22
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Velipuolikuu
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Lehmän vuosi
Character: Kullervo Väkeväinen
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Team Ahma
Character: Sotilasmestari Jaakko Ahma
Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service....
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Siriuksen vieraat
Character: Aatos Kärmeshauta
Anders flees his drug debts to his former home village. Once there, he must come to terms with his past....
The Snow Queen
Character: Narri
A Finnish live action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The tale centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Kerttu....
Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
Character: hautajaisvieras
Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their lives have changed considerably. Anna is a war widow; Martti a writer, is married, and has five children....
The Blue Mammy
Character: Paavo
Deaf artist Joel lives with his parents on a small farm, where he and his paintings are not appreciated....
Kaikki pelissä
Character: vaihdemies Hallikainen
A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist....
The Life of Aleksis Kivi
Character: Runeberg
Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä". Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, he is still considered one of the greatest of them all....
The Last Wedding
Character: Hirvi-Ierikka
Pekka arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reached a dead end. The people of the village gather to prepare for the event, and the bitter spectrum of all human life, with its joys and sorrows, is condensed into one summer's day....
The Wrestler
Character: Painija
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own....
The Manila Rope
Character: Vääpeli
Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizin...
Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma
Character: Bird Owner at Bar
The 21st-century tale centers on taciturn detective Lipton Cockton as he looks into a series of murders involving exploding victims. The main clue in the case is the white halter dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in the subway vent scene in The Seven Year Itch. This clue directs Cockton to the highest levels of the super company LTD Prods. But though Cockton tries and tries, he cannot get there and ends up himself blown to smithereens....
Lyrics and Lace
Character: Romponen
Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people. It's not just a romantic legend. In wry but basically directionless Finnish movie, Paavo Pentikainen plays one of these ungainly beings, a man whose last published work is decades in the past, who probably hasn't written anything in years, but who still has an uncanny knack for precise observation, "pinning the tail on the donkey" almost every time. I...
Pekko ja muukalainen
Character: kunnanlääkäri Kaarlo Marttinen
A Black man arriving in Tyräaho causes consternation among the villagers. Meeri Aavasuo wants an adopted child and to promote the cause, she tries to get Pekko as her husband, whose heart still beats for Pipsa. Beauty salon owner Kaisa Kuovi's and her policeman Reino's baby goes missing....
Pekko ja massahurmaaja
Character: kunnanlääkäri Kaarlo Marttinen
Pekko is jealous when Pipsa is under the spell of the handsome Markku. The children Kalle and Katariina enjoy each other's company. Beauty salon owner Kaisa Kuovi and police officer Reino are preparing for their wedding....
Pekko ja unissakävelijä
Character: Kaarlo Kunnanlääkäri
Pipsa has fallen prey to a shady scientist Kalevi. Pekko tries to save her....
Kuolema käy kuusi beessä
Character: Carpelan
Grandmother returns from the grave to haunt her family....
Anna-Liisa
Character: Isä
Minna Canth's tragic story, based on real events, about the life of a young girl, Anna Liisa. Burdened with heavy guilt, Anna Liisa struggles internally amid pressure from those around her. In the end, the only option left is to face the truth and seek reconciliation....
Simpauttaja
Character: Kuuno Taivainen
During the spring harvest, a strange man arrives in the village on the shores of Lake Pielinen, carrying a rifle and a backpack. He is a skilled worker, a ruthless talker, and a ladies' man. By the time the autumn snow falls, the village has changed. No one can quite figure out the man. He calls himself Simpauttaja. Based on Heikki Turunen's award-winning debut novel, the film is a tragicomic portrayal of rural change....
Romanovin kivet
Character: Jussi Hilli
This action packed Finnish thriller tells the tale of two friends who get their revenge against the millionaire who double-crossed them. Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, but almost lose their lives when he double-crosses them. They turn around and get revenge, his money, his wife, and his daughter....
Rampe & Naukkis – kaikkien aikojen superpari
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The musical characters Rampe and Naukkis became popular from the TV series Hymyhuulet and Pulttibois, where they told jokes to each other in the cleaning closet during breaks. In reality, the characters only appeared in the Pulttibois series....
Ursula
Character: hoitolaitoksen lääkäri
18-year-old Ursula wants to be an adult, but Mårten and Harri, both in their thirties, do not. Ursula ends up becoming a drug courier for the men....