Kalevi Kahra
Birthday: Born in 1927-10-04 in Johannes, Viipuri, Finland [now Sovetsky, Leningrad Oblast, Russia]
Deathday: 1998-05-23
Kalevi Kahra was a Finnish actor with a career that spanned over four decades and included winning the Jussi Award for Best Actor in 1968 for his most highly-regarded performance as the character Adolf Halme in Täällä Pohjantähden alla (English: Here, Beneath the North Star). He served as Chairman of the Finnish Exhibition Union, the country's oldest and largest performing arts trade union, for over two decades, beginning in 1975. While most frequently appearing in comedic works, his biggest successes were in dramatic productions.
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Metsolat
Character: Arvo Iivarinpoika Vanhanen
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Hunajan maku
Character: Koistinen
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Kotikatu
Character: Maijan ystävä
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Kohtaamiset ja erot
Character: Ronkaisen vaari
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Yhdeksän miehen saappaat
Character:
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Rauta-aika
Character: Väinö
Rauta-aika (The Age of Iron) is a dramatic four-part miniseries completed in 1982 by Finnish broadcast network Yle TV2. The production attempts to adapt the national epic of Finland, the Kalevala, for the television audience by way of humanizing the mythological characters whose thoughts and actions drive the narrative. The protagonists of Rauta-aika, Väinö, Ilmari and Lemminki, have been inspired by the tales in the Kalevala and go in search of a woman, eventually finding themselves at war with...
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Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
Character: Kenraali Gustafson
Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies....
Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava
Character: Kenraali Gustafson
New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy....
Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni
Character: Kenraali Gustafson
Relations between Sweden and Finland come to near breaking point. When further negotiations led by President Mara fail, Sergeant Körmy interferes in the course of events....
Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät
Character: Kenraali Gustafson
The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons launch equipment and codes to neutral Finland....
Sista leken
Character: färjkarlen
In this somber, psychological drama about the conflict between a man's innermost feelings and a society that puts these feelings in a strait jacket, the mood is ruminative and depressing throughout. Alone, Viktor (Sven Wolter) heads off for his usual summer vacation to some islands where he can ostensibly look for antiques for his wife's shop in Stockholm. His marriage is a failure or worse -- he raped his wife before he left home, and he is obsessed by erotic imaginings. Once on the islands, he...
Hilmanpäivät
Character: (uncredited)
The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but due to the confusion, extinguishing the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected....
Me tulemme taas
Character: (uncredited)
The film tells the story of the romance between the timber rafters and widow Kaisa, her daughter Satu and Katri from Karkela. Problems are caused by the men in the village, especially the Master of Karkela, who has his own plans for widow's land....
Se alkoi sateessa
Character: (uncredited)
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Naiset, jotka minulle annoit
Character: (uncredited)
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Plainlands
Character: Teacher
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceas...
Akseli and Elina
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A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people....
Menestyksen maku
Character: Dr. Salmelin
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Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan
Character: King of Bohemia
A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom....
Lain ulkopuolella
Character: Police Sergeant
On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own ha...
Hei kliffaa hei
Character: Eki
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Pedon merkki
Character: Vääpeli
Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone....
Elämä lyhyt, Rytkönen pitkä
Character: Taavetti Rytkönen
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Here, Beneath the North Star
Character: Adolf Halme
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war....
The Unknown Soldier
Character: Recruit
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun....
The Winter War
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Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala....
The Wrestler
Character: Pesonen
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own....