Vesa Vierikko
Birthday: Born in 1956-05-24 in Lappeenranta, Finland
Deathday: Alive
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Sisäilmaa
Character: Lanttulonkero-mies
When the employment office is haunted, performance targets troubles and indoor mold threatens, service manager Anneli Tiainen uses peculiar means in the face of an impossible situation....
Pakanamaan kartta
Character: Tapani
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Suojelijat
Character: Hård
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Hunajan maku
Character: Seppo Keinonen
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Seitsemän
Character: Varma Laakkonen
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Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Agronomi Egon Mäntykallio
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Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Asko Raappana
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Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Jorma Härmälä
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Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Sakari Falk
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Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Panttilainaamon virkailija
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Pirunnyrkki
Character:
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Downshiftaajat
Character: Simo Rimpelä
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....
Hobitit
Character: Gandalf
Hobitit is a Finnish live action fantasy television miniseries originally broadcast in 1993 on Yle TV1. Produced by Olof Qvickström, it is based on the events of the books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien....
Tellus
Character: Pekka Forsman
As a group of Finish ecoterrorists escalate their attacks, they are pursued by an environmentally conscious detective who's less radical about his activism and tries to save the earth in his own personal way....
Lihaksia ja luoteja
Character: Kake Luikku
Humoristic police series made by Kummeli comedy group. It includes some characters from Kummeli TV-series....
Ou Nou
Character: Jorma Härmälä
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Kevyttä yläpilveä
Character: Raimo
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Talvisota
Character: Jussi Kantola
Pekka Parikka's The Winter War film edited as a five-part TV series....
Team Ahma
Character: Veikko Karatajev
Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service....
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Backwood Philosopher
Character: Ooke
Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery....
The Classic
Character: Lauri Nikander
A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen....
One Foot Under
Character: Pesonen
Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live. Because of this, he is a member of a therapeutical support group for people suffering from terminal diseases. Visa's life changes when a young female reporter, Hanna Manninen arrives at the support group offering to write a series of articles about Visa's life story....
The Match Factory Girl
Character: Aarne
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge....
The Flight Before Christmas
Character: Musta Susi (voice)
A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel....
Nonstop
Character: Bum
A revolver changes hands seven times, each time serving a different purpose shot in a film style which tests the traditional story-telling form of film....
V2: Dead Angel
Character: Aarno 'Arska' Kaitainen
The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion....
Siriuksen vieraat
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Jackpot
Character: Köyri
Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting....
Lakeuden kutsu
Character: Partanen vanhempi
Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi. Erkki misses his wife Kaisu, who back in the day stayed in Finland, and his child, but will the man be forgiven for years of absence?...
Routa
Character: Lehto
A man is released from prison after 22 years. He tries to live a simple life as a farmer. At the same time, a company director is fighting a hostile takeover from a bigger corporation. Two different kind of journeys collide in sudden ways....
Esa ja Vesa – auringonlaskun ratsastajat
Character: Ossi Kemppainen
Computer professional Vesa Rajala rushes to home from a work trip because his wife Sanna is leaving for Greece with her new lover, Georgios from next door....
Land of Love
Character: Lauri Rinta-Perkiö
A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love....
Lapin kullan kimallus
Character: Jakob Ervast
In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north. The friends find gold at the first excavation site, which Kittilä's crown prince Konrad Planting and Edvard Manninen also start looking for....
Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
Character: Kapteeni Yrjö-Ylermi-Armas Kuortti
Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies....
Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
Character: Yrjö-Ylermi-Armas Kuortti
The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so....
Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät
Character: Kapteeni Yrjö-Ylermi-Armas Kuortti
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....
Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava
Character: Kapteeni Kuortti
New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy....
Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni
Character: Kapteeni Yrjö-Ylermi-Armas Kuortti
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....
Palkkasoturi
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Macbeth
Character: II Tappaja
A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself....
Sutki
Character: Sutki
Finnish comedy....
Plainlands
Character: Matero
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...
21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage
Character: Eero Manner
The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis....
Pelle Hermanni ja Hypnotisoija
Character: Pelle Hermanni
The people at Circus Hepokatti decide to throw a big surprise party for Herman The Clown, but no one seems to know when Herman's birthday is. No one has ever organized a birthday party for him before. The birthday arrangements take a surprising turn when the ruthless leader of a rival circus, the ringmaster Tilpehööri, wants Herman to be the attraction of his own circus by any means necessary. When his attempts to trick Herman fail, Tilpehööri decides to bring in the more extreme methods, and so...
My Father’s Badger
Character: Reijo
After her father's funeral, Maarit plans to return to Thailand. On the day of the departure, she finds her mother Sylvi and her father’s taxidermy badger in a bar and Sylvi makes a revelation that may change Maarit’s departure plans....
Jon
Character: Dietmar
Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too....
Ricky Rapper and Slick Leonard
Character: Lennart Lindberg
Aunt Fanny and aunt Serena try to find a suitable father figure for Ricky....
The Wedding Waltz
Character: Viltteri
Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either....
The Winter War
Character: Jussi Kantola
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....
Frozen Land
Character: Rikospoliisi Elinan kotona
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person....
Kyllä isä osaa
Character: Taksi-isäntä
The years have passed and the children have flown from the nest to the world... except they haven't. On the contrary. Jonna and Junnu have been lured back home, with the addition of Jonna's child, by a house that will soon be empty. The parents, who are of retirement age, are about to move to Spain - as soon as the father can tell his employer that he is quitting his job as a taxi driver. But the father's plans are changed when his boss buys his taxi company a new vehicle, a luxury Mercedes with...
Tootletubs & Jyro
Character: Jäärä (voice)
Able to turn abandoned items into useful tools, two eccentric bugs embark on an odd adventure in search of food and resources....
Ricky Rapper and the Miser from Seville
Character: Lennart Lindberg
Ricky Rapper gets a letter from a distant relative who's looking for an heir....
Santa Claus and the Magic Drum
Character: Juho Vaneeri (voice)
A few days before Christmas Eve the last sack of letters arrives to Santa. At the bottom is a letter that is a bit older than the others, it's a drawing. While the curious Santa tries to figure out what the drawing looks like, strange things begin to happen....
Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers
Character: Tenkanen
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Ricky Rapper and the Nighthawk
Character: Lennart Lindberg
Ricky Rapper and Nighthawk Ricky find a buried treasure while digging for worms. Archaeological excavations begin at the site, and when a valuable iron-age ring vanishes, it becomes apparent that there's a site-robbing "nighthawk" at work here....
Gotta Run!
Character: Ilpo Välikangas
Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso decides to take a job on a Norwegian oil drilling platform. Late could start working on his family's chicken farm but wants to break free from his father who has a new wife. Looking for work in Gothenburg, Sweden, he only runs into more problems and is deported back to Finland. Pyry would like to take over his late father's farm but family quarrels over ...
Brothers
Character: Waldemar
Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father’s 70th birthday: nihilistic writer Ivar, failed film producer Mitja, and resentful caretaker Torsti....
Vaiennut kylä
Character: Raikka 'Mandoliini' Kaski
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The Singer
Character: Niilo Saarikko
The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who loved beautiful women and was loved by beautiful women. A man who enjoyed speed, American cars, applause and alcohol and who finally lost everything but his unique voice....
Laugh or Die
Character: Johansson
Parikka, the actor once called the Funniest Man in Finland, and his troupe are about to be executed for the atrocities committed during the Civil War in Finland. Jaeger Lieutenant Nyborg, an admirer of Parikka, suspects a definite miscarriage of justice. He wants to save the actors. The forthcoming visit of the German General von der Goltz to the prison island provides him with a suitable opportunity. Nyborg suggests that the actors prepare a comical performance for the visitor and not be shot. ...
Pölhölä
Character: Bisnesmies
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The Storage 2
Character: Jylhäkorpi
Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is fine when Rouskun's mate deals with things. The entrepreneurs know that the poor can be, but not artificial. But what's the point for the scratchy women? Especially when Rousku gets to look in the mirror again and find out what kind of father, such a daughter....
The Storage
Character: Jylhäkorpi
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main pri...
Onks' Viljoo näkyny?
Character: Lääkäri
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The Book of Fate
Character: Professori Strömberg
Fire, water, wind, earth and emptiness... Five core elements of life that once inspired a book. The Book of Fate. Far away from here there was a mythical world -free of suffering and injustice. But it wasn't enough. People wanted to play God... They created a pen to control the Book of Fate. Mightier than a sword, it could write off deeds -and bring back the dead. But the book gave power, power caused fear -and fear brought suffering. And the suffering caused wars. Darkness fell on earth, making...
Linna
Character: Artur
Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Josef seeks to make an appointment to see the ruler Herr Klamm inside his inaccessible abode, he becomes enmeshed in abuse from lowly villagers and bureaucrats alike. His endless false starts toward the castle's enigmatic interior are partly offset by a...
Tuulikaappimaa
Character: Velipoika
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Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
Character: Synkkä Ratsastaja
The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the king becomes so sad that he wants his heart taken out of his chest. The kingdom is turned into an effective society based on reason, and there is no longer place for emotions. When she grows up, the princess tries to make her father see the importance of play and emotions....
Bohemian Eyes
Character: Self
Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää....
Syrjähyppyjä
Character: Kuosmanen
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Shadow of the Eagle
Character: Vicar
The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictatorship....
Moomins and the Winter Wonderland
Character: Narrator / Postman (Finnish version) (voice)
This winter is extraordinary; Moomintroll decides to stay awake to explore the winter instead of hibernating as usually. And winters are certainly totally different than he had imagined. Strangest creatures wander amidst the snowdrifts; midwinter darkness surrounds the Moominvalley, and on top of that, an eccentric guest is soon to appear. This guest requires many measures, and is called Christmas, Hemulen tells to a surprised Moomintroll....
Anita
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Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with the male partner, who is mainly interested in the money....
Hamlet Goes Business
Character: Actor
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?...
Uuno Turhapuro menettää muistinsa
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Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods....
Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
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This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood....
Born American
Character: Kapsky
A trio of American students vacationing in Finland cross the border into the USSR and are soon imprisoned following a skirmish with Soviet soldiers....
Pieniä valheita
Character: Erkki, pappi
The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator....
Rolli and the Secret of All Time
Character: Aavikkolaiva Ca Mél (voice)
Rolli and little elf girl Juniper along with the rest of the rollis and other strange creatures lead peaceful and rollishly fun lives in their flourishing Rolli Village. One day the inquisitive friends Rolli and Juniper hear incredible news from Malcolm the Maggot: somewhere far away, beyond mountains, forests and the sea, lies a place called The Beginning of All Time. That’s where the storks always take off on their trips to deliver babies in small bundles to their new homes. Rolli and Juniper ...
Sibelius
Character: Robert Kajanus
Director Timo Koivusalo point of view about life of classical music composer Jean Sibelius, who is a national composer of Finland....
August Fools
Character: Tohtori Borenius
An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance....
Ryhmäteatteri
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Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company....
The Mushroom Trip
Character: Rosendal
PJ, a struggling screenwriter and his best friend Jami, a successful car dealer, are fed up with how painfully stuck their heads are in their ways. They decide to do something about it and rent a cabin on the Finnish archipelago for the weekend to get their minds blown - with magic mushrooms. A little getaway between the men gets out of hand when a series of coincidences turn their plans upside down....
Herman the Circus Clown
Character: Pelle Hermanni
Herman the Clown sets out to find his father, whom he hasn't seen since he set off to measure the Earth with his feet. He is secretly followed by the son of Max the Magician, ten-year-old Roni. And so begins an exhilarating adventure full of magic, twists and colorful circus life....
The Archer
Character: Lintsi
Drug dealer Aki is taken to hospital after a violent attack where he loses his merchandise and money. One of the paramedics, old Eino, befriends Aki later in the hospital and offers him a summer job after hearing that he has training in first aid. Eino even offers Aki a place to stay next to his ambulance garage. This provides Aki a perfect hiding place from his former employers who are after him. At the garage, Aki learns about life and the art of archery from peaceful Eino, and falls in love w...
Talvipihan joulu
Character: Kornelius (voice)
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Joulukalenteri: Talvipihan joulu
Character: Kornelius
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