Acting

Marja-Leena Kouki

Born April 28, 1945 · Pori, Finland (age 81)

No biography available.

Known For

Road NorthRoad North · 2012
Road North
★ 5.82012
MovieDramaComedy
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.
The WellThe Well · 1992
The Well
★ 4.51992
MovieDrama
This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.
Kuuma kissa?Kuuma kissa? · 1968
Kuuma kissa?
★ 5.61968
MovieDramaRomance
This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The small-town school marm tries to help a male student who has been suspended for drunkenness. She tutors the young man, and soon the two engage in a tender and passionate love affair in which both people reach out and touch each other physically and emotionally.
ThomasThomas · 2009
Thomas
★ 7.22009
MovieDrama
Thomas, a former doctor, a widower, lives alone in a basement apartment in Helsinki. His routine becomes even more limited when his misanthropic brother dies, reducing Thomas' human contact to practically nil. As with many seniors, he's basically invisible to passersby, though Thomas in particular avoids engaging with those around him. When he runs into his estranged daughter Marie, he tries to create a bridge.
Two ForcesTwo Forces · 1979
Two Forces
★ 6.81979
MovieDramaWar
Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War.
PrincessPrincess · 2010
Princess
★ 5.72010
MovieDrama
Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.
Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiriTropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri · 1987
Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri
★ 6.01987
MovieThriller
A Finnish businessman finds himself at the center of an international corruption scandal.
Apinan vuosiApinan vuosi · 1983
Apinan vuosi
★ 6.21983
MovieDramaComedy
A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures.

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