Acting

Vappu Jurkka

Born November 8, 1927 · Viipuri, Finland

Died April 12, 2012 · aged 84

Vappu Jurkka (1927–2012) was a Finnish stage, film and television actress. She was the daughter of actors Eino and Emmi Jurkka and sister of actors Sakari and Jussi Jurkka.

Known For

BaddingBadding · 2000
Badding
★ 5.52000
MovieDrama
The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
Professori Uuno D.G. TurhapuroProfessori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro · 1975
Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro
★ 6.11975
MovieComedy
Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany.
RintamalottaRintamalotta · 1956
Rintamalotta
★ 7.31956
MovieDramaWar
Irma has been sent to the front immediately after her marriage to Erik Vuori. Irma and her new "Lotta" companions find themselves in many dangerous situations during the fighting of the Continuation War. Irma is also concerned about Erik's loyalty.
KelloKello · 1984
Kello
★ 4.51984
MovieDrama
Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers to as a "consumption unit," and his irritating, rigid wife. After a tedious train journey, Valjakka decides to leave his wife. He manages to escape to a station restaurant, where he meets an unusually honest man who has been abandoned and a straightforward woman.
Butterfly's DreamButterfly's Dream · 1986
Butterfly's Dream
★ 7.01986
Movie
A young woman finds a hidden bit of film about her mother's youth, a film which somehow seems linked to her own life.
Kolme suudelmaaKolme suudelmaa · 2006
Kolme suudelmaa
★ 5.72006
MovieDramaComedy
A comedy about lecturer Sakkas, who devotes himself to history in order to find meaning in the world. What happens when a man's frozen heart begins to thaw?
White MarbleWhite Marble · 1998
White Marble
★ 6.21998
MovieDramaComedy
Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi's 75th birthday at an old people's home where most of their friends are already staying. Just before the festivities Ossi suddenly disappears and goes on tour to 'make an inventory of his life'. He checks into a hotel, poses as a publishing director to lure an aspiring female novelist, next travels to bother his old mistress and her new husband with his surprise visit and obnoxious comments, then goes to see his son for the first time in 34 years just to receive an even colder treatment. Meanwhile, his equally demented wife goes looking for him with a local policeman.
Back to the USSRBack to the USSR · 1992
Back to the USSR
★ 5.91992
MovieDramaComedy
Reima Elo ends up trying to commit suicide when he is abandoned by his wife Molla. He is also the village's laughing stock due to his communism. At a critical moment, a Lenin lookalike from Russia named Vladimir rescues him.

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Fire-EaterFire-Eater · 1998
Fire-Eater
★ 5.41998
MovieDrama
The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged...

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