Acting

Kyösti Erämaa

Born October 23, 1899 · Parainen, Finland

Died November 14, 1961 · aged 62

Kyösti Erämaa (October 23, 1899, Parainen - November 14, 1961) was a Finnish actor. Before his film career, Kyösti Erämaa worked as a wrestler. He maintained his physical condition and started as an operetta hero, including the Koiton Show. The Wilderness later moved to the Bread of the Workers' Show in Oulu, and moved from there to Helsinki, where he starred until his death. He was the director …

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Tukkijoella

Tukkijoella · 1937

Second adaptation of Teuvo Pakkala's popular play about Finnish lumberjacks.

Veteraanin voitto

Veteraanin voitto · 1955

Veteraanin voitto

Timo learns about his grandfather Santeri's background in the workers' sports movement. Inspired by this, he begins to encourage his alcoholic father to practice his own sport, javelin throwing.

Kolmas laukaus

Kolmas laukaus · 1959

MovieDramaCrime

Inspector Susikoski is inspecting the murder of an agronom in the countryside, during his summer holiday trip. He participates to the investigation of the case. The case seems to be clear, but there is much more than meets the eye.

Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa

Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa · 1934

Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa

MovieDramaDocumentary

A documentary or rather a bulletin style movie about Finnish Air Forces in the 1930s.

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut · 1960

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut

The unlucky layabout Isarkar Keturi brings a criminal gang to heel with the help of his assistant Mikael. He frees Irma, the daughter of mining magnate Tömstet, from captivity and a forced marriage to Kurt. Irma achieves her dream of becoming a pop star, with Isaskar's help.

Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa

Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa · 1955

Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa

Justiina gives lessons to friends who are avoiding work and sends them to work. Pekka and Pätkä end up in a woodworking factory, where their job is to nail together the legs of a Christmas tree. The men think they will get rich this way, but through misadventures they end up in many different jobs and being chased by a crowd of admiring women.

Kaunis Kaarina

Kaunis Kaarina · 1955

MovieDramaRomance

Kaarina, an orphan girl raised by Taneli, the innkeeper, notices that her friendship with her childhood friend Antti is turning into romance. Henrik, the patron, also has his eye on Kaarina.

Sven Tuuva the Hero

Sven Tuuva the Hero · 1958

Sven Tuuva the Hero

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.

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Tukkijoella

Tukkijoella · 1937

Second adaptation of Teuvo Pakkala's popular play about Finnish lumberjacks.

Aaprahammi Turkka

Veteraanin voitto

Veteraanin voitto · 1955

Veteraanin voitto

Timo learns about his grandfather Santeri's background in the workers' sports movement. Inspired by this, he begins to encourage his alcoholic father to practice his own sport, javelin throwing.

Kolmas laukaus

Kolmas laukaus · 1959

MovieDramaCrime

Inspector Susikoski is inspecting the murder of an agronom in the countryside, during his summer holiday trip. He participates to the investigation of the case. The case seems to be clear, but there is much more than meets the eye.

Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa

Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa · 1934

Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa

MovieDramaDocumentary

A documentary or rather a bulletin style movie about Finnish Air Forces in the 1930s.

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut · 1960

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut

The unlucky layabout Isarkar Keturi brings a criminal gang to heel with the help of his assistant Mikael. He frees Irma, the daughter of mining magnate Tömstet, from captivity and a forced marriage to Kurt. Irma achieves her dream of becoming a pop star, with Isaskar's help.

(uncredited)

Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa

Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa · 1955

Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa

Justiina gives lessons to friends who are avoiding work and sends them to work. Pekka and Pätkä end up in a woodworking factory, where their job is to nail together the legs of a Christmas tree. The men think they will get rich this way, but through misadventures they end up in many different jobs and being chased by a crowd of admiring women.

Headless Man (uncredited)

Kaunis Kaarina

Kaunis Kaarina · 1955

MovieDramaRomance

Kaarina, an orphan girl raised by Taneli, the innkeeper, notices that her friendship with her childhood friend Antti is turning into romance. Henrik, the patron, also has his eye on Kaarina.

(uncredited)

Sven Tuuva the Hero

Sven Tuuva the Hero · 1958

Sven Tuuva the Hero

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.

Kun isä tahtoo…

Kun isä tahtoo… · 1935

Kun isä tahtoo…

Sock manufacturer August Lampaanpää finds himself in financial difficulties due to the upkeep of his girlfriend Kyllikki Mattler, appeasing his wife, and opposing his daughter Vappu's plans to marry car mechanic Manne Hietikko.

Lampaanpään sihteeri

Rakas varkaani

Rakas varkaani · 1957

MovieComedyRomance

Lissie is a pickpocket who escapes from the police by pretending to be the wife of the absent-minded Leopold. Leopold falls in love with the young woman, but Lissie is more interested in the valuables she finds in the wealthy professor's apartment.

(uncredited)

Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina

Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina · 1957

Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina

At Justiina's insistence, Pekka and Pätkä are looking for work again and end up starting a detective agency. The first assignment takes the duo on a cruise on Lake Saimaa. Traveling on the same ship are representative Johannes Kulo and his daughter Maija, as well as the lumberjack Jussi, who gets caught up in the duo's misadventures.

(uncredited)

Opri

MovieDramaComedy

Opri is an evacuee from Karelia and is forced to move into a nursing home when his cottage is demolished. He immediately begins to take care of other elderly residents and nursing home staff, as well as their romantic concerns, as soon as he steps into his new home.

(uncredited)

Verta käsissämme

Verta käsissämme · 1958

Verta käsissämme

After returning home from being a prisoner of war Viktor gets a job from his friend Rolf with whom he had served. The men trust each other until Viktor meets Rolf’s wife Astrid.

(uncredited)

Halveksittu

Halveksittu · 1939

Merchant Iivari encounters significant challenges in his entrepreneurial career when Merthen, a commercial counselor, attempts to prevent his success. Merthen's daughter Verna falls in love with the honest Iivari, who is not acceptable as a son-in-law to the Merthen family.

(uncredited)

Rikollinen nainen

Rikollinen nainen · 1952

Rikollinen nainen

Eeva Isokari flees her home from the jealousy of her husband, judge Lauri. The next day, a body is found on the railway tracks. Lauri thinks his wife is dead. The woman, who has lost her memory, has ended up in a prison run by her husband. Known in english as A Woman of Crime.

(uncredited)

Herra sotaministeri

Herra sotaministeri · 1957

Herra sotaministeri

Kalle, a shy and absent-minded civil servant at the comparison agency, unwittingly becomes Minister of War. He receives help in his new role from Maria, the daughter of Finance Minister Karpio. Problems in the performance of his duties lead Kalle to a court martial, and he resigns from his ministerial post to start a new life with his neighbor Leena.

Evert Hackman (uncredited)

Scandal in the Girls' School

Scandal in the Girls' School · 1960

Scandal in the Girls' School

MovieComedyHistory

The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the school. In addition to the loosening morals of the students, the warm relationship between two girls is a causing concern.

Mathias Alexander

Aktivistit

Aktivistit · 1939

MovieDramaHistory

In 1916, Finland is still a part of Russian Empire. Eugen Schauman murders the governor of Finland, and his fellow activists take on smaller tasks in the fight for freedom.

Jäger

Varsovan laulu

Varsovan laulu · 1953

MovieDramaCrime

A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.

(uncredited)

Neiti talonmies

Neiti talonmies · 1955

Neiti talonmies

MovieComedyRomance

After her mother's death, Irja, an evacuee girl, finds herself in a poor financial situation. Working as a housekeeper for her former teacher on a starvation wage, her situation improves when she is hired as a janitor at a secondary school. Despite the opposition of Principal Kuusi, she decides to take the matriculation examination and, in order to improve her writing skills, responds to a correspondence advertisement placed by the mysterious Master Ahtojää.

(uncredited)

1918

Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.

(uncredited)

Koskenlaskijan morsian

Koskenlaskijan morsian · 1937

Koskenlaskijan morsian

MovieDramaHistory

Tornionjokilaakso at the end of the 19th century, Paloniemi's landlord Heikki tries to get out of his financial difficulties with the help of his son Juhan and Nuottaniemi's only daughter Hanna. The happiness of Hanna, who has fallen in love with Antti of Rehti Koskenalusta, is threatened by the evil and dangerous Korpikoski.

(uncredited)

Autuas eversti

Autuas eversti · 1958

Colonel Carolus von Haestman, presumed dead by his family, awakens from his deathbed and sets out to find his childhood sweetheart, Amelie. His children and grandchildren, in turn, set out to find the runaway lovers. In the end, the funeral turns into a wedding and honeymoon.

(uncredited)

Helmikuun manifesti

Helmikuun manifesti · 1939

Helmikuun manifesti

MovieDramaHistory

February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.

(uncredited)