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Esko Töyri

Born September 6, 1915 · Helsinki, Finland

Died November 4, 1992 · aged 77

No biography available.

Known For

Taistelujen tie · 1960

Taistelujen tie

★ 10.01960

MovieWarDocumentary

The film depicts Finland's actions in the Winter War and Continuation War using a compilation of material collected from narrators, map images, and TK photographers.

Erehtyneet sydämet · 1944

Erehtyneet sydämet

★ 3.71944

MovieDrama

After being harassed at the office by her boss, Eila gets sacked and tries to find a new job. After difficulties, she eventually begins to work as a model to a sculptor.

Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned by the International Conference of Science, at Geneva, to study body function and survival in outer space. Holmes had discovered Wolf as a pup in the forest, only to lose him again in a flood, and is fearful of risking the dog's life again.

Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu · 1962

Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu

★ 6.61962

MovieComedyCrime

A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for the police.

Saariston tyttö · 1953

Saariston tyttö

★ 5.71953

MovieDrama

Liisa, the daughter of fisherman Simeon, is having a romance with Peter, a city dweller who has arrived on the island. Liisa feels she is being punished for her forbidden feelings when her fiancé Antti's sister Maija falls ill with diphtheria and Antti is lost at sea in a storm.

A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina Käkriäinen are poor sharecroppers struggling to feed their ten children, so they run a liquor selling business on the side...

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.

Miljonäärimonni · 1953

Miljonäärimonni

★ 5.01953

MovieComedy

A farce about a wealthy young man who attempts to keep up his lifestyle even in the army.

Filmography

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Taistelujen tie · 1960

Taistelujen tie

★ 10.01960

MovieWarDocumentary

The film depicts Finland's actions in the Winter War and Continuation War using a compilation of material collected from narrators, map images, and TK photographers.

Director of Photography

Erehtyneet sydämet · 1944

Erehtyneet sydämet

★ 3.71944

MovieDrama

After being harassed at the office by her boss, Eila gets sacked and tries to find a new job. After difficulties, she eventually begins to work as a model to a sculptor.

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu · 1962

Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu

★ 6.61962

MovieComedyCrime

A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for the police.

Director of Photography

Saariston tyttö · 1953

Saariston tyttö

★ 5.71953

MovieDrama

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Miljonäärimonni · 1953

Miljonäärimonni

★ 5.01953

MovieComedy

A farce about a wealthy young man who attempts to keep up his lifestyle even in the army.

Director of Photography

Näkemiin Helena · 1955

Näkemiin Helena

★ 7.31955

MovieDramaRomance

A melodrama based on Aino Räsänen's novel of the same name, continuing the story of the Junkker family.

Director of Photography

Kummituskievari · 1954

Kummituskievari

★ 5.51954

MovieComedy

Log driver brothers and crooks compete in trying to find loot of an old bank robbery in a supposedly haunted inn.

Director of Photography

The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North.

Director of Photography

The brothers of Yli-Koskela farm fall for the same woman. Then Aarne believes he has killed a man. Artturi sees the case and saves the man from drowning to the rapids. He takes advantage of the situation and tells the woman, Lea, that his brother is a murderer.

Director of Photography

Here, Beneath the North Star · 1968

Here, Beneath the North Star

★ 6.81968

MovieHistoryDrama

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.

Suviyön salaisuus · 1945

Suviyön salaisuus

★ 4.01945

MovieDrama

The old man at the Eirtola house warns the new maid Eriikka about the fate of Jenny, the summer girl. Jouko, a university student from Eirtola, arrives home for the summer and begins to court the pretty maid. At the cattle shed, Eriikka finds a box, the contents of which she examines together with Pastor Tuomo Ahomaa. The tragic fate of Jenny, the summer girl, is revealed.

Director of Photography

Vääpelin kauhu · 1957

Vääpelin kauhu

★ 4.61957

MovieComedy

A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.

Director of Photography

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.

Director of Photography

Hopeaa rajan takaa · 1963

Hopeaa rajan takaa

★ 6.01963

MovieAdventureWar

In the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist and Anttala decide to seek family silver hidden under Wist's home behind the border line of the truce.

Director of Photography

Olemme kaikki syyllisiä · 1954

Olemme kaikki syyllisiä

★ 8.31954

MovieDramaCrime

A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He starts to date a girl with fateful consequences.

Director of Photography

An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy...

Still Photographer

Pertti works as telegraph operator on a ship. The ship arrives in Helsinki and Pertti looks forward to meet his mother and the neighbor girl, who he is in love. But his plans change, when he steps into a restaurant with the first officer of the ship on the first ashore.

Director of Photography

Soita minulle, Helena! · 1948

Soita minulle, Helena!

★ 6.01948

MovieDrama

Helena, a beautiful school teacher in a countryside hamlet is just going to marry her childhood friend Erkki, but a day before the wedding her first love Jari arrives to the scene.

Director of Photography

Pää pystyyn Helena · 1957

Pää pystyyn Helena

★ 7.01957

MovieDrama

Grandmother Helena Junkkeri is working on a farm that her widowed son Arttu is unable to take on. Taina Raitalo who arrives at the house as a childminder makes the grieving man smile again, and Artu's little sister Päivi in turn delights the entire Junkkeri family with her achievements.

Screenplay

Sankari kuin sankari · 1948

Sankari kuin sankari

★ 10.01948

MovieComedyMusic

Bakery entrepreneur August Kassinen is worried about his musician son, who is going on a tour with his singer girlfriend. Kassinen's business affairs do not go smoothly, and through misunderstandings related to black market transactions, he gets into trouble with the police.

Director of Photography

Se alkoi omenasta · 1962

Se alkoi omenasta

★ 3.01962

MovieRomance

Autobiographical vanity showcase commissioned by Tabe Slioor, a self-made socialite and notorious symbol of loosening morals in early 1960s Finland. The film exploits the scandal she caused as the secret mistress of the mayor of Helsinki. Left unfinished because of her quarrels with the production company, the story relies heavily on her shamelessly narcissistic narration.

Director of Photography