Acting

Unto Salminen

Born March 23, 1910

Died August 16, 1972 · aged 62

Unto Emil Kalervo Salminen (March 23, 1910 Helsinki - August 16, 1972 Helsinki) was a Finnish actor. The family of Unto Salminen is an actress. Salminen was married to actor Kyllikki Väre, who died in 1951. Salminen is known for his role as Eskimo in Nummisuutari, among others. He starred in the Finnish National Theater in 1931–1951, and after that he played for example. In intimate theater and r…

Known For

Time of Roses

Time of Roses · 1969

MovieScience FictionDrama

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen · 1959

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen

MovieComedyThriller

Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.

Tuulinen päivä

Tuulinen päivä · 1962

Tuulinen päivä

The strange, disjointed love story in the existentialist film Windy Day transported the young lovers to an island off the town of Kotka.

Maailman kaunein tyttö

Maailman kaunein tyttö · 1953

Maailman kaunein tyttö

MovieComedyRomance

Unexpected romance is in the air when a young woman from Finnish boarding school meets an American millionaire.

Pimeänpirtin hävitys

Pimeänpirtin hävitys · 1947

Pimeänpirtin hävitys

MovieDramaHistory

Set in 19th century country side and a small town. Leni and later her daughter Hanni living in Pimeänpirtti croft are seduced by Otto von Holten, the Patron of Kankaanpää Estate.

Butterfly's Dream

Butterfly's Dream · 1986

Butterfly's Dream

A young woman finds a hidden bit of film about her mother's youth, a film which somehow seems linked to her own life.

Taistelu Heikkilän talosta

Taistelu Heikkilän talosta · 1936

Taistelu Heikkilän talosta

Anni, the daughter of the Heikkilä family, is forced by her father to give up her plans to marry her beloved farmhand, Matti Väliportti. Anni's life becomes a struggle when her father's choice of husband for her, Toivo Erkkilä, turns out to be a violent alcoholic.

Suomisen Ollin tempaus

Suomisen Ollin tempaus · 1942

Suomisen Ollin tempaus

MovieDramaComedy

Olli, a schoolboy from the Suominen family, accidentally causes two accidents, which he does not dare to confess to his father Väinö. He runs away from home in Helsinki and tries to get to the Savijärvi clearing camp with his friend Jaska. The journey, which began joyfully, turns into a nightmare when the boys, who have run into trouble, have to flee from the law and Olli's lively little sister Pipsa.

Movies

Time of Roses

Time of Roses · 1969

MovieScience FictionDrama

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen · 1959

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen

MovieComedyThriller

Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.

Tuulinen päivä

Tuulinen päivä · 1962

Tuulinen päivä

The strange, disjointed love story in the existentialist film Windy Day transported the young lovers to an island off the town of Kotka.

Maailman kaunein tyttö

Maailman kaunein tyttö · 1953

Maailman kaunein tyttö

MovieComedyRomance

Unexpected romance is in the air when a young woman from Finnish boarding school meets an American millionaire.

Pimeänpirtin hävitys

Pimeänpirtin hävitys · 1947

Pimeänpirtin hävitys

MovieDramaHistory

Set in 19th century country side and a small town. Leni and later her daughter Hanni living in Pimeänpirtti croft are seduced by Otto von Holten, the Patron of Kankaanpää Estate.

Butterfly's Dream

Butterfly's Dream · 1986

Butterfly's Dream

A young woman finds a hidden bit of film about her mother's youth, a film which somehow seems linked to her own life.

Taistelu Heikkilän talosta

Taistelu Heikkilän talosta · 1936

Taistelu Heikkilän talosta

Anni, the daughter of the Heikkilä family, is forced by her father to give up her plans to marry her beloved farmhand, Matti Väliportti. Anni's life becomes a struggle when her father's choice of husband for her, Toivo Erkkilä, turns out to be a violent alcoholic.

Suomisen Ollin tempaus

Suomisen Ollin tempaus · 1942

Suomisen Ollin tempaus

MovieDramaComedy

Olli, a schoolboy from the Suominen family, accidentally causes two accidents, which he does not dare to confess to his father Väinö. He runs away from home in Helsinki and tries to get to the Savijärvi clearing camp with his friend Jaska. The journey, which began joyfully, turns into a nightmare when the boys, who have run into trouble, have to flee from the law and Olli's lively little sister Pipsa.

Lapatossu ja Vinski olympia-kuumeessa

Lapatossu ja Vinski olympia-kuumeessa · 1939

Lapatossu ja Vinski olympia-kuumeessa

Inspired by Olympic fever, the Karamellitehdas candy factory challenges Saron Suklaa to a wooden spoon competition. Factory owner Aukusti mistakenly believes that Lapatossu and Vinski are athletes and hires them for his company's team. The resourceful rogues help the Saron family in every way they can.

Katupeilin takana

Katupeilin takana · 1949

Katupeilin takana

MovieComedyRomance

1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu Jalle-sedä. In Helsinki, the young people continue their courtship under the supervision of Vapu's aunt, Moster Mella. However, Vapu's father, business advisor Ossian Biörcke, is not as accepting when his daughter's actions begin to be revealed.

Olenko minä tullut haaremiin

Olenko minä tullut haaremiin · 1938

Olenko minä tullut haaremiin

MovieComedyRomance

In this comedy set in an urban environment, a bachelor household unaccustomed to housework seeks a maid. Unbeknownst to each other, engineer Arvi hires Helvi, a music student, and Martti, a master's degree holder, hires Aili, also a master's degree holder. When journalist Salomon hires Manta as a maid, chaos ensues.

Kiusaus

Kiusaus · 1938

A young pastor feels attracted to Martin, a fisherman, and his fiancée Raili. Martin, in turn, is in love with Paula, a shop assistant at a beach store. Jealousy and guilt drive these men, entangled in their relationships, to extreme actions.

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.

Kuriton sukupolvi

Kuriton sukupolvi · 1937

Kuriton sukupolvi

Immersed in his research work, professor Reinhold Varavaara realizes that he has neglected his children's upbringing. He falls in love with his son Pelle's girlfriend Marja and becomes a laughing stock in the eyes of his family. The offended father sets out to discipline his ill-behaved children.

Radio tulee hulluksi

Radio tulee hulluksi · 1952

Radio tulee hulluksi

Radio reporter Toivo Teräsvuori gets an idea for an experimental report using a hidden microphone, but he is reported as a madman talking to himself and is taken to the Houruniemi mental hospital. At the hospital, the volatile Toivo is considered insane, and even his wife Eila's testimony does not help the matter. Instead, Professor Piukka orders Toivo to undergo brain surgery.

Seitsemän veljestä

Seitsemän veljestä · 1939

Seitsemän veljestä

MovieDramaHistory

Based on a novel by Aleksis Kivi. Follows the story of seven brothers of Jukola in 19th century Finland.

"Minä elän"

"Minä elän" · 1946

MovieDramaHistory

The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.

Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu

Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu · 1940

Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu

MovieDramaHistory

A poet finds a new muse in young woman.

Silmät hämärässä

Silmät hämärässä · 1952

Silmät hämärässä

MovieThrillerCrime

A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.

The Scarlet Dove

The Scarlet Dove · 1961

The Scarlet Dove

MovieDramaThriller

Dr. Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa follows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect.

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.

Nummisuutarit

Nummisuutarit · 1938

MovieComedyHistory

In the comedy set in Etelä-Hämee in the middle of the 19th century, Esko, the son of a cobbler, goes with the speaker Mikko Vilkastu to find a bride for himself from Karri's adopted daughter, Crete. However, not everything goes according to plan.

Katarina kaunis leski

Katarina kaunis leski · 1950

Katarina kaunis leski

MovieComedyRomance

1790 Turku. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus Schildt.

Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina

Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina · 1941

Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina

MovieDramaRomance

At the eve of Crimean war orphaned Regina lives with her grandmother in a small cabin near a lavish villa. As the summer approaches there is great anticipation of a big ball to be held.