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…

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Suomisen perhe

Suomisen perhe · 1941

MovieDramaComedy

The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family.

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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.

Matias Turunen, Saaran entinen aviomies

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.

Pentti Varavaara

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.

Toll

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.

(uncredited)

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.

Pedro

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.

Old man

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.

Dr. Einar Heckler

Suomisen perhe

Suomisen perhe · 1941

MovieDramaComedy

The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family.

Lasse Lehtovaara

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.

Vapun isä

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.

Lasse Lehtovaara

Pikajuna pohjoiseen

Pikajuna pohjoiseen · 1947

Pikajuna pohjoiseen

MovieCrimeDrama

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

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.

Hakala

"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.

Kullervo (uncredited)

Suopursu kukkii

Suopursu kukkii · 1947

Suopursu kukkii

MovieDramaRomance

A mysterious traveler encounters Dr. Mirjami and Inga on the road. They lure the young man to a boarding house, where their husbands already live, along with the poet Annikki, the boarding house landlady Mrs. Soisalo, and her lover Einar. All four women feel attracted to the traveler, who begins to receive anonymous love letters.

Einar Kinos

Nainen on valttia

Nainen on valttia · 1944

Nainen on valttia

MovieComedyMusic

A famous operette star Kirsti Kalpa escapes her busy and selfish fiance and hides as maid to house of 3 bachelors ( professor, composer and butler) , who basically hate women.

Rantamaa

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.

Jaakko

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.

soldier

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.

Martti Paavola

Uuteen elämään

Uuteen elämään · 1942

Uuteen elämään

Small-time criminal Niilo gets the chance of a lifetime when the wealthy Sahlbergs mistake him for their long-lost nephew. Taking on the role of Yrjö Sahlberg, Niilo becomes the manager of a safe factory, where his old partner in crime, Oksa, begins to blackmail him into shady dealings. After falling in love with his "cousin" Annikki, Niilo wants to face his past and start a new life as an honest man.

Niilo Nurmi

Ne 45000

Ne 45000 · 1933

Medical student Antti Ahonen, who is fighting tuberculosis, finds himself in the middle of a love triangle with his friend Heikki Huhtamäki and his crush Helmi Hirvinen.

Suomisen taiteilijat

Suomisen taiteilijat · 1943

Suomisen taiteilijat

MovieDramaComedy

Pipsa catches the theater bug. The schoolgirl becomes obsessed with acting, which causes suffering for the whole family. Pipsa's brother Olli arranges performances for his sister and collects money for a poor war widow.

Lasse Lehtovaara

Tuomari Martta

Tuomari Martta · 1943

Martha's problem is balancing work and family. According to her husband Juho and father-in-law Kalle, the mother's place is at home with the child and not at work. Only her mother-in-law Ilona encourages Martta to advance in her career.

Juho Karsta

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.

Dr. Kirves

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 Writer