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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen

Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen · 1959

Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen

MovieDramaComedy

Olli Suominen has been appointed acting sheriff in the countryside, and the whole family has left for Kesäranta to spend the summer. The peaceful rural life is interrupted when small farmer Pullin's hay barn is destroyed in a fire and Anita and Aarne, the Lokka family who have moved in next door, get to know the Suominen family.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen

Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen · 1959

Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen

MovieDramaComedy

Olli Suominen has been appointed acting sheriff in the countryside, and the whole family has left for Kesäranta to spend the summer. The peaceful rural life is interrupted when small farmer Pullin's hay barn is destroyed in a fire and Anita and Aarne, the Lokka family who have moved in next door, get to know the Suominen family.

Kivi

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

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

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

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

Professori Masa

Professori Masa · 1949

Professori Masa

MovieComedyRomance

A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.

Nordgren

Pontevat pommaripojat

Pontevat pommaripojat · 1948

Pontevat pommaripojat

MovieComedyCrime

Poke and Pena, two private investigators in debt, see an advertisement in the newspaper about Dr. Peltonen's disappearance and the promised reward for finding him. The boys retreat to investigate the case in a house they have rented in the countryside, which happens to be next door to the criminal gang that kidnapped the doctor. The gang's boss, 'Synkkä' (Gloomy), and his sister, 'Kaunotar' (Beauty), try to distract the boys by hiring them to guard their villa.

Ratas

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

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

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

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

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

Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu

Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu · 1940

Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu

MovieDramaHistory

A poet finds a new muse in young woman.

Robert Bastman (uncredited)

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.

Aarne Lehti

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.

Esko

Tanssi yli hautojen

Tanssi yli hautojen · 1950

Tanssi yli hautojen

MovieDramaHistory

In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.

Araktschejew

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.

Lauri

Miljoonavaillinki

Miljoonavaillinki · 1961

Miljoonavaillinki

A manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. An office manager promises to take the blame if the manager promises to behave better.

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