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Rakas… (1961)
Character: Saku
Tells the story of a young couple using flashbacks.
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Hallin Janne (1950)
Character: Hallin Janne
In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.
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Varjostettua valoa (1962)
Character: Dr. Petteri Holma
Surgeon Niilo Leino finds out that his former fellow student suffering from fears and insecurity is hired as his colleague. Leino tries to give him opportunities to show his ability but it occurs he hasn't escaped from his fears.
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Häpy endkö? Eli kuinka Uuno Turhapuro sai niin kauniin ja rikkaan vaimon (1977)
Character: Kalevi
Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law.
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Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä (1984)
Character: N/A
Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.
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Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit (1979)
Character: hovimestari/komisario
Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his finger. He is then cloned into a test-tube adult named Richard Ilyevitch Jyrä by his creator Dr. Jyrä.
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Noin 7 veljestä (1968)
Character: Rautahanska
The greedy lord of the manor, von Wurstburg, lives lavishly on his estate, heavily taxing the local peasants, when the official heir to the estate, the noble Sir William, arrives. At the same time, the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood, who helps the poor, sets up camp in the nearby woods. When the estate threatens to fall into Sir William's hands and the peasants rise up against von Wurstburg's excesses in Robin Hood's footsteps, the lord finds himself in a double bind.
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Pölhölä (1981)
Character: Kauppias
Masochists are in for a treat when Spede Productions' most vulgar folk farce hits the screen. Created by no fewer than three first-time directors, the film tells the story of the village of Pölhölä, "where people are even more foolish than in Hölmölä."
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Paratiisin lapset (1994)
Character: Eino Raviola
Eeva, the strong-willed and ambitious businesswoman, dreams to build a spa called Paradiso Baltica.
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Herra sotaministeri (1957)
Character: Yhdysvaltain sotilasasiamies (uncredited)
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.
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Vatsa sisään, rinta ulos! (1959)
Character: Tauno Routa
Captain Routa has to teach a civil defense class to the girls at a boarding school. He accidentally wanders into the shower room and tries to get out disguised as a cleaner, but ends up in the same bed as gymnastics teacher Marjatta. Private Pöntinen, who is dating the boarding school cook, has a blast when he gets his hands on Captain Routa's uniform.
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Johan nyt on markkinat! (1966)
Character: Kustaa Korpinen
The life of First Lieutenant Heikki Lilja, who is dating Colonel Taipale's daughter Tiina, is turned upside down when his company is ordered to search for the dangerous escaped convict Kahle-Kustaa. Things are complicated by Lilja's friend, the artist Paaso, and Paaso's admirer Merja Metsä, Lilja's strict superior Colonel Taipale, and Police Chief Mäkinen.
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Virtaset ja Lahtiset (1959)
Character: Veka
Two upstart families compete while trying to overcome the generation cap with their children.
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Koomikko (1983)
Character: Birger
Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying to capture and sell their art on videotape. Hepi charms a girl working in the Zoological Museum with his imitations of bird sounds. Alienated look at the frustrations of show business, as presented by a cast of popular Finnish TV comedians with their absurd dialogue and eccentric inside jokes.
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Aika hyvä ihmiseksi (1977)
Character: Captain
The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.
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Tukkijoella (1951)
Character: Heikki Huotari
A 3rd remake of the film based on the play by Teuvo Pakkala. Tells the story of the lumberjack group and how the lives of villagers and lumberjacks intertwine. Many loving couples are formed between jacks and village girls. At the same time, the farm of Pietola and the house matron, Katri is coveted by malicious Rättäri. He owns the IOU papers for Pietola and tries to get Katri using the IOU as blackmail.
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Pikku Ilona ja hänen karitsansa (1957)
Character: (uncredited)
Ilona, an orphan from the cruel Paksula family, ends up in Helsinki at a children's home for immigrants and from there becomes a foster daughter in the Orpana family, where she begins to sort out the relationship between her war-disabled stepbrother Pentti and his girlfriend Irene.
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Pikku suorasuu (1962)
Character: Gustaf Stjernfelt
Iris Klewe is brought from her forest cottage by her bank-manager uncle Kaarlo Heinonen to attend school in Helsinki, where his wife and elder children resent the poor foster girl while only the youngest child and the cook show her kindness. Kaarlo’s financial troubles start to threaten Iris’s inheritance.
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Oppenheimerin tapaus (1967)
Character: Salaisen palvelun upseeri Boris T. Pash - Todistaja
A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer.
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Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen (1959)
Character: Matti Kaarna
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.
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Paksunahka (1958)
Character: Konna
A man dreaming of becoming a private detective gets suck into an investigation of a crime involving the theft of a secret chemical formula.
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Täällä Pohjantähden alla (1968)
Character: Vihtori Kivioja
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.
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Äl' yli päästä perhanaa (1968)
Character: N/A
In the farce, the producer has invited people to his place to plan a film celebrating the centenary of independence. They get drunk and come up with three possible films, which they also act in themselves. The topics chosen, in the spirit of Finnish nationalism, are the life of Colonel Sandels, moonshining, and the 1974 presidential election.
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Älä nuolase… (1962)
Character: Bill Patton
Poor service station workers Jaakko and Timo think they have won the lottery jackpot. The men are already making big plans when it turns out that the prize is actually worthless. Posing as American oil millionaires, the men get caught up in a web of deception.
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Autotytöt (1960)
Character: pakukuski
Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.
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Pieni luutatyttö (1958)
Character: N/A
A stepfather forces Liisa, an orphan girl, to leave her small town and go to Helsinki alone to sell brooms. With the help of a friendly vagrant named Maailman-Petteri and a homeless dog named Musti, Liisa prevents a burglary, and a kind police officer named Rinne and his wife help all the homeless people start a new life.
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Viimeinen savotta (1977)
Character: Koppiaismäki
Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol.
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Natalia (1979)
Character: Häivä
Sammeli from Näljängä and Einari from Haataja, who were hunting bears, encounter Natalia, a cow that has crossed the eastern border. In the name of friendship between neighboring countries, Natalia is asked to return to the Soviet Union.
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Vääpelin kauhu (1957)
Character: Olavi Kautonen
A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.
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Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (1986)
Character: Kansakoulunopettaja
Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a new road. Tuura however is set on preventing this.
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Olin nahjuksen vaimo (1961)
Character: Hugo Ström
While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone towards Mr. Kaski and his abilities as a man.
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Noita palaa elämään (1952)
Character: Kauko
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...
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Miljoonavaillinki (1961)
Character: Jakob 'Jaska' Ryhtilä
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.
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1918 (1957)
Character: Hastig
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.
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Villin Pohjolan kulta (1963)
Character: Tommi Vorna
A western set in the "Wild North". The Vornan brothers Joel, Tommi, and Kai are framed for the robbery of a gold-laden carriage and the murder of its drivers. Behind the accusations are Kristo, the saloon owner, and Markus, the bank manager, who wants to marry Karin, the daughter of Jäära, the richest man in the north.
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Murheenkryynin poika (1958)
Character: Rantala
Heikki Aaltonen enlists in military service, leaving behind his father Hemminki, mother Mimmi, and beloved Helvi on the family farm. At the same time, another Heikki Aaltonen enlists, who is completely different in character from the future small farmer Aaltonen. The constant confusion between the men's names, the overprotective attitude of their parents, and Helvi's admission to a domestic science school near the regiment are all factors that tend to disrupt Heikki's military service.
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Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life (2004)
Character: N/A
Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
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Poliisin poika (1998)
Character: Vanha Ollikainen
The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are joined by Trampas's pregnant girlfriend and Jusse, a refugee from Rwanda, as a driver.
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Sillankorvan emäntä (1953)
Character: Jaakko Halla
The proud widow of Sillankorva falls in love with her young neighbor, Jaakko Hallan, whom she offers to take in as her son. However, much to the bitter disappointment of the mistress of the house, the man falls in love with her daughter Johanna.
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Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu (1962)
Character: Carl Gustaf Vadenblick
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.
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Kultainen vasikka (1961)
Character: Jaakko Honka
Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.
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Akseli ja Elina (1970)
Character: Vihtori 'Vikki' Kivioja
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
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Nummisuutarit (1957)
Character: Mikko
Esko is going to a neighboring village to marry Kreeta after her father arranged the marriage with Esko's father. Esko takes Mikko as his travel companion and that's where Esko's ordeals begin.
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Turkasen tenava! (1963)
Character: Valpas
Architect Matti picks up Ritva and her young son while on a business trip. When the car runs out of gas, the travelers are forced to spend the night at a guesthouse, pretending to be a married couple. During the night, Ritva runs away, leaving the child in Matti's care. Matti tries to cope with looking after the child and keeps it a secret from his wife Maija.
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Tup akka lakko (1980)
Character: poliisipäällikkö
'Tup-Akka-Lakko' is a sequel to 'Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit' in which doctor Jyrä invented a test-tube-adult who looked exactly like Mutikainen, a mathematician. When the test-tube-adult's body emerged, his voice moved into Mutikainen's body because of the doctor's error. Problems ensue.
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