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Niskavuori (1984)
Character: Opettaja Vainio
Ilona, a young teacher, arrives in a village in Tavastia. She and Aarne, the wealthy owner of the Niskavuori farm, who is frustrated with his marriage, fall in love. The relationship becomes a public secret. Aarne's wife Martta, who owns half of Niskavuori, wants to hold on to her husband until the last. For Loviisa, the matriarch of Niskavuori, the most important thing is the reputation and honor of the family.
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Poika eli kesäänsä (1955)
Character: Herttua
Story of first love affair during summer school holidays, in a pastoral setting.
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Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin (1956)
Character: Matti Nurmi
A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles.
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Nuoruus vauhdissa (1961)
Character: N/A
Laila and Lasse are two teenagers dreaming about careers as singers. Lasse's brother Rami dreams about motorbike racing and dates a pretty blond Anjukka. Her father works in the hot new field of TV advertising, which might be a good route to stardom for Laila and Lasse. But then Anjukka sets her eyes on Lasse and Rami sets his on Laila, and many a popular hit melody is sung in between.
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Täällä Pohjantähden alla (1968)
Character: N/A
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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Tie pimeään (1962)
Character: Kauko
Klaus Grahn is a young student frustrated with his life. In an attempt to break free from his unfulfilling life he tries to commit the perfect crime and forges a large check. Quickly he runs out of money and the police identifies him as the criminal, and so he boards a train to Tampere where he robs a taxi and shoots the driver. He returns to Helsinki and manages to avoid the police, but his friends and family try to persuade him into giving himself up. Klaus is angered by this, and he flees, plagued by paranoid thoughts until he decides to confront his friends for the last time - this time with a gun.
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Vääpelin kauhu (1957)
Character: Lars Kukkola
A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.
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Vodkaa, komisario Palmu (1969)
Character: Cameraman
A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.
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Pedon merkki (1981)
Character: Sotilasvirkailija, tulkki
Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
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Meiltähän tämä käy (1973)
Character: henkilökunnan päällikkö
Logger Severi Suhonen is transferred from forestry work to indoor work at the company's paper mill. Unable to adapt to city life, Severi clashes with the autocratic manager Wille Wållberg and meets his girlfriend from decades ago, Anna Tuhkanen, whose daughter Leena Tuhkanen is dating the manager's son, Wille Wållberg Junior.
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Kultainen vasikka (1961)
Character: Russian Soldier (uncredited)
Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.
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