Hannele Lauri
Biography: Ritva Hannele Lauri (born July 21, 1952 in Tampere, Finland) is a Finnish actress known for her roles in multiple comedy series. The artistic focus of her career is in stage acting. She was born Hannele Markkula to parents Arvi Markkula, a colonel and Eine Markkula, a shopkeeper. She married the actor Hannu Lauri in 1976 and had two sons, Sami (1977) and Tomi (1979). The couple divorced in 1994. She was briefly married to Teemu Rinne in the early 2000s. After having studied acting in the Theatre School, Hannele Lauri began her professional career in the Jyväskylä City Theatre. The period lasted from 1975 till 1977 after which she worked as a free-lancer till 1981. After a short period in theTurku City Theatre she started her ongoing contract with the Helsinki City Theatre in 1983. Her early stage roles include Ophelia. During the same period she was also cast in the movies directed by Risto Jarva and Jaakko Pakkasvirta. She got famous in Finland in the 1980s through her collaboration with mr Spede Pasanen. She appeared in popular television productions and comedy feature films created by mr Pasanen and the actor Vesa-Matti Loiri. She has been in the national limelight ever since. In the 1990s she starred in the television comedy series Hynttyyt yhteen ("Moving In Together") together with the comedian Eija Vilpas. In 2003 she portrayed the role of a woman going through her menopause in the comedy series Kuumia aaltoja ("Hot Waves"). In 2010s Hannele Lauri has made several supporting roles in Finnish movies and frequent television appearances along with her stage career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irina Björklund, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: July 21, 1952
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Known For
Trust
1976-08-20
Trust
Overview: Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and the Soviet Union. In December 1917, the Finnish delegation, composed of Chairman of the Senate Finance Department P.E. Svinhufvud (Vilho Siivola), Senator Carl Enckell (Yrjö Tähtelä) and State Secretary Gustaf Idman (Yrjö Paulo) arrive in St. Petersburg to meet V.I. Lenin (Kirill Lavrov) to gain recognition for the country's independence.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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The Unhanged
2023-05-24
The Unhanged
Overview: The Finland of the future has gone mad. A bored young woman, Viola, gets a brilliant idea. She decides to fool the infamous Lone Rider and his sidekick Tonto. Viola makes a wanted poster of herself, and assumes the identity of a highwayman named Gonzales. Viola/Gonzales surrenders to a quirky bandit duo, who now believe they will be well rewarded for bringing this outlaw to authorities. As the pair is taking Gonzales to the gallows, they get lost in the desert. A day's journey turns into an adventure that tests the trio's physical resilience and mental maturity.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-05-24
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Pikkupojat
1986-12-25
Pikkupojat
Overview: OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandbox as characters aged 4, 5 and 6. Pasanen even has his trademark beard, for Christ's sake!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-12-25
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Liian iso keikka
1986-11-14
Liian iso keikka
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-11-14
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Baby Love
1986-09-13
Baby Love
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Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-09-13
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21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage
2013-02-08
21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage
Overview: The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-02-08
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Suolaista ja makeaa
1995-03-17
Suolaista ja makeaa
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1995-03-17
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Palimpsest
2024-04-12
Palimpsest
Overview: Two elderly roommates at a hospice are randomly selected for a Gene-Therapy Trial that rejuvenates their bodies, making them younger. Given a second chance at love, lust and life, with the memories of their past life intact, they now must find their place in a new world that has left them behind.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-04-12
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Kaikki pelissä
1994-04-15
Kaikki pelissä
Overview: A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-04-15
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Ydinvoimaa Loviisasta
Ydinvoimaa Loviisasta
Overview: Documentary film by doctor Törhönen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
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Man and a Baby
2017-10-06
Man and a Baby
Overview: Antti Pasanen is working as a journalist. His life is on the right tracks; his wife Pia is just about to give birth. Until - in the front of the Maternity Hospital everything changes. Antti, with the sniffling baby in his arms, sees the taxi´s taillights fading out. Pia is sitting on the backseat; their future as a nuclear family is disappearing. The new life with the baby´s terms begins and Antti has no idea what that’s all about.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-10-06
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Marraskuun harmaa valo
1993-04-23
Marraskuun harmaa valo
Overview: Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1993-04-23
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Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
1990-08-24
Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
Overview: This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-08-24
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Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
1978-08-25
Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-08-25
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Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti
1992-08-14
Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn Finland into a kingdom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1992-08-14
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Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
1991-08-23
Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
Overview: Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies
1998-08-28
Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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Uuno Turhapuron veli
1994-08-26
Uuno Turhapuron veli
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-08-26
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The Storage 2
2018-02-16
The Storage 2
Overview: Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is fine when Rouskun's mate deals with things. The entrepreneurs know that the poor can be, but not artificial. But what's the point for the scratchy women? Especially when Rousku gets to look in the mirror again and find out what kind of father, such a daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-02-16
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The Storage
2011-12-30
The Storage
Overview: Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-12-30
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Hei kliffaa hei
1985-02-08
Hei kliffaa hei
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Naisen logiikka
1999-05-21
Naisen logiikka
Overview: A Finnish comedy seen by under 400 viewers upon original release. Never aired on TV or published on home media.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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Loma
1976-12-17
Loma
Overview: After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1976-12-17
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Puhallus
1992-05-07
Puhallus
Overview: The company's regional manager has had enough of the fast pace of business and the frivolous patterns. He leaves the office sauna for a booze run at the behest of his boss. Drunk and driving his own car, even he doesn't have to. The situation becomes a thrilling chase that ends in a breathalyzer test and all-round relief as things fall into place. The booze run becomes a turning point in the life of the group's regional manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1992-05-07
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Marked
1984-09-15
Marked
Overview: Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past. Irma attempts to commit suicide, and resurrects at the city morgue after being pronounced dead. After the incident, she wanders out direction-less, being pursued by the doctor who treated her and also a strange, tall man.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-09-15
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Ihmemies
1979-11-02
Ihmemies
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Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1979-11-02
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Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä
1984-08-31
Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti
1987-08-28
Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life
2004-09-10
Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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70 Is Just a Number
2021-12-29
70 Is Just a Number
Overview: Seija Kuula is a superstar singer and an ageless goddess with a career spanning decades and decades. Problems start to arise when Seija falls in love with a younger guy and everybody around her seem to suffer from a bad case of baby fever. Seija orchestrates a masterplan to make everyone happy only to realize that one can not play with love. 70 Is Just a Number is a warm and humorous coming-of-age story – at 70.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-12-29
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Frozen City
2006-11-17
Frozen City
Overview: Looking to outrun the horrors of his past, a tormented cabbie flees Helsinki for an apartment complex in the suburbs, only to discover that new neighbors bring new problems. What ensues is a raw, realistic tragedy with an unwaveringly humane core.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Koston enkeli
2024-12-25
Koston enkeli
Overview: Traumatized Niina needs a change of scenery and a moment of escape from the world. Together with her friend Suvi, they rent a villa in the countryside. Soon the women find they are not welcome, and it doesn't help that they find themselves in the middle of fateful twists and turns and unwittingly become involved in a mysterious ancient cult. One night, a ragtag group of ancient pagan worshiping locals invade the villa to demand reparations for the women's actions and to perform their rituals. Having survived the atrocities, Niina begins to gather her strength with only one goal in mind - revenge!
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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Vesku from Finland
2010-09-03
Vesku from Finland
Overview: "Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a significant career also as a singer, performer, writer and as a sportsman. He has recorded several albums, from folk songs and couplets to tangos. Some of his recordings are based on the lyrics of Hermann Hesse or Eino Leino, the infamous Finnish poet. During his unique career he has played in more than 60 films and recorded 30 albums.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-09-03
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