Jaakko Talaskivi
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 24, 1945
Deathday: March 08, 1998
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Night on Earth
1991-12-12
Night on Earth
Overview: An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-12
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Portraits of Women
1970-02-06
Portraits of Women
Overview: Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-02-06
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Nuoruus vauhdissa
1961-02-17
Nuoruus vauhdissa
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-02-17
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Iron Horsemen
1995-01-27
Iron Horsemen
Overview: Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.
Genres: Action Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-27
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Hamlet Goes Business
1987-08-21
Hamlet Goes Business
Overview: When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-08-21
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Shadows in Paradise
1986-10-17
Shadows in Paradise
Overview: Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-10-17
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Ariel
1988-10-21
Ariel
Overview: A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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When the Heavens Fall…
1972-02-27
When the Heavens Fall…
Overview: A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1972-02-27
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Herra Huu – jestapa jepulis penikat sipuliks
1973-12-21
Herra Huu – jestapa jepulis penikat sipuliks
Overview: Lonely ghost Mister Who goes around scaring orphan kids in this Finnish children's musical.
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1973-12-21
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Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
1990-12-21
Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Overview: That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Hirttämättömät
1971-08-27
Hirttämättömät
Overview: Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the reward, through the desert without water and fighting against Indians. And just to find out that they have made a full circle back to origin.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1971-08-27
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Jussi Pussi
1970-04-17
Jussi Pussi
Overview: Jussi, a student admired by all women, is inadvertently selected to represent both left-wing and right-wing parties in the parliamentary elections. All Jussi cares about is the beautiful, blonde Irmeli.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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Macbeth
1987-01-16
Macbeth
Overview: A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-01-16
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Tilinteko
1987-02-13
Tilinteko
Overview: Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he refuses to reveal his accomplice's name. On his first leave on prison Nieminen finds Varjola in a small town, where he has became the mayor. Varjola, of course, is shocked to see his old friend again.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-02-13
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Viimeiset rotannahat
1985-01-18
Viimeiset rotannahat
Overview: Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially vulgar black humour.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-01-18
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Kesäkapina
1970-01-23
Kesäkapina
Overview: Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-01-23
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Juha
1999-02-26
Juha
Overview: A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Lampaansyöjät
1972-11-17
Lampaansyöjät
Overview: Valtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a campfire, they forge their car's number plates and other important documents just to be able to poach sheep grazing on the roadside without getting caught. Lots of man talk around the campfire, aided by lots of booze. The summer may be wet, but the vodka is definitely dry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1972-11-17
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Rocky VI
1986-06-14
Rocky VI
Overview: Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren. In this 1986 send-up, Rock'y, played by Silu Seppala, goes head to head with Soviet Igor (Sakari Kuosmanen) and loses.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-06-14
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