Lilga Kovanko
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Biography: Lilla Kovanko, born Olga Lilga Losinskij-Kovanko, is a Finnish stage and screen actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: December 12, 1943
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Female
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Family Stories Untold
Overview: Family Stories Untold is an animated documentary, in which seven different women’s stories about family are woven into one life-long piece. It begins with Iida, 9, who after her parents’ nasty divorce helps Mummy find a new man on Tinder, and ends with Lisbeth, who has been forced into a retirement home by her children. It’s a story about a life in which we don’t have the courage to voice our opinions, desires and expectations.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2023-02-02
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Where Once We Walked
Overview: The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2011-10-28
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The Great Journey
Overview: Short film based on Tove Jansson's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-01-10
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Aloittelija keisarillisessa Aleksanterin yliopistossa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1966-09-30
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Playing Solo
Overview: Emma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think they're a perfect match. Emma discovers she is pregnant and ends up taking care of Joel's mother while he goes off on tour to conduct around the world. Pregnancy, a crazy mother-in-law, trust, and loyalty test the couple to make the right decisions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-12-28
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Valkoinen kääpiö
Overview: The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-02-14
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Near and Far Away
Overview: Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-11-08
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Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-09-12
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Nattseilere
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1986-11-13
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A Matter of Life and Death
Overview: "Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to Japan, declines the offer. Instead, she visits a maternity hospital in Sweden. She meets a doctor, who she has been in love for 15 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-11-20
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For the Living and the Dead
Overview: An ordinary suburban family is shattered when their youngest son is killed in an accidental fire while locked inside the family's car on their yard. Mother Marja can't stop crying, father Jaakko can't cry at all but blames himself for the fire. Their remaining son Timo develops problems at school because of his constant worries about his parents' safety. In their grief, Marja and her sister Leena have to confront an old family secret, their little sister's accidental death for which Leena has quietly blamed herself through decades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-02-18
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Dirty Story
Overview: The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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Frihetens murar
Overview: An Argentine actor comes to Sweden. He has pictured Sweden as a paradise. From his small rented room, he tries in vain to make contact with the Swedes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Aika hyvä ihmiseksi
Overview: The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1977-10-07
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Bensaa suonissa
Overview: Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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Hella W
Overview: The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-01-28
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Aurinkotuuli
Overview: Gravity researcher Erik Rankamaa dies in his prime in 1970. He is been deep frozen and gets defrosted in 1999, while people of his time are still alive.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Aidankaatajat
Overview: Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-08-20
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Landet som icke är
Overview: A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a large weight from their shoulders.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-12-27
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Two Farewells
Overview: Two Farewells deals with Alzheimer's disease with a respectful sense of humor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2020-12-21
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Kites Over Helsinki
Overview: Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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Little Sister
Overview: Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryman bound to be released from service. In the same time, she dates old school friend Eero who even goes AWOL to be near her. As the war continues, Katri has to make difficult decisions about her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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