Asmo Hurula
Also Known As: Appo Hurula
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1952
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Male
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Pimeys odottaa
Overview: Matti Mäki is a young man who gets involved with a corrupt police man seeking proof that his wife, a night club singer, is cheating on him in this film noir style thriller.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-03-08
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Jackpot 2
Overview: Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-03-05
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The Worthless
Overview: Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-10-21
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Rakkauselokuva
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-11-16
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Crime and Punishment
Overview: In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who accidentally arrived at the crime scene wants to follow him, but guilt and the tightening net of the police throw a shadow over their desperate love affair.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-12-02
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Calamari Union
Overview: A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles including stray dogs and defunct streetlights.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Dirty Hands
Overview: A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1989-10-05
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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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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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The Saimaa Gesture
Overview: A documentary film about a tour of three Finnish rock bands around Saimaa lake system in a steam boat in 1981. The bands (Juice Leskinen Slam, Eppu Normaali and Hassisen Kone) are shown playing songs in their gigs and, in between, the members give intimate interviews or just act plain silly and have a good time.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1981-09-11
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