Pehr-Olof Sirén
Also Known As: Per Siren
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Porvoo, Finland
Birthday: January 10, 1923
Deathday: November 24, 1986
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Inför havets anlete
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-12-05
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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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Meren juhlat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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Yksityisalue
Overview: An apparent suicide of a successful architect prompts an investigation into his death. A young man investigating can't believe that his well-respected boss would take his own life until he discovers that the man had a loveless marriage, another woman on the side, and a general feeling of malaise – a condition caused by the fact that he very nearly sold himself out to the lure of big money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-10-05
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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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Onnellinen mies
Overview: Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge construction site, but he quickly finds himself clashing against the local decision-makers. The bridge engineer is also popular with the ladies and, being a man of energy, he manages to take care of several of his admirers at once.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1979-05-14
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Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Overview: Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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Opettajatar seikkailee
Overview: An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagrin. She is intent on keeping the painting out of circulation by stealing it from an art gallery, but the aftermath turns out to be more complex than she anticipated, leading Leena to become involved in various misunderstandings featuring a gang of criminals, inept cops and false murder charges among other things.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-10-28
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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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The Kremlin Letter
Overview: After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow, a former naval officer and his team go undercover to retrieve it. Their plans are disrupted when a cunning politician raids their hideout.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-01
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Oksat pois…
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-10-27
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Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
Overview: Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self wants her to marry another man than his sober personality wants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-12-21
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Kun lesket lempivät
Overview: Simo Kämäräinen, a widowed cottage owner, and his chairman leave with marriage intentions for Juva. A play based on Maiju Lassila's novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1974-01-09
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Mä oksalla ylimmällä
Overview: A fictional love story between famous composer Gabriel Linsén and opera singer Maria Sawina in 19th century Finland.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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Paksunahka
Overview: A man dreaming of becoming a private detective gets suck into an investigation of a crime involving the theft of a secret chemical formula.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-04-04
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Commando Assault
Overview: Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.
Genres: War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-02-21
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Martinin rikos
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1980-12-05
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Butterfly's Dream
Overview: A young woman finds a hidden bit of film about her mother's youth, a film which somehow seems linked to her own life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-01-10
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Gas, Inspector Palmu!
Overview: A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so Palmu, Kokki and Virta begin the investigation: who had come to the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap while Mrs. Skrof was asleep?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-09-15
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Kahdeksas veljes
Overview: Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1971-02-26
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Rottasota
Overview: A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling establishment is also taken under the inspection. The daughter of the prime minister and her relation to the son of another minister of opposing party is especially under surveillance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-03-31
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Miljoonaliiga
Overview: Reiska who has moved to Helsinki from the country starts working as an errand boy in Sweden and Denmark for Lehto, a leader of a criminal league. Reiska's friend from school, Lea, who dreams of being a singer, drifts under Lehto's influence as well.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-11-15
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Patarouva
Overview: Kaius Kannisto a bachelor who has experienced hard on the love front, goes through his relationships with his four former female friends, the four queens of the deck of cards.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-09-25
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Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro
Overview: Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1975-08-29
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Kielletty kirja
Overview: An author writes a historical novel about witch persecution and is accused of blasphemy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1965-08-20
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