Heikki Savolainen
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Heikki Savolainen (9 April 1922 in Pori – 22 January 1975) was a Finnish stage and screen actor renowned for the part of Urho Hietanen in Edvin Laine's 1955 The Unknown Soldier (The Unknown Soldier). He also played several comedic roles in 50's Finnish movies, as well as performing in several radio plays.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pori, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: April 09, 1922
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 22, 1975
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Amor hoi!
Overview: Master Tuula Vihervo teaches languages at a women's college, where American-Finnish Charles Thompson Jr arrives to do an inspection on behalf of his father's college donor. The arrival of a guest and Tuula's infatuation causes a stir inside the college and in a restaurant in Helsinki, where Tuula starts performing as the singer Irina Meller.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-03-17
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Maailman kaunein tyttö
Overview: Unexpected romance is in the air when a young woman from Finnish boarding school meets an American millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-01-23
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Silmät hämärässä
Overview: A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Minäkö isä!
Overview: A traditional misunderstanding story with an unfounded suspicion of jealousy at the beginning. Childhood friends Kati Jorma and Jalmari Karvi do not reveal their previous meetings to their suspicious spouses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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Katupeilin takana
Overview: 1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu Jalle-sedä. In Helsinki, the young people continue their courtship under the supervision of Vapu's aunt, Moster Mella. However, Vapu's father, business advisor Ossian Biörcke, is not as accepting when his daughter's actions begin to be revealed.
Genres: Comedy Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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Kesäillan valssi
Overview: A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family Annina. Annina’s family doesn’t approve of the relationship, and the couple’s happiness is also threatened by Lauri’s worsening eye disease.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-10-05
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…ja Helena soittaa
Overview: Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the Helena series. When the Winter War breaks out, Arttu (Jussi Jurkka), the son of Helena (Irma Seikkula) and Jari Junkkeri (Erkki Viljos), go to the front. Arttu proposes to his girlfriend Elina (Leena Häkinen), but the world events come in between. When he is not heard of at the end of the war, the relatives begin to believe that Arttu is dead - everybody else but not Helena.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-12-30
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Kovanaama
Overview: Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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Sadan miekan mies
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Genres: Comedy Adventure History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-08-31
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Kaikkien naisten monni
Overview: The military farce, directed by Lasse Pöysti, is based on Joel Laikka's novel. The illiterate Nieminen, who starts his military service through mischief and being tempted by other rookies, causes confusion in the barracks. At the behest of colonel, attempts are made to teach him in different ways - the women of the locality are also interested in teaching. Soon Nieminen will be the competing with sergeant major Vasikainen for the affections of the colonel's cook Vieno.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-07-04
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Oi, muistatkos…
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-10-29
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Rakastin sinua, Hilde
Overview: Two guys love the some girl who just plays with their feelings. Situation damages the friendship of these men and they are tormented as the girl doesn't love back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-11-19
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Pikku Pietarin piha
Overview: A little orphan boy is the focus of attention, as well as his stepmother whose special qualities engender a certain mystery around her person – and hint at magical powers.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-11-30
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The Unknown Soldier
Overview: It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Rakas varkaani
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-06-28
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Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-05-16
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Kipparikvartetti
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-09-05
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Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä
Overview: Trade counselor Lillukka leaves his entire fortune to Pekka Puupää, who, thanks to cartoons and films, has become closer to him than his immediate family, who are pursuing their own interests. Pekka starts running a toy factory and hires a freckle-faced bowling boy as the company's errand boy. Widowed trade counselor Gunilla Lillukka tries to get married to Pätkä, who has been promoted to assistant director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-08-29
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Äidittömät
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-01-10
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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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Yks' tavallinen Virtanen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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Rion yö
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-08-03
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Pontevat pommaripojat
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-12-23
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Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen
Overview: Schoolboy Klaus is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and difficulties he keeps up his studies under the supervision of the grim Master Kahari.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-05-22
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Hei, rillumarei!
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-02-19
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Kunnioittaen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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Minä soitan sinulle illalla
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-05-26
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Onni etsii asuntoa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-01-21
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Kolmiapila
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-03-29
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Radio tekee murron
Overview: Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book their heist to coincide. Teräsvuori gets caught but escapes from police custody to start his private investigations together with female radio colleague Eila.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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Jees, olympialaiset, sanoi Ryhmy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-29
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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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Hornankoski
Overview: The brothers of Yli-Koskela farm fall for the same woman. Then Aarne believes he has killed a man. Artturi sees the case and saves the man from drowning to the rapids. He takes advantage of the situation and tells the woman, Lea, that his brother is a murderer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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Saatanan radikaalit
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1971-02-21
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Yhden yön hinta
Overview: The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
Overview: Justiina pushes Pekka and Pätkä to take painting lessons after realizing that art can be a way to earn a living. With the help of the yard children, a painting is created that wins first prize at a contemporary art exhibition. In the meantime, the men, along with their assistant Miss Kaihokielo, have been charged with art theft. After the misunderstanding is cleared up, the Puupääs use the art prize money to convert the house's bomb shelter into a children's clubroom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-09-18
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Niskavuoren naiset
Overview: A story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-09-19
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The Harvest Month
Overview: The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a novel by Nobel prize winning finnish author F.E. Sillanpää. Simply put, the story concerns the decline and fall of a once-proud family, thanks to the alcoholism of its paterfamilias. Toivo Makela delivers a powerfully effective performance as the inebriated protagonist, avoiding the usual "drunken" cliches. The overlong running time, coupled with the downbeat nature of the subject, limited the film's worldwide appeal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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Iloinen Linnanmäki
Overview: Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-11-04
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Veteraanin voitto
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-03-18
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Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä
Overview: Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. As a result they meet an orphan boy named Otto while working as a park nannies. They offer to shelter the boy, but at the same time the father Antti, who has returned from the sea, is looking for his son together with Miss Raikas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-03-04
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Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
Overview: Pekka Puupää and Pätkä involuntarily end up in Suez as peacekeepers. After saving the Caliph's daughter Suleiman from kidnappers on two occasions, the Caliph magically reunites the friends with Justiina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-04-25
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Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa
Overview: An ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be his stand-in to escape the ring of spies threatening his life. Many beautiful women cross Kivi's path before the spy ring is eventually crushed.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-02-27
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Lakeuksien lukko
Overview: Set in rural Ostrobothnia in 1859, Tuomas Kantola, a farmer, is the only peasant in the village who does not sell his land to Lohikoski's boss Adler, and even starts to annoy him by building a dam to defy the project to drain Lohikoski's lands. During the summer, Harri , a student, and Kantola's daughter Annika fall in love, which is not accepted by either of their fathers or Annika's ex-fiancé Tuomas.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-01-26
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Radio tulee hulluksi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Alaston malli karkuteillä
Overview: A comedy about a poor artist who is accidentally accused of the murder of his fiancee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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Kanavan laidalla
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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The Doll Merchant
Overview: A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-08-12
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Taas tyttö kadoksissa!
Overview: Police chief Olavi, health nurse Liisa Niemi and photo reporter Takola are investigating the disappearance of a local girl.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-05-03
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Leena
Overview: Unemployed girl shoplifts in department store. Son of a wealthy family notice the shoplifting but won't turn her in. After awhile they are seen together and press thinks they are engaged.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-12-31
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Miljonäärimonni
Overview: A farce about a wealthy young man who attempts to keep up his lifestyle even in the army.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-07-03
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Tirlittan
Overview: Young Tirlittan gets rid of her family after being struck by lightning in her home. While looking for a new home, she meets a friendly policeman, a woman with goat, and a ringmaster with whom Tirlittan ends up performing in a circus.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-11-21
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Vääpelin kauhu
Overview: A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-07-19
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Hunting for Miss Europe
Overview: Miss Europe Hunting (1955) is a romantic comedy directed by Erik Blomberg and co-written with Lars-Eric Malmlund, which utilizes material recorded during the Miss Europe competitions held in Finland. The story follows the career and relationship development of bird photographer Antero Lintunen (Lasse Pöysti) and American journalist Evelyn McNutty (Lippe Hokkanen). In the path signified by coincidences and misunderstandings, they also find each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-07-29
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