Leif Wager
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Leif Christian Wager was a versatile Finnish actor. Appearing in some 75 feature films and musicals.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Birthday: February 11, 1922
Deathday: March 23, 2002
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Haaviston Leeni
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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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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Kihlaus
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-09-15
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Mitäs me taiteilijat
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-03-28
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Tähtisumua
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-01-13
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Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi
Overview: Wager is Count Mauritz Armborg, the young master of the estate. Linnanheimo plays Katariina (Catherine) the nanny to Mauritz's nieces and nephews. The two fall in love and decide to escape to Italy via Denmark where they have planned to get married. There are always complications because Mauritz's grandmother doesn't want him to marry below him - she has decided that Mauritz is to marry the Swedish beauty, Ingeborg Liliecrona.
Genres: Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-01-31
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Läpi usvan
Overview: Pertti works as telegraph operator on a ship. The ship arrives in Helsinki and Pertti looks forward to meet his mother and the neighbor girl, who he is in love. But his plans change, when he steps into a restaurant with the first officer of the ship on the first ashore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-01-23
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Minne av två måndagar
Overview: Adaptation of Arthur Miller's "A Memory of Two Mondays".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-02
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Daniel Hjort
Overview: Based on Josef Julius Wecksell's play. The story is set during the era of political unrest in 1590s Sweden.Daniel Hjort, the grim and lonesome assistant to the powerful Fleming family, finds himself caught up between the two opposing parties when Turku Castle is close to coming under siege. In the midst of this he finds out the truth about the death of his father and sets out to get revenge.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-09-20
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Friends, Comrades
Overview: The boisterous good humor of Jurmala, the nickel-mine owner, is, if anything, only barely dented by the raging battles in Finland before, during and after World War Two. In fact, everywhere he goes, he meets prospective customers on all sides of the conflict with his all-inclusive greeting "Friends, Comrades." Indeed, the resource he is wrenching from the earth's bowels is necessary to all forms of industrial activity, and is especially necessary for military applications. Thus, he has no reason to fear that he will ever run out of customers. This doesn't prevent him from using every possible means to entice them. At home, his relationship with his wife is not so prosperous, and they resort to some extraordinary means to try and keep on an even keel.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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Poet and Muse
Overview: Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz and later muse, poetess L. Onerva. His friends include equally central figures of the Finnish cultural scene in the early 1900s, such as painters Halonen and Gallén-Kallela, and composer Sibelius.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-10-13
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Kolmiapila
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-03-29
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Synden Lockar
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-12-31
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A Barrel of Amontillado
Overview: Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends Fortunado and Montresor venture below the city with promises of the rare vintage wine Amontillado. Based on the short story by Edgar Allen Poe, Fortunado and Montresor find themselves in a web of betray and revenge, changing their friendship forever.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-06-11
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The City
Overview: A man has buried himself in women, in religious ecstasy , in vanity and in his belief in so-called artistic activity. His tension and frustration has only increased. And now he gives it all up. Awaits the bailiff. His personal bankruptcy is signed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-03-20
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Pikajuna pohjoiseen
Overview: The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North. One tragedy after the other appears.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-06-01
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Tåg norrut
Overview: The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-03-24
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The Enchanted Road
Overview: Writer and psychiatrist Oscar Parland (1912-1997) narrates this nostalgic story about his early childhood memories and fantasies. Five-year-old Riki spends the summer of 1917 at his cosmopolitan family's summer house by the Gulf of Finland. Surrounded by other children and eccentric adults who speak Swedish, German and Russian, Riki also encounters some fantastic animal characters no one else is able to see.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-12-29
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Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
Overview: Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends about Usko (Tommi Rinne) and Toivo (Leif Wager), both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-05-13
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Toivelauluja
Overview: A film centered around a popular Finnish song book
Genres: Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-03-23
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Päämaja
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-11-06
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Puck
Overview: Liisa and the renowned composer Raimo Kaarna are fond of each other, but in Kaarna's family history, everyone does not accept the relationship. In addition, Liisa has her own doubts, and a secret that does not endure the daylight.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-11-01
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Nuoruus sumussa
Overview: Three young men trying to find a place in society after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-04-12
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Tanssi yli hautojen
Overview: In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-08-11
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Vain kaksi tuntia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-04-29
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Sven Tuuva the Hero
Overview: For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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Tuomas Murasen rikos
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-04-17
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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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Hevoshuijari
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-08-15
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Sylvi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-09-10
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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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Olin nahjuksen vaimo
Overview: While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone towards Mr. Kaski and his abilities as a man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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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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Onnelliset
Overview: Pianist Lauri Alango and his wife Annina's fortune is cracked when opera diva Delia Rosati attracts Lauri to accompany her on tour.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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Saariston tyttö
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-01-30
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Stiller, Garbo & jag
Overview: One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-03-08
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Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
Overview: Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-04-08
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