Ansa Ikonen
Also Known As: Aili Ansa Inkeri Ikonen, Ansa Rinne
Biography: Aili Ansa Inkeri Ikonen was a Finnish film and stage actress. She was an intelligent comedian and a skillful character actress. In a film career spanning three decades, Ikonen appeared in dozens of films, and was one of the most popular actresses of her time.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Birthday: December 19, 1913
Deathday: May 23, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Herrain herkku jokamiehen ruuaksi
Overview: Originally made as an ad for reindeer meat but includes notable documentary material from Lapland. A young couple from Helsinki goes to a restaurant and gets to know reindeer meat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa
Overview: A documentary or rather a bulletin style movie about Finnish Air Forces in the 1930s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1934-12-02
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Syntipukki
Overview: Adalbert "Mussu" Koikkalainen inherits 9,000 marks from his uncle. To buy a milk shop, Koikkalainen needs another thousand marks and work experience, so he applies for a job at the department store Sampo, where he is hired as a scapegoat to receive customer complaints. The saleswoman Irja Salo, who is under threat of dismissal, falls in love with the general manager Vaara, whom she thinks is a traveling salesman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1935-04-07
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Nokea ja kultaa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-10-21
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Kulkurin valssi
Overview: St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-01-19
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Minä ja ministeri
Overview: The rambunctious Priscilla Paukkaja breaks into the home of Foreign Ministry official Raimo Vehar and his girlfriend Marja and appoints herself the couple's new housekeeper. Tomera Priscilla controls both the finances of the Veharites and the foreign minister Hirvimaan himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1934-03-18
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Ja alla oli tulinen järvi
Overview: Set in Southern Finland between 1912 and 1936. Due to his father's drunkenness, high school student Jussi Raala has lost his inheritance, the manor house and the sawmill, to the gunman Lumia. Bitter and vengeful, Jussi decides to get the property back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1937-02-28
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Kaikki rakastavat
Overview: The romantic musical comedy Kaikki rakastavat is a key work in Finnish film history since it was the first feature film of Valentin Vaala as the house director of Suomi-Filmi and the film which launched the most beloved screen couple of Finland, Tauno Palo and Ansa Ikonen.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1935-11-24
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Vaimoke
Overview: Esko makes a bet that he will marry the first young woman he encounters. This turns out to be Kirsti, who promptly turns down the proposals. But when she finds about the bet, she agrees to marry him in order to get her revenge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1936-04-12
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Ratkaisun päivät
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-10-11
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SF-paraati
Overview: A love story between a taxi driver and a travel guide in the form of a musical.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-05-12
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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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Rakas lurjus
Overview: It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent by the housing commission. Abel and Jussi Siimes, two devoted haters of women, find themselves in this predicament. They need to find a subtenant quickly to avoid the possibility of the housing commission sending a woman, God forbid it, to live with them. Abel's acquaintance, an assessor, recommends his nephew Kaino as the perfect choice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-04-29
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Suomisen Olli rakastuu
Overview: Olli Suominen fancies his teacher and other shenanigans.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-12-25
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Gabriel, tule takaisin
Overview: A handsome young womanizer deceive tender women by first charming them and then taking their money.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-01-26
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Nainen on valttia
Overview: A famous operette star Kirsti Kalpa escapes her busy and selfish fiance and hides as maid to house of 3 bachelors ( professor, composer and butler) , who basically hate women.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-08-13
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Laitakaupungin laulu
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-03-05
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Isän vanha ja uusi
Overview: An architect, who has recently married a new, younger wife, tries to re-connect with his ex-wife, who is being courted by another man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-06-24
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Tyttö kuunsillalta
Overview: A widow and a husband tired of a loveless marriage rekindle the attraction they shared in their youth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-10-30
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Rykmentin murheenkryyni
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-10-30
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Miljoonavaillinki
Overview: A manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. An office manager promises to take the blame if the manager promises to behave better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Jossain on railo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Rusinoita
Overview: Meet the Feebles for kids.
Genres: Family Comedy Animation
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-02-21
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Koskenlaskijan morsian
Overview: Tornionjokilaakso at the end of the 19th century, Paloniemi's landlord Heikki tries to get out of his financial difficulties with the help of his son Juhan and Nuottaniemi's only daughter Hanna. The happiness of Hanna, who has fallen in love with Antti of Rehti Koskenalusta, is threatened by the evil and dangerous Korpikoski.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1937-03-28
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Vihaan sinua – rakas
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Äidittömät
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-01-10
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Olenko minä tullut haaremiin
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-02-26
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Professori Masa
Overview: A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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As Dream and Shadow…
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1937-09-26
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Kuriton sukupolvi
Overview: Immersed in his research work, professor Reinhold Varavaara realizes that he has neglected his children's upbringing. He falls in love with his son Pelle's girlfriend Marja and becomes a laughing stock in the eyes of his family. The offended father sets out to discipline his ill-behaved children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1937-11-28
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Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu
Overview: A poet finds a new muse in young woman.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-10-06
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Serenaadi sotatorvella eli sotamies Paavosen tuurihousut
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-12-26
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Jumalan tuomio
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-04-02
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Oi, kallis Suomenmaa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-12-22
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Uuteen elämään
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-09-06
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Täysosuma
Overview: A young heiress settles into a holiday hotel in search of a suitable husband. There are enough groom candidates, some gentlemen, and some cheaters. All that is certain is that the misfortunes will not end.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-11-09
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Rantasuon raatajat
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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Tyttö astuu elämään
Overview:
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-02-28
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Vaivaisukon morsian
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-01-15
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Pikku-Matti maailmalla
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-08-01
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Kulkurin tyttö
Overview: Baron Metter is threatening to evict a crofter family from their home. Lauri Vaara a student passing by, falls in love with Marja the family's daughter, and promises to help save their home. Baroness Olivia Metter falls for the young student and helps him with the rescue plan.
Genres: Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-01-11
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Telefon
Overview: Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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