Ere Kokkonen
Also Known As: Erkki Olavi Kokkonen, Esko Laukka
Biography: Erkki Olavi "Ere" Kokkonen (7 July 1938 – 16 October 2008), born in Savonlinna, was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He worked closely with Spede Pasanen all the way from the 1960s until Spede's death, as a director, writer and also an actor. Kokkonen's feature film debut was Millipilleri (1966), co-directed with Spede Pasanen and Jukka Virtanen. In later decades, when Turhapuro films were made less frequently, Kokkonen scripted and directed the Vääpeli Körmy series of films His career as a director also includes filming of Arto Paasilinna's books, including The Ten Graters and A Charming Mass Suicide. Kokkonen worked for both YLE and MTV3, where he served as entertainment director from 1974 to 1984. Kokkonen was the founder of the Comedy Theater Arena in 1995. He was the theatre's artistic director, director and screenwriter for most of the theater's performances. His wife Anna-Maija Kokkonen is the CEO of Arena. With his ex-wife Titta Jokinen, Kokkonen has daughter Kiti Kokkonen who is an actress. In 1991 Ere Kokkonen founded a film production company, Ere Kokkonen Oy, which is still working. In 2007 he wrote his memoirs, titled Memories return in Fragments. Kokkonen died at the age of 70 in 2008 after a prolonged illness.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Savonlinna, Finland
Birthday: July 07, 1938
Deathday: October 16, 2008
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Gender: Male
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Pikkupojat
Overview: OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandbox as characters aged 4, 5 and 6. Pasanen even has his trademark beard, for Christ's sake!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-12-25
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Pohjan tähteet
Overview: Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-12-25
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Uuno Turhapuro
Overview: Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1973-08-24
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Jussi Pussi
Overview: Jussi, a student admired by all women, is inadvertently selected to represent both left-wing and right-wing parties in the parliamentary elections. All Jussi cares about is the beautiful, blonde Irmeli.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
Overview: Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1991-10-18
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Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava
Overview: New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-08-15
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Pähkähullu Suomi
Overview: A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the film’s whole premise is about presenting Finland in hilarious fashion to foreigners and perhaps also making fun of some of the myths of Finnish culture for Finns themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1967-08-25
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Noin 7 veljestä
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-08-23
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Hei kliffaa hei
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Millipilleri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1966-08-16
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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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Uuno Turhapuron muisti palailee pätkittäin
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-09-30
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Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
Overview: The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-11-02
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