Yrjö Tähtelä
Also Known As: Yrjö Juhani Tähtelä, Юрье Тяхтеля
Biography: Yrjö Tähtelä was born on 9 March 1936 in Helsinki, Finland. He was an actor and producer, known for Topralli (1966), Huivi (1962) and Doverie (1976). He was previously married to Ritva Vepsä.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Birthday: March 09, 1936
Deathday: January 09, 2025
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Trust
Overview: Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and the Soviet Union. In December 1917, the Finnish delegation, composed of Chairman of the Senate Finance Department P.E. Svinhufvud (Vilho Siivola), Senator Carl Enckell (Yrjö Tähtelä) and State Secretary Gustaf Idman (Yrjö Paulo) arrive in St. Petersburg to meet V.I. Lenin (Kirill Lavrov) to gain recognition for the country's independence.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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Human Signs
Overview: A short collage film inspired by the lettristic movement, created in collaboration by experimental filmmaker Eino Ruutsalo and modernist poet Väinö Kirstinä.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1966-01-02
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Kultainen vasikka
Overview: Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-11-24
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Vaaksa vaaraa
Overview: A technician working in the telephony company receives a mysterious packet.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1965-11-05
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Autotytöt
Overview: Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-10-07
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Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen
Overview: Bis später, ich muß mich erschießen is based on Soviet dramatist Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-03-16
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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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Pieni luutatyttö
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-10-17
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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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Plus Minus
Overview: A short avant-garde film from Finnish director Eino Ruutsalo.
Genres: Drama Animation
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Minkkiturkki
Overview: A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-02-03
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Varjostettua valoa
Overview: Surgeon Niilo Leino finds out that his former fellow student suffering from fears and insecurity is hired as his colleague. Leino tries to give him opportunities to show his ability but it occurs he hasn't escaped from his fears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-09-21
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Äl' yli päästä perhanaa
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Genres: Comedy History Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-02-02
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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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Raportti eli balladi laivatytöistä
Overview: A journalist is reporting on prostitutes active in the harbor area. He falls in love with the beautiful and different Vuokko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1964-09-04
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Baltutlämningen
Overview: Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced into military service by the Nazis to fight against the Russians. Fearing reprisals from the Russians for fighting against them, they struggle desperately to stay in Sweden. After a hunger strike, suicides, and political intervention by Sweden fails to keep them from their former enemy, they are ultimately given over to the Russian authorities. The men are sentenced to hard labor in prison camps and later released, and Latvians are plunged into repression by the aftermath of the bloody war. The cycle of political unrest was still apparent more than 50 years after the conflict.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-09-29
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Sensuela
Overview: Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and the two develop warm feelings for each other during his convalescence. Years later, after the war, Hans returns to Lapland as a freelance photographer and manages to lure Laila to run away with him to capital Helsinki to start a career as a photo model, much to the chagrin of her traditional father Aslak. After initial happiness, however, Hans abandons Laila and the decadent lifestyle of a big city sends her life into a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1973-05-29
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Topralli
Overview: Rudolf Räpylä is ordered to organize a big show night to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a record company.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1966-04-22
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The Parisian Tie
Overview: A TV movie based on the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1965-09-05
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Hetkiä yössä
Overview: Experimental Finnish movie from 1961, about one night in the city. In 1960, the director Eino Ruutsalo spoke of the movie with these words: "The camera moves around the night - loose images are created - they create memories, consortia in us, or do not create. Man as such is interesting. Woman for a man. Man for a woman. There is no final destiny - there are only events. Different people touch each other - nothing is too solid and not ready. Everything hovers and gets new shapes".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-08-25
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Tuulinen päivä
Overview: The strange, disjointed love story in the existentialist film Windy Day transported the young lovers to an island off the town of Kotka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-11-09
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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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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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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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Naiset
Overview: Ritva Hakala the single parent of a little boy is working in the office. While Ritva talks lightly about men and her future plans with other women at the office and coffees, she has to avoid her jealous and violent ex-husband, who threatens a relationship with her new male friend Kale.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1964-01-31
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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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Laituri
Overview: A bohemian writer travels to the countryside for inspiration and falls for a woman who lives in an unhappy marriage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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Presencia lejana
Overview: A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.
Genres: Documentary Crime History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Flame Top
Overview: This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, working as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics, he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as a result, had to run back to Finland to hide. Once established in the comparative safety of a small village, he taught school in order to support his real vocation as a writer. Always living on the edge of poverty, if not square in the middle of it, Lassila continues to avoid public contact - he keeps his identity low-key and camoflages it by publishing under a variety of pseudonyms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1980-10-17
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For the Matches
Overview: In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
Genres: Comedy Adventure History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1980-10-12
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