Elvi Saarnio
Also Known As: Elvi Mathilda af Hällström, Elvi Heinonen, Элви Саарнио
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kotka, Finland
Birthday: May 28, 1919
Deathday: June 21, 2002
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Tähtisilmä
Overview: Poor orphan coffee delivery girl loves a poor painter who can't sell his artworks. Painter likes delivery girl, but has stuck in a friend zone. Delivery girl tries to help the painter to get forward in his career, but meanwhile a rich woman becomes too interested towards the painter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-04-15
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Here, Beneath the North Star
Overview: Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-09-13
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Hallin Janne
Overview: In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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The Bridal Wreath
Overview: A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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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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Asessorin naishuolet
Overview: After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-02-07
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2 hauskaa vekkulia
Overview: Musical comedy about two friends trying to advance in music business at any price.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-04-30
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Silja – nuorena nukkunut
Overview: In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a number of bachelors, ranging from simple farmhand Väinö to sophisticated young student Armas whom she meets when working for a charming old professor. However, Silja's health starts to deteriorate, and when the Finnish Civil War breaks up in 1918, she is inadvertently involved in a small incident after which her loyalties are questioned by both the Reds and the Whites.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-04-26
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Muuan sulhasmies
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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An Unknown Friend
Overview: The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off. A movie about insurance scams. Inspector Susikoski investigates.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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Portraits of Women
Overview: Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-02-06
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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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Herra Huu – jestapa jepulis penikat sipuliks
Overview: Lonely ghost Mister Who goes around scaring orphan kids in this Finnish children's musical.
Genres: Music Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1973-12-21
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Suomalaistyttöjä Tukholmassa
Overview: Three Finnish girls travel to Stockholm to look for work. But soon they notice that the big city is not such a great place as they thought. Most of the foreign men who they meet there are crooks and liars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-04-04
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Kolmiapila
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-03-29
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Saariston tyttö
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-01-30
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Young Love
Overview: Story of first love affair during summer school holidays, in a pastoral setting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-11-04
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Kuningas kulkureitten
Overview: The young Count Martin von Tandenskiöld who has returned from the war is forced into a battle with a Russian colonel after he harasses his bride Karin. Chased by the Cossacks Martin escapes and joins the old wanderer. On the way Martin encounters adventures and beautiful women.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-11-27
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Vihtori ja Klaara
Overview: The film revolves around Vihtori's clandestine involvement with an attractive and rather worldly young woman named Ritva, who is planning to marry boxing champion and garage owner Klasu Tullari, son of Vihtori's friend Tomi, and their interactions with daughter Vappu and her fiancé, Peter von Schaslick, a mechanic in Klasu's garage, under the nose of the threatening and suspicious Klaara, with lazy son Nisse acting as a rather sardonic Greek chorus. Teuvo Tulio's only comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-08-19
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Hätävara
Overview: The priest's daughter, Vappu Kankare first irritates and then admires the ambitious habitant, Jalmar "Jali" Kinnunen. After the studies, Vappu and Jali get married, but the marriage is disappointing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-01-15
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Putkinotko
Overview: A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina Käkriäinen are poor sharecroppers struggling to feed their ten children, so they run a liquor selling business on the side...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-09-10
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Laivaston monnit maissa
Overview: Sailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-07-16
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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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Marja pieni!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1972-01-28
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Aidankaatajat
Overview: Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-08-20
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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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Lain mukaan
Overview: Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the previous fall, when Patron Oppman begins to approach Maria, offering her money in return for services.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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Näkemiin Helena
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-02-18
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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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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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Nuori mylläri
Overview: A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to moralistic criticism, even though he is in fact only in love with the tailor's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-02-14
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Lyrics and Lace
Overview: Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people. It's not just a romantic legend. In wry but basically directionless Finnish movie, Paavo Pentikainen plays one of these ungainly beings, a man whose last published work is decades in the past, who probably hasn't written anything in years, but who still has an uncanny knack for precise observation, "pinning the tail on the donkey" almost every time. In the movie, the poet, accompanied by his young assistant, takes a minor celebrity's swaggering tour of small cultural centers and retirement homes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1992-11-06
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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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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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