Pirkka-Pekka Petelius
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Biography: Pirkka-Pekka Petelius (born 31 May 1953) is a Finnish actor, director, producer, screenwriter and politician. He has also released six records as a singer. He is a member of the Green League and was elected to the Finnish parliament in the 2019 election with 6,331 personal votes, but is not a member of the parliament any more. Petelius's breakthrough was in Yleisradio's sketch series Velipuolikuu (1983), which he wrote and also acted in. The popularity gained by the series started Petelius's career as one of the most well-known comedians in Finland. He gained immense popularity due to his work in the sketch series Pulttibois (and its sequel, Manitbois) with Aake Kalliala. Despite being known as a comedian Petelius has also acted in several more serious roles in films and television, especially in the recent years. He played Hietanen in Rauni Mollberg's The Unknown Soldier (1985). Other significant films have been e.g. Aki Kaurismäki's Hamlet Goes Business (1986), Åke Lindman's Lapin kullan kimallus (1999) and Peter Lindholm's Drakarna över Helsingfors (2001). He also provided the Finnish voice of Timon in Leijonakuningas (The Lion King) (1994). Description above from the Wikipedia article Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alatornio, Finland
Birthday: May 31, 1953
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Gender: Male
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The Classic
Overview: A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2001-02-23
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Linnut
Overview: A TV movie by Mikko Mattila.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-09-25
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Addiction
Overview: 30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she starts seeing handsome and rich young yacht owner Aleksi, things start going awry in her life. While her sister Sanna provides her with suitable alibis,sex therapist Nora tries to help her come to terms with her addiction
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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Hamlet Goes Business
Overview: When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-08-21
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The Unknown Soldier
Overview: Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-12-06
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Princess
Overview: Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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Hella W
Overview: The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-01-28
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1944 The Final Defence
Overview: The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries. This film depicts the true events through five separate stories.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-12-07
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Lapin kullan kimallus
Overview: In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north. The friends find gold at the first excavation site, which Kittilä's crown prince Konrad Planting and Edvard Manninen also start looking for.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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Rampe & Naukkis – kaikkien aikojen superpari
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-11-23
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8-Ball
Overview: 8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-02-22
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Dirty Hands
Overview: A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1989-10-05
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Kauhea murhamies Lalli
Overview: TV play about the legend of Lalli.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1981-05-08
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Ella and Friends 2: Paterock
Overview: Ella’s friend Pate has hard time learning multiplication tables. With a little help from his friends, he decides to be a rockstar so he wouldn’t need to study anymore but his manager could study for him. Soon music industry has big plans for Pate aka Paterock.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-12-27
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Jon
Overview: Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Eila, Rampe and Baby Girl
Overview: Baby Girl, 30, a poet with a bachelor's degree in arts, is anguished because of her relationship with Pirkka, a relatively smart, young man. Baby Girl's parents, Eila and Rampe, do their best to become friends with Pirkka and his elegant mother. Through coincidence and error Eila occupies her summerhouse neighbors' empty luxury villa. When Pirkka's mother drops by, Eila lies that she and Rampe own the fancy house. The showing off and lying escalate when Eila's mother and sister show up. The real owners of the house, an upper-class couple, Thomas and Monica, are driven away to Eila and Rampe's modest cottage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-12-26
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The Midwife
Overview: Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-09-04
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Love Records
Overview: The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2016-01-29
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The Look of a Killer
Overview: Viktor Kärppä was forced involuntarily in the middle of Russia's internal power struggle. Soon bunch of assassins as well as Security Police are trying to catch Kärppä. Kärppä's family is also in great danger. In order to save themselves and their families they need to resort to Kärppäs friend, the police Korhonen , as well as his brother Aleksei.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2016-02-05
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Kites Over Helsinki
Overview: Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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Calamari Union
Overview: A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles including stray dogs and defunct streetlights.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
Overview: This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-08-24
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Uuno Turhapuron veli
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-08-26
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Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
Overview: Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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Pölhölä
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1981-12-25
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Onks' Viljoo näkyny?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-11-04
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Linna
Overview: Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Josef seeks to make an appointment to see the ruler Herr Klamm inside his inaccessible abode, he becomes enmeshed in abuse from lowly villagers and bureaucrats alike. His endless false starts toward the castle's enigmatic interior are partly offset by a few sexual encounters but nothing alleviates his role as a victim of forces beyond his control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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Honeybunnies
Overview: A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-01-06
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Älä itke Iines
Overview: Älä itke Iines is an absurd comedy about an eccentric community that lives on the roofs and attic of an apartment building, struggling to improve their living conditions. The dialogue is entirely improvised by the actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
Overview: The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the king becomes so sad that he wants his heart taken out of his chest. The kingdom is turned into an effective society based on reason, and there is no longer place for emotions. When she grows up, the princess tries to make her father see the importance of play and emotions.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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Reunion 2: The Bachelor Party
Overview: The career of Tuomas’ in the music industry is in a downhill spiral – but his plans of getting married with Leila are in full swing. Niklas and Antti decide to throw Tuomas the bachelor party of all times – but things don’t always turn out as planned – and the dudes end up in the funeral service of their old classmate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2016-11-02
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Reunion
Overview: Luokkakokous is a story about three men that travel back to their hometown to attend their high school class reunion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2015-02-25
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Anita
Overview: Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with the male partner, who is mainly interested in the money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-01-28
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Unknown Soldier
Overview: The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-10-27
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Blindfolded
Overview: Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-03-12
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The Manila Rope
Overview: Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1976-09-28
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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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August Fools
Overview: An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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Lahja
Overview: A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-10-13
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Ryhmäteatteri
Overview: Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-02-03
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V. Y. Vihdoinkin yhdessä
Overview: Hese, the shy owner of a video company, travels on a moped to film a commissioned Christmas party. From the steps of his office, Hese finds an anonymous Christmas present, a Hese slipover, and begins to find out who it is from.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-11-28
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Once Upon a Time in the North
Overview: 19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns that his father will leave the Välitalo estate to his younger and exemplary brother, all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2012-02-17
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