Kaarlo Saarnio
Also Known As: Kaarlo Huttunen, K. Saarnio
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rääkkylä, Finland
Birthday: December 20, 1885
Deathday: December 12, 1967
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mr. Elanto
Overview: Jack Coski (Jaakko Koski) returns to Helsinki and gets impressed by co-op Elanto.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1930-10-15
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Isoviha
Overview: Pastor Petrelius does not accept the marriage wishes of his young daughter Karoliina and Paavo Paavalinpoika. Paavo wants to prove his manhood to the pastor and enlists in the King's forces, but is wounded in the Battle of Pultava. On his return to Finland, he finds his village besieged by Cossack Captain Voronoff.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-12-14
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Soita minulle, Helena!
Overview: Helena, a beautiful school teacher in a countryside hamlet is just going to marry her childhood friend Erkki, but a day before the wedding her first love Jari arrives to the scene.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-10-21
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Totuus on armoton
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-03-14
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Kirkastettu sydän
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-12-18
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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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The Women of Niskavuori
Overview: Aarne marries Martta because his mother tells him it is his duty as the eldest son to marry a wealthy girl. However, the attractive school teacher Ilona arrives in the village and causes complications when Aarne falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-01-16
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Salakuljettajan laulu
Overview: Customs officer Tapio goes undercover to reveal a smuggling ring, which operates within an entrainment troupe. While doing his detective work, he also gets to know the beautiful dancer Leila.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-11-07
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Naimisiin päiväksi
Overview: A Finnish romantic comedy, based on a play about cousins trying to inherit a legacy. To get the inheritance they must be married, even for a day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-01-04
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Radio tulee hulluksi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Niskavuori taistelee
Overview: The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-11-15
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Onnenpotku
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1936-03-22
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Onni pyörii
Overview: Story about about a young man who was raised in an orphanage. Kauko goes to Helsinki to work as a store help. The living the big city is not so easy as Kauko expects and not so grand.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-04-05
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Eteenpäin – elämään
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-01-29
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Helmikuun manifesti
Overview: February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-02-19
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Halveksittu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-03-19
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Ballaadi
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-02-13
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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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Meidän poikamme
Overview: Silent military propaganda film by Erkki Karu, later followed by the musical revue film Meidän poikamme merellä ("Our Boys at Sea", 1933) and Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa ("Our Boys in the Air – and We on Land", 1934), both of them also directed by Karu. The film comes with a orchestral accompaniment arranged by Raine Ampuja in 2005, based on the original score by Lauri Näre and Emil Kauppi, which in turn was based on traditional Finnish military tunes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1929-02-18
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Niskavuoren Aarne
Overview: Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In chronological order of the Niskavuori series, the film is the fourth. Aarne has married Ilona and left the house in Niskavuori, which he hosts, where his former wife Martta still lives, while the old mistress is holding the reins. Aarne and Ilona live in Helsinki, but Aarne has not been able to completely break away from Niskavuori, but keeps secretly in touch with the headmaster and gives instructions on the farm management.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-03-25
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Risti ja liekki
Overview: Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery disguised as a choir boy, but is revealed by a monk Rasmus, who also desires her, and is put on trial.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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1918
Overview: Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-09-20
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Kahden ladun poikki
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-08-23
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The Scarlet Dove
Overview: Dr. Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa follows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-03-10
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Anna Liisa
Overview: Set in the 1890s, Anna-Liisa and Johannes are young lovers. She agrees to his proposal because she is afraid that her crime will be revealed. Husso, along with her son Miko, threaten to reveal the young bride's past.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-03-03
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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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Serenaadiluutnantti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-05-20
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Köyhä laulaja
Overview: Sisters Irma and Airi Ranna's café Iltatähti has run into financial trouble. Touring musicians Heikki and Jussi end up as tenants in the same boarding house where the siblings and the poetic accountant live. Since the landlady does not allow music in her nursing home, the musicians practice at Iltatähti and revolutionize the life of the cafe.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-04-28
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Yhden yön hinta
Overview: The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen
Overview: Schoolboy Klaus is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and difficulties he keeps up his studies under the supervision of the grim Master Kahari.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-05-22
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Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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Opri
Overview:
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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Taikayö
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-11-12
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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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Scarlet Week
Overview: After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking around the now deserted island, he meets a beautiful woman camping alone and sunbathing in the nude on the beach. A hot romance flares up between the worker and the more upper-class married lady, lasting through the light-filled nights of the whole summer week until the woman's much older husband returns to the island the next weekend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-02-28
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Elinan surma
Overview: Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart Uolevi, and to marry Klaus Kurki, a local nobleman with money and influence. An ideal match according to her family and the greedy parish priest, but all is not as it seems: Kurki is a vicious man, tormented by the spirit of his last wife.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-09-03
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Kahden tanssin välillä
Overview: Forester Antti Kare and manager John Freyberg travel north in search of millions worth of timber sales. The manager's giddy daughter Margit also secretly joins the journey.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1930-01-26
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Kajastus
Overview: A historical drama depicting the Finnish struggle against Tsarist Russia. Opens at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in February 1899. Tsar Nicholas II signs the February Manifesto, the purpose of which is to abolish Finnish self-government. An act that arouse widespread opposition in Finland.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1930-04-13
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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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Juurakon Hulda
Overview: Poor but ambitious country girl Hulda arrives in the country's capital and gets a job as a maid for a bachelor Member of Parliament, Judge Soratie. She works hard, never loses her common sense, and starts taking evening classes. Keeping her studies secret from her employer for years, she eventually graduates from the university and becomes candidate in the parliamentary election, stressing women's and working people's rights. Romance with Judge Soratie finally ensues.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1937-10-17
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Pekka Puupää
Overview: Pete and Runt set up a kindergarten at their home, and unknowingly end up taking care of a kidnapped baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-04-30
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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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Kuisma ja Helinä
Overview: In the 1880s, an unruly group of Cossacks stays in Sankola's house in Hämälä. Soon the group's leader Kuisma sets his sights on the house's adopted daughter Helina . Isma, the owner of the farm, has also fallen in love with Helina.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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VMV 6
Overview: Coast guard battles the bootleggers who smuggle booze across the Gulf of Finland during the prohibition law.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1936-02-16
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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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Tottisalmen perillinen
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-04-14
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Aatamin puvussa ja vähän Eevankin
Overview: The film starts at the countryside, where station master Viirimäki is spending his summer holiday. He has gotten into the holiday mood to the extent that he wakes up from his stupor at the very moment he should already be getting back to work. Unfortunately the last ship from the island where he has been vacationing has already sailed, but as luck would have it, local residents Himanen and Kehkonen promise to help him out. Things turn out differently, however, and the attempt to help starts out an adventure filled with misunderstandings and plot twists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1931-02-02
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The Milkmaid
Overview: Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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Avoveteen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-08-27
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Murtovarkaus
Overview: Niilo, a son of a rich estate owner, is in love with a poor crofter's adopted daughter Heleena. However, on his father's orders, Niilo instead becomes engaged to Loviisa, a daughter of a wealthy landowner. When Niilo wants to call off the engagement, his proud and rejected bride begins to interfere with the lovers' relationship with the help of Penttula, who is said to be able to perform miracles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1926-09-27
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Niskavuoren Heta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Ruusu ja kulkuri
Overview: The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an international singing star, Aappo never forgets his first love Katri, who faithfully waits in Liminga for his return.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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Juha
Overview: Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova Shemeikka arrives from strange lands and takes Marja away with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-11-09
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