Matti Lehtelä
Also Known As: Матти Лехтела
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Riihimäki, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: May 28, 1906
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 13, 1971
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Kulkurin tyttö
Overview: Baron Metter is threatening to evict a crofter family from their home. Lauri Vaara a student passing by, falls in love with Marja the family's daughter, and promises to help save their home. Baroness Olivia Metter falls for the young student and helps him with the rescue plan.
Genres: Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-01-11
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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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Nummisuutarit
Overview: Esko is going to a neighboring village to marry Kreeta after her father arranged the marriage with Esko's father. Esko takes Mikko as his travel companion and that's where Esko's ordeals begin.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-02-01
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Scandal in the Girls' School
Overview: The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the school. In addition to the loosening morals of the students, the warm relationship between two girls is a causing concern.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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Ruma Elsa
Overview: The boyish, temperamental chemistry student Elsa Kassel disapproves of her mother and sisters running after men, but when she hears that she's referred to as "ugly Elsa", she takes on a transformation. The new, charming Elsa tests her attractiveness on men and causes confusion all the way to her mother's new groom, Professor Harjula.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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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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Musta rakkaus
Overview: Marjatta lives in poor conditions in Tampere with her widowed father Arttu who works as a factory worker. Marjatta gets to know engineering student Pauli whose constantly worsening mental health problems and jealousy become a threat to Marjatta and her close circle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-04-05
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Villi Pohjola
Overview: A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-09-30
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Kovanaama
Overview: Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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Olemme kaikki syyllisiä
Overview: A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He starts to date a girl with fateful consequences.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-11-05
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Syntynyt terve tyttö
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-02-07
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Kuollut mies vihastuu
Overview: Rainer Sarmo and Mikko Vehmer stumble upon a Russian counterfeit league. They help Leila Varta, who tries to save her brother Raimo from the evil Josef Hakim. The beautiful pianist Maria Lichter is puzzled by the events.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-08-13
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"Minä elän"
Overview: The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-10-10
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Kalle-Kustaa Korkin seikkailut
Overview: Pekka Lipponen is trying to trace hidden diamonds before a group of bandits finds them. He enlists his friend Kalle-Kustaa Korkki to help him.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-08-19
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Kuollut mies kummittelee
Overview: Sarmo explores the mystery associated with the murder of a landowner and the tangle of crimes, threats, and conspiracies created by a letter he left behind. At the same time Sarmo helps the consuls of imaginary small states of South America in a difficult situation, and charms their daughters.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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Taistelu Heikkilän talosta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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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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Kanavan laidalla
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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Vieras mies
Overview: A couple who have moved from the city manage a collapsing farm. The man Alfred is an alcoholic, therefore the responsible to solve the situation is his wife Katriina. Help is provided by the former owner Hermann.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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Johan nyt on markkinat!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1966-03-31
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Niin se on, poijaat!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-12-27
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Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi
Overview: Wager is Count Mauritz Armborg, the young master of the estate. Linnanheimo plays Katariina (Catherine) the nanny to Mauritz's nieces and nephews. The two fall in love and decide to escape to Italy via Denmark where they have planned to get married. There are always complications because Mauritz's grandmother doesn't want him to marry below him - she has decided that Mauritz is to marry the Swedish beauty, Ingeborg Liliecrona.
Genres: Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-01-31
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Tyttö astuu elämään
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-02-28
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Ristikon varjossa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-01-20
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Rovaniemen markkinoilla
Overview: Based on a song by the same name. It was the Genre Popularizer for the Rillumarei film and live entertainment genre that drew from the musical couplet genre of light, cleverly written, often satirical songs. Many of these films were based on an existing song, or a song was specifically written to be the foundation of a film.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-10-11
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Tanssi yli hautojen
Overview: In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-08-11
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Hilmanpäivät
Overview: The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but due to the confusion, extinguishing the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-10-08
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Pikku Ilona ja hänen karitsansa
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-01-11
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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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Autuas eversti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-09-05
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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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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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Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä
Overview: Pekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained as frogmen. During the diving exercises, the friends encounter the mermaid Helmi, whom they help into the bathtub at home, to Justiina's shock. The friends, who have become civilians, eventually end up on a plane bound for Suez, being cornered by UN soldiers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Verta käsissämme
Overview: After returning home from being a prisoner of war Viktor gets a job from his friend Rolf with whom he had served. The men trust each other until Viktor meets Rolf’s wife Astrid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-11-21
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Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä
Overview: Trade counselor Lillukka leaves his entire fortune to Pekka Puupää, who, thanks to cartoons and films, has become closer to him than his immediate family, who are pursuing their own interests. Pekka starts running a toy factory and hires a freckle-faced bowling boy as the company's errand boy. Widowed trade counselor Gunilla Lillukka tries to get married to Pätkä, who has been promoted to assistant director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-08-29
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Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Overview: Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
Overview: Justiina pushes Pekka and Pätkä to take painting lessons after realizing that art can be a way to earn a living. With the help of the yard children, a painting is created that wins first prize at a contemporary art exhibition. In the meantime, the men, along with their assistant Miss Kaihokielo, have been charged with art theft. After the misunderstanding is cleared up, the Puupääs use the art prize money to convert the house's bomb shelter into a children's clubroom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-09-18
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Kirkastuva sävel
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-11-08
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Professori Masa
Overview: A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Rion yö
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-08-03
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Isäpappa ja keltanokka
Overview: A widower takes care of his three children who are trying to find him a new wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-03-23
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Maija löytää sävelen
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-07-28
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Se alkoi sateessa
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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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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Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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Varsovan laulu
Overview: A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Onni etsii asuntoa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-01-21
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Jengi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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Lumisten metsien tyttö
Overview: Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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Olet mennyt minun vereeni
Overview: Remembering the past, Rea returns to the moment that changed her life. Coming of age, Rea's alcoholic fate is wrapped around two men, composer Tauno Tarras and sea captain Erkki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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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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People in the Summer Night
Overview: A story set over one night in a small rural community we watch various relationships and actions among local people; these include birth, death, and conflicts fuelled by alcohol. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside. Lumberjacks, a deer-eyed young man Nokia, a family of poor farmers, a young girl and her lover. New life is born, old life dies, man is slain in his prime, and his widow continues her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-10-09
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Sankarialokas
Overview: Sankarialokas is a parody about military life from year 1955.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-07-28
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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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Alaston malli karkuteillä
Overview: A comedy about a poor artist who is accidentally accused of the murder of his fiancee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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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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Taas tyttö kadoksissa!
Overview: Police chief Olavi, health nurse Liisa Niemi and photo reporter Takola are investigating the disappearance of a local girl.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-05-03
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Rakuuna Kalle Kollola
Overview: Cavalryman Kalle Kollola makes a fool of himself in order to get by with less service during his time in the army. Aunt Loviisa, who has come to see him, urges her witty but lazy cousin to straighten up. Aunt Loviisa also helps Miss Hilja Aro settle her differences with the horse master Kalpa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-09-10
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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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Siltalan pehtoori
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1934-11-11
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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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Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa
Overview: Justiina Puupää drives her husband Pekka and his friend Pätkä to look for work. The two decide to make money the easy way and try to have an accident after first getting accident insurance. After trying their luck, they hurt their heads and in the hospital, the comrades see each other's more outrageous antics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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Time of Roses
Overview: In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-02-07
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Vain sinulle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-04-29
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Radio tekee murron
Overview: Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book their heist to coincide. Teräsvuori gets caught but escapes from police custody to start his private investigations together with female radio colleague Eila.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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Punainen viiva
Overview: The story of the first elections in Finland
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-09-04
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Varjoja Kannaksella
Overview: Lieutenant Ville Somero investigates a sabotage at a fortress site on the Karelian Isthmus in the summer of 1939. His suspicions are directed at the guests of a nearby guesthouse. Aarno Teräs an engineer leading the fortification site, and his bride Birgit Lahti get into trouble because of a band of spies and dancer Veronica Sorrento.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-11-07
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Omena putoaa…
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-09-19
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Dynamiittityttö
Overview: A smart set girl wants more excitement in her life and ends being mixed up in criminal activities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-10-01
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Jossain on railo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Herra sotaministeri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-08-09
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Leena
Overview: Unemployed girl shoplifts in department store. Son of a wealthy family notice the shoplifting but won't turn her in. After awhile they are seen together and press thinks they are engaged.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-12-31
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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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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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Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa
Overview: An ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be his stand-in to escape the ring of spies threatening his life. Many beautiful women cross Kivi's path before the spy ring is eventually crushed.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-02-27
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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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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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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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Salainen ase
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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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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Laivan kannella
Overview: Young sailor Arvi falls in love with a dance girl Kerttu in a Spanish tavern, who says that she is half-Finnish and wants to go find her real father.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-11-26
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