Eino Jurkka
Also Known As: Eino Juurivirta
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Birthday: February 09, 1894
Deathday: February 12, 1953
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Synnin puumerkki
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-09-20
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Yli rajan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-10-11
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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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Ollin oppivuodet
Overview: Olli, the spoiled young heir of the Koivumäki manor, is separated from his family and brought to Sweden by his cousin. After running away to Finland, he ends up in an educational institution, from where he escapes with the help of his friend Ränni Pelle and returns to his parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1920-12-27
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Viimeinen vieras
Overview: Inspector Puosu investigates the murder of smuggler Nelly with journalist Harn. Doubts are directed at wholesaler Antti Rajapalo, whose innocence is believed only by Rajapalo's secretary Ane Arvila.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-03-23
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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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Kaksi Vihtoria
Overview: Farce which deals with the position of men and women, with the concept of marriage... It's a story about two men both called Vihtori in the vortex of love, gender and "estate".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-02-05
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When Father Has Toothache
Overview: A man who has little compassion for his friend's and wife's toothache, soon learns how bad it can be when he gets one of his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1922-04-17
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Unelma karjamajalla
Overview: A small village provides a scene for intrigues, fights, love, jealousy, accusations, and revenge.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-09-22
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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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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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Eulalia-täti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-11-17
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Yö on pitkä
Overview: Åke Strandberg has managed to get a fine education and a good job at the bank, but he wants more. He wants to get rich no matter what. After holidays with his girl Rita, he comes back to Helsinki completely broke and meets up with his buddy Jussi in a bar. For months they embezzle money from the bank, but eventually do realize they have to cover the missing amount by orchestrating and committing a robbery which will then rouse the interest of the police. A hide and seek follows as they try to make their way abroad.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-10-31
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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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Varaventtiili
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-03-22
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Sininen varjo
Overview: Valentin Vaala's first sound film. Only fragments survive.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1933-03-25
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Helsingin kuuluisin liikemies
Overview: Mattila's relatives Konstu and Fransi travel to Helsinki to meet their friend Kalle Liljepeki, who runs a failing general store in Sörnäis. The companions get Maiki, the daughter of the house, and Sundi, a forest consultant. A lot of misunderstandings arise and a story about the devil in Kalle's shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1934-02-18
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Kun isä tahtoo…
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1935-09-08
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Vaimoke
Overview: Esko makes a bet that he will marry the first young woman he encounters. This turns out to be Kirsti, who promptly turns down the proposals. But when she finds about the bet, she agrees to marry him in order to get her revenge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1936-04-12
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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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Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa
Overview: A documentary or rather a bulletin style movie about Finnish Air Forces in the 1930s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1934-12-02
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Halveksittu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-03-19
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Nummisuutarit
Overview: In the comedy set in Etelä-Hämee in the middle of the 19th century, Esko, the son of a cobbler, goes with the speaker Mikko Vilkastu to find a bride for himself from Karri's adopted daughter, Crete. However, not everything goes according to plan.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-12-25
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