Also Known As: Rauha Olivia Elisabet Rentola
Biography: Rauha Olivia Elisabet Rentola (4 February 1919, Kuhmoinen − 20 July 2005) was a Finnish actress. During her career, she appeared in close to a hundred films while also working for Finnish National Theatre for half a century. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kuhmoinen, Finland
Birthday: February 04, 1919
Deathday: July 20, 2005
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Gender: Female
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Overview: Set in 19th century country side and a small town. Leni and later her daughter Hanni living in Pimeänpirtti croft are seduced by Otto von Holten, the Patron of Kankaanpää Estate.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-03-07
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-03-21
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-09-09
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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Overview: Master Tuula Vihervo teaches languages at a women's college, where American-Finnish Charles Thompson Jr arrives to do an inspection on behalf of his father's college donor. The arrival of a guest and Tuula's infatuation causes a stir inside the college and in a restaurant in Helsinki, where Tuula starts performing as the singer Irina Meller.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-03-17
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Overview: Unexpected romance is in the air when a young woman from Finnish boarding school meets an American millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-01-23
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Overview: A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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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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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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Overview: 1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu Jalle-sedä. In Helsinki, the young people continue their courtship under the supervision of Vapu's aunt, Moster Mella. However, Vapu's father, business advisor Ossian Biörcke, is not as accepting when his daughter's actions begin to be revealed.
Genres: Comedy Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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Overview: Based on short stories by early 20th century feminist writer Maria Jotuni, the film is a series of lively dialogue scenes between men and women, young and old, living in a small Finnish town. Most episodes evolve into humorous battles between the sexes. The film's central character is a young maid played by Maija Karhi.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-08-13
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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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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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Overview: The film tells the story of the women of Larsvik Manor, especially the young lady of the house Barbi during World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-12-25
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-02-07
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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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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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Overview: Helena Kara plays a dual role in this spectacularly portrayed adventure story where a real Countess and a false one cause misunderstandings. The film won Jussi Awards for filming and staging.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-11-24
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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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Overview: The military farce, directed by Lasse Pöysti, is based on Joel Laikka's novel. The illiterate Nieminen (Pöysti), who starts his military service through mischief and being tempted by other rookies, causes confusion in the barracks. At the behest of colonel (Paavo Jännes), attempts are made to teach him in different ways - the women of the locality are also interested in teaching. Soon Nieminen will be the competing with sergeant major Vasikainen (Reino Valkama) for the affections of the colonel's cook Vieno (Toini Vartiainen).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-07-04
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-10-29
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Overview: A story about the passengers of the inland waterway Heinävesi. Salli, the daughter of the captain, dreams of an acting career and joins a performance by a theater company traveling on a ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-09-16
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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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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Overview: Based on a novel by Aleksis Kivi. Follows the story of seven brothers of Jukola in 19th century Finland.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-10-01
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Overview: At the eve of Crimean war orphaned Regina lives with her grandmother in a small cabin near a lavish villa. As the summer approaches there is great anticipation of a big ball to be held.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-04-06
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Overview: A young heiress settles into a holiday hotel in search of a suitable husband. There are enough groom candidates, some gentlemen, and some cheaters. All that is certain is that the misfortunes will not end.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-11-09
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Overview: An artist bases a painting for a revealing lingerie ad on a photo of a girl he had found torn from a magazine, not knowing that the girl is in fact the daughter of the Finnish minister of finance. A scandal is about to erupt, and the artist is given 48 hours to find a strikingly similar-looking female model who could serve as his alibi. The minister's daughter decides to fool the artist by pretending to be a lowly girl of the streets, whom the artist then recruits as his "model".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-12-21
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Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-04-08
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-02-22
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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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Overview: Pekka is given the task of renting a summer place, but real estate agent Aadolf Muikku tricks him into buying a villa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-11-08
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-01-10
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-12-03
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-07-28
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-07-18
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-10-27
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-12-21
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-12-29
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-04-12
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Overview: A manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. An office manager promises to take the blame if the manager promises to behave better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Overview: Director Emil Rantamo goes with his family to the country for the summer. The family's son Fritsu gets engaged to Tipuli Niemi. Sausage maker Niemi thinks his daughter is engaged to the manager Rantamo himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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Overview: A man dreaming of becoming a private detective gets suck into an investigation of a crime involving the theft of a secret chemical formula.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-04-04
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-03-29
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Overview: Presentation film of the city of Pori on its 400th anniversary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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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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Overview: Bakery entrepreneur August Kassinen is worried about his musician son, who is going on a tour with his singer girlfriend. Kassinen's business affairs do not go smoothly, and through misunderstandings related to black market transactions, he gets into trouble with the police.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-03-19
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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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Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-08-20
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-03-14
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-12-31
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Overview: The brothers of Yli-Koskela farm fall for the same woman. Then Aarne believes he has killed a man. Artturi sees the case and saves the man from drowning to the rapids. He takes advantage of the situation and tells the woman, Lea, that his brother is a murderer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-02-25
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Overview: Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky’s famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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Overview: The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1941-03-02
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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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Overview: Tom Mack falls in love with fashion designer Leila Linna. Romance develops, with a little diamond smuggling to keep things interesting.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-04-30
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Overview: A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so Palmu, Kokki and Virta begin the investigation: who had come to the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap while Mrs. Skrof was asleep?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-09-15
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Overview: A love story between a taxi driver and a travel guide in the form of a musical.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-05-12
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Overview: A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves to a small rural village to start a new life with a new name and his new money, but finds that it's harder to escape his past than he thought it would be.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-08-03
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-03-05
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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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Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-08-16
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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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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-04-29
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Overview: Teacher's daughter Anna cannot enter the music college because of her family's opposition. At the request of her relatives she goes to Helsinki to study administrative sciences, but nasty fellow students make the girl leave the university and apply to become a nurse.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-04-25
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Overview: Dentist Lauri Liesi is performing as a magician in the Hotel Metropol. Meanwhile, during his performance top-secret letters of engineer Arpila are stolen from his room. Mr. Liesi is then being accused of the theft. To clear his name he starts to investigate and search the culprits from the criminal underworld. With the help of a former circus man Romonen he begins to unveil the truth.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-08-26
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-08-16
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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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Overview: A story about Meeri who is going through a divorce. She is hiding the relationship with a boxer. After seeing an advertisement in a magazine, she then hires a cavalier from an ad agency to escort her home from an upper-class party.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-10-07
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-10-21
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-08-17
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-08-04
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Overview: Tuula, Mirri and Aino are roommates at a nurse college. At her hospital internship, Aino works with Dr. Eero who has had an affair with Viivi, the director of the nurses' dormitory. At the same time, Tuula is starting to get closer to Mirri's fiancé Ragnar who has begun to doubt Mirri's love and loyalty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1946-08-09
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Overview: Two conservative men are surprised when they find out that their wives are actually athletes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-06-26
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Overview: In mid-19th century Finland, Klaus von Rapp marries young Anette Erling. The marriage is full of happiness until Klaus’s deception is exposed and changes everything with catastrophic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-09-12
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Overview: Frustrated housewife Elisabet Avovirta has a spring romance with a younger man, journalist Jaakko Huhtikuu. Love sprinkles in the rays of the spring sun and eventually bubbles over the edges.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-04-30
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Overview: 1790 Turku. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus Schildt.
Genres: Comedy Romance History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-11-17
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Overview: Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past. Irma attempts to commit suicide, and resurrects at the city morgue after being pronounced dead. After the incident, she wanders out direction-less, being pursued by the doctor who treated her and also a strange, tall man.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-09-15
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-11-29
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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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Overview: The two sons of the Forsgården estate - Arne and Arthur - both fall for the same woman, the beautiful but poor Lea. She has on the other hand only eyes for Arne. After Arne during a fight thinks he has killed a log driver and flees, Lea finds herself in a difficult situation and is forced to marry Arthur.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-01-12
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