Rainer Kaunisto
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toholampi, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: May 27, 1950
Age: 74 years old
Gender: Male
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Beauty and the Bastard
Overview: Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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Taarka
Overview: The first film in the Seto language in the world speaks about the brightest heroine of a small people, the folk singer Hilana Taarka, a woman who lived her whole life as an outcast in a small chimney-less hut; as an unmarried mother of children in poverty, begging her bread, doing odd jobs and singing. She always sang the truth, sometimes bitter, sometimes funny, sometimes cruel. She was feared, despised and coveted. Taarka sang throughout her remarkable life, throughout her fate, from a small Seto village to international fame. And she sang well. Really well. Taarka became the Mother of the Song, a legend. But as a woman, as a member of the community, the Seto people never really accepted her. Taarka - a despised woman and a worshiped singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2008-08-14
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Mercy All the Way
Overview: A group of women working in an unemployment office in a small Finnish town have started to give out sex to outcast young men in order to prevent future school shootings in Finland. Mirja (35) tries to hide, that after spending a night with unemployed Marko (23), she has fallen in love. Saving Finland is at stake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2014-11-22
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Gone
Overview: Stuck living in his childhood home, now with his own family, Matti has been yearning for change. One day, the wait is over. He finds himself suddenly transported from one place to another – miles away.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-11-29
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Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief
Overview: Summer vacation has just begun. In honor of it, Serena Rapper and Lennart Lindberg decide to go on holiday. Ricky gets a new bicycle as a consolation, but it disappears mysteriously. Ricky and Nelly Noodlehead go looking for it which turns into a thrilling adventure.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-02-12
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The Café of My Memories
Overview: A musical film about human relationships and how today's working life and the pressures of our surroundings can lead a person to the point of exhaustion.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-03-28
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