Juhani Kumpulainen
Also Known As: Jussi Kumpulainen, J. Kumpulainen
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Viipuri, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: July 31, 1925
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 12, 1991
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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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Yhteinen vaimomme
Overview: A story set in post-war Helsinki, where the last released prisoners of war arrive. They are accompanied by Captain Erkki Lahtinen, who returns to his home and back to his wife Jenni. However, during his four-year imprisonment, Erkki has been pronounced dead and Jenni has remarried to office manager Nevamaa.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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Rakkaus kahleissa
Overview: A lock factory worker Pertti would like to marry his girlfriend Verna, but fears they don't have enough money. His brother Martti is a member of a youth gang that is planning a robbery with three other young men. When the boys have to flee at the time of the robbery, Pertti who secretly shadowed them sees an opportunity to solve his money problem.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-08-26
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The Bridal Wreath
Overview: A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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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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Asessorin naishuolet
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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Uuno Turhapuro
Overview: Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1973-08-24
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Pikkupojat
Overview: OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandbox as characters aged 4, 5 and 6. Pasanen even has his trademark beard, for Christ's sake!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-12-25
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Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-10-21
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Noin 7 veljestä
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-08-23
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Viu-hah hah-taja
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1974-08-30
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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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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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Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-05-16
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Pekka Puupää kesälaitumilla
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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Pekka ja Pätkä lumimiehen jäljillä
Overview: Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and take Justiina along as a bait.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-07-30
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Neiti talonmies
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-09-02
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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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Pastori Jussilainen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-10-21
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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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Autuas eversti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-09-05
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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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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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Kohtalo tekee siirron
Overview: Three brothers, all with their own problems that could be solved by money, try to come up with a plan to get they share of their uncle's fortune. Then a murder takes place and it is the job of a detective to find out which one of the brothers did it.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-11-20
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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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Portraits of Women
Overview: Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-02-06
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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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Hei, rillumarei!
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-02-19
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Veteraanin voitto
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-03-18
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Rakas varkaani
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-06-28
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Minä soitan sinulle illalla
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-05-26
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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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Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
Overview: The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1990-11-02
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Mä oksalla ylimmällä
Overview: A fictional love story between famous composer Gabriel Linsén and opera singer Maria Sawina in 19th century Finland.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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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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Kolmiapila
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-03-29
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Äl' yli päästä perhanaa
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Genres: Comedy History Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-02-02
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Sixtynine
Overview: Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She also finds out about his extra-marital affair with a female rally driver. In revenge, Tuula starts seeing her gynecologist Timo Paasi, a married man with six children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-10-03
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Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika
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Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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Tupla-Uuno
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro finds his doppelganger, Hugo, who happens to be a computer genius. Hugo helps Uuno save his father-in-law's business (and Uuno's inheritance) while Uuno helps Hugo win the heart of the love of his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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Uuno Turhapuron muisti palailee pätkittäin
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-09-30
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Havis Amanda: The Beauty of Helsinki
Overview: Documentary film about statue in Helsinki.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-12-10
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Make Like a Thief
Overview: Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1964-11-20
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Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-08-25
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Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
Overview: Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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Kahdeksas veljes
Overview: Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1971-02-26
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Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa
Overview: Justiina gives lessons to friends who are avoiding work and sends them to work. Pekka and Pätkä end up in a woodworking factory, where their job is to nail together the legs of a Christmas tree. The men think they will get rich this way, but through misadventures they end up in many different jobs and being chased by a crowd of admiring women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-12-02
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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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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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Hei kliffaa hei
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Millipilleri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1966-08-16
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Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
Overview: Pekka Puupää and Pätkä involuntarily end up in Suez as peacekeepers. After saving the Caliph's daughter Suleiman from kidnappers on two occasions, the Caliph magically reunites the friends with Justiina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-04-25
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Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina
Overview: At Justiina's insistence, Pekka and Pätkä are looking for work again and end up starting a detective agency. The first assignment takes the duo on a cruise on Lake Saimaa. Traveling on the same ship are representative Johannes Kulo and his daughter Maija, as well as the lumberjack Jussi, who gets caught up in the duo's misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-08-23
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Here, Beneath the North Star
Overview: Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-09-13
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Herra sotaministeri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-08-09
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Uuno Epsanjassa
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in the group, too, with his wife and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet. Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä
Overview: Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro
Overview: It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen buys a lottery ticket for Uuno, who agrees to deduct it from his debt – and the festive dinner is reduced to a can of milk and half a sausage. As it happens, Uuno becomes the lottery winner of 1.5 million marks, only to soon realize he doesn't own a single penny yet. Mister Tossavainen arrives and offers to finance Uuno before he actually gets the jackpot. Thus, Uuno gets to live a rich live on credit. He buys a raccoon fur, leopard swimming trunks and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes. Women begin to fancy Uuno and so does his father-in-law. As time goes by it is revealed, though, that Uuno is not actually a lottery winner, and so he has to escape the anger of others to Härski's car repair shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1976-08-27
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Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro
Overview: Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1975-08-29
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Häpy endkö? Eli kuinka Uuno Turhapuro sai niin kauniin ja rikkaan vaimon
Overview: Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1977-08-26
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Uuno Turhapuron aviokriisi
Overview: Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1981-10-16
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Uuno Turhapuro menettää muistinsa
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle
Overview: Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a new road. Tuura however is set on preventing this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-08-29
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Akseli and Elina
Overview: A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-12-04
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Linna
Overview: Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Josef seeks to make an appointment to see the ruler Herr Klamm inside his inaccessible abode, he becomes enmeshed in abuse from lowly villagers and bureaucrats alike. His endless false starts toward the castle's enigmatic interior are partly offset by a few sexual encounters but nothing alleviates his role as a victim of forces beyond his control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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