Oiva Sala
Also Known As: Oiva Salin
Biography: Oiva Sala was a Finnish actor who had numerous minor roles during his career. He was awarded with the Pro Finlandia medal in 1958.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: October 31, 1900
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 07, 1980
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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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Amor hoi!
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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Maailman kaunein tyttö
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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Totuus on armoton
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-03-14
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Nuoruus vauhdissa
Overview: Laila and Lasse are two teenagers dreaming about careers as singers. Lasse's brother Rami dreams about motorbike racing and dates a pretty blond Anjukka. Her father works in the hot new field of TV advertising, which might be a good route to stardom for Laila and Lasse. But then Anjukka sets her eyes on Lasse and Rami sets his on Laila, and many a popular hit melody is sung in between.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-02-17
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Minä ja mieheni morsian
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-03-24
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Katarina kaunis leski
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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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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Kersantilleko Emma nauroi?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-11-02
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Sadan miekan mies
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Genres: Comedy Adventure History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-08-31
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Kultainen vasikka
Overview: Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-11-24
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Hän tuli ikkunasta
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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Helunan häämatka
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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Radio tulee hulluksi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Rikollinen nainen
Overview: Eeva Isokari flees her home from the jealousy of her husband, judge Lauri. The next day, a body is found on the railway tracks. Lauri thinks his wife is dead. The woman, who has lost her memory, has ended up in a prison run by her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Niskavuoren Heta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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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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Viisi vekkulia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-05-18
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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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Rakkaus on nopeampi Piiroisen pässiäkin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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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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Yhden yön hinta
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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Pieni luutatyttö
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-10-17
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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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Commando Assault
Overview: Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.
Genres: War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-02-21
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Siltalan pehtoori
Overview: The new steward of Siltala ends up falling in love with the beautiful widow of the house. Their romance is endangered by misunderstandings and the fact that the estate of Siltala is swimming in debt. And the new steward isn't quite what he seems to be.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-11-06
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Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla
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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Silmät hämärässä
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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Lännen lokarin veli
Overview: Coal miner Esaias Coolman returns to Finland from his working years in America.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-04-25
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The Milkmaid
Overview: Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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Gas, Inspector Palmu!
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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