Anja Pohjola
Also Known As: Anja Pohjola-Sirén
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Loimaa, Finland
Birthday: March 14, 1931
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Lumikit
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-08-20
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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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The Land of Happiness
Overview: Nostalgic comedy set in the early 1960s, when the tango was all the rage. The "prodigal son" Tenho returns from his unlucky adventures in the city back to his parents' farm. Tenho becomes the laughing stock of local men until he scores the hottest girl in the village. A hot romance flares up between Tenho and the sensuous milkmaid Virva, accompanied by popular Finnish tango tunes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1993-04-30
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Kun lesket lempivät
Overview: Simo Kämäräinen, a widowed cottage owner, and his chairman leave with marriage intentions for Juva. A play based on Maiju Lassila's novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1974-01-09
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Aliisa
Overview: A finnish TV-movie by Jukka Sipilä
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-11-18
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Martinin rikos
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1980-12-05
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The Dinosaur
Overview: Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur looks at the relentless, often disturbing directing techniques behind Mollberg’s art and success.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-03-10
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Raamit ränniin
Overview: A boy dreams to become like his ski jumping idol Jari Puikkonen. However, his parents are worried because he neglects the school. One day while going on practice, he rescues a baby left in a car with no parking brake hooked back up. The baby happens to be Puikkonen's son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Rautatie
Overview: Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1973-12-30
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On the Road to Emmaus
Overview: A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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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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Kymmenen riivinrautaa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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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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The Prodigal Son
Overview: Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1992-10-30
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Pohjantähti
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1973-02-09
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Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
Overview: A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-09-12
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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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Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life
Overview: Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Jill, Joy and the Sleeping Clock
Overview: Jill and Joy receive a mission from their neighbors Tingelstein and Tangelstein: the ladies send the girls to look after their absentminded inventor brother Gadgetus. Jill and Joy get to know the wonders of Gadgetus’s farm, but everything is at risk of being destroyed when Samuel Shortcut arrives on his bulldozer, ready to destroy everything so that a new highway can be built in the area. Jill and Joy save the farm with the help of a device invented by Gadgetus, but before that they have to get to know the world of dreams and find help from there. Armstrong, a miniature pig, also takes part in the adventure and helps Jill and Joy, along with the other people living in Rose Alley.
Genres: Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2018-12-25
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Harbour Brothers
Overview: Finland in the 50s saw a time where boats from all over the world docked in the harbor city of Kotka. In addition to transporting goods, the sailors brought with them another import: jazz, swing and blues. A tale of music-loving, fearless and passionate young men decide to open Fennia, a jazz bar. Soon Fennia achieves legendary status and the men; the Harbour Brothers, play their music and hold court like emperors.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Hiekkakuningas
Overview: A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Juhannushäät
Overview: The young non-commissioned officer Voitto travels with his bride Marjata to spend a wedding in his childhood home in Lapland. On the wedding night, both have to confront their past.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1979-10-12
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Little Sister
Overview: Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryman bound to be released from service. In the same time, she dates old school friend Eero who even goes AWOL to be near her. As the war continues, Katri has to make difficult decisions about her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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