Unto Salminen
Also Known As: Unto Emil Kalervo Salminen
Biography: Unto Emil Kalervo Salminen (March 23, 1910 Helsinki - August 16, 1972 Helsinki) was a Finnish actor. The family of Unto Salminen is an actress. Salminen was married to actor Kyllikki Väre, who died in 1951. Salminen is known for his role as Eskimo in Nummisuutari, among others. He starred in the Finnish National Theater in 1931–1951, and after that he played for example. In intimate theater and radio theater. In his youth, Salminen competed in a rush. He was elected to the Turin European Championships in 1934, but because of his speed, he did not participate in the races. From Wikipedia (fi), the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 23, 1910
Deathday: August 16, 1972
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Gender: Male
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Pimeänpirtin hävitys
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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Suopursu kukkii
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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Tuulinen päivä
Overview: The strange, disjointed love story in the existentialist film Windy Day transported the young lovers to an island off the town of Kotka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-11-09
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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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The Scarlet Dove
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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Katupeilin takana
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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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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"Minä elän"
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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Sadan miekan mies
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Genres: Comedy Adventure History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-08-31
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Tuomari Martta
Overview: Martha's problem is balancing work and family. According to her husband Juho and father-in-law Kalle, the mother's place is at home with the child and not at work. Only her mother-in-law Ilona encourages Martta to advance in her career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-03-20
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Kyläraittien kuningas
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-11-03
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Taistelu Heikkilän talosta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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Kiusaus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-03-25
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Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu
Overview: A poet finds a new muse in young woman.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-10-06
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Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina
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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Suomisen Ollin tempaus
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Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-11-29
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Suomisen taiteilijat
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Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1943-12-25
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Sven Tuuva the Hero
Overview: For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-12-25
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Professori Masa
Overview: A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Pontevat pommaripojat
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-12-23
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Miljoonavaillinki
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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Meidän poikamme merellä
Overview: After naval sergeant Pekka Kuusisto runs into his old crush, nurse Leila, she stays on his mind as he embarks on a submarine combat exercise.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1933-02-12
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Elokuva jalostavasta rakkaudesta
Overview: Based on Edvard Radzinsky's play, the story critically examines the difficulties of a Soviet film production.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1967-09-06
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Butterfly's Dream
Overview: A young woman finds a hidden bit of film about her mother's youth, a film which somehow seems linked to her own life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-01-10
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Seitsemän veljestä
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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Pikajuna pohjoiseen
Overview: The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North. One tragedy after the other appears.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-06-01
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Time of Roses
Overview: In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-02-07
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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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Suomisen perhe
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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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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Lapatossu ja Vinski olympia-kuumeessa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-09-03
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Nainen on valttia
Overview: A famous operette star Kirsti Kalpa escapes her busy and selfish fiance and hides as maid to house of 3 bachelors ( professor, composer and butler) , who basically hate women.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1944-08-13
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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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Helmikuun manifesti
Overview: February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-02-19
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Hetkiä yössä
Overview: Experimental Finnish movie from 1961, about one night in the city. In 1960, the director Eino Ruutsalo spoke of the movie with these words: "The camera moves around the night - loose images are created - they create memories, consortia in us, or do not create. Man as such is interesting. Woman for a man. Man for a woman. There is no final destiny - there are only events. Different people touch each other - nothing is too solid and not ready. Everything hovers and gets new shapes".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-08-25
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Lakeuksien lukko
Overview: Set in rural Ostrobothnia in 1859, Tuomas Kantola, a farmer, is the only peasant in the village who does not sell his land to Lohikoski's boss Adler, and even starts to annoy him by building a dam to defy the project to drain Lohikoski's lands. During the summer, Harri , a student, and Kantola's daughter Annika fall in love, which is not accepted by either of their fathers or Annika's ex-fiancé Tuomas.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-01-26
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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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Yövartija vain…
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Uuteen elämään
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1942-09-06
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Ruusu ja kulkuri
Overview: The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an international singing star, Aappo never forgets his first love Katri, who faithfully waits in Liminga for his return.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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Nummisuutarit
Overview: In the comedy set in Etelä-Hämee in the middle of the 19th century, Esko, the son of a cobbler, goes with the speaker Mikko Vilkastu to find a bride for himself from Karri's adopted daughter, Crete. However, not everything goes according to plan.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-12-25
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Ne 45000
Overview: Medical student Antti Ahonen, who is fighting tuberculosis, finds himself in the middle of a love triangle with his friend Heikki Huhtamäki and his crush Helmi Hirvinen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1933-11-12
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Takki ja liivit pois!
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1939-04-30
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Kuriton sukupolvi
Overview: Immersed in his research work, professor Reinhold Varavaara realizes that he has neglected his children's upbringing. He falls in love with his son Pelle's girlfriend Marja and becomes a laughing stock in the eyes of his family. The offended father sets out to discipline his ill-behaved children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1937-11-28
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Olenko minä tullut haaremiin
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1938-02-26
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Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Overview: Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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