Ekke Hämäläinen
Also Known As: Ekke Häme
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mikkeli, Finland
Birthday: February 14, 1922
Deathday: January 21, 1981
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Trust
Overview: Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and the Soviet Union. In December 1917, the Finnish delegation, composed of Chairman of the Senate Finance Department P.E. Svinhufvud (Vilho Siivola), Senator Carl Enckell (Yrjö Tähtelä) and State Secretary Gustaf Idman (Yrjö Paulo) arrive in St. Petersburg to meet V.I. Lenin (Kirill Lavrov) to gain recognition for the country's independence.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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Iloinen Linnanmäki
Overview: Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-11-04
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Tyttö tuli taloon
Overview: Hitchhiking girls Eila and Tilly end up at screenwriter Saku's summer house by mistake, thinking it's their cousin's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-02-03
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Herra sotaministeri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-08-09
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Kesäillan valssi
Overview: A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family Annina. Annina’s family doesn’t approve of the relationship, and the couple’s happiness is also threatened by Lauri’s worsening eye disease.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-10-05
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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 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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Evakko
Overview: Evakko is a portrayal of Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939/40 and the associated evacuations in different parts of the country. It tells the story of a Karelian family along with their whole village who were forced to leave their homes because of the war. The film has a surprisingly perky tone for the subject matter.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-08-30
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Kuollut mies kummittelee
Overview: Sarmo explores the mystery associated with the murder of a landowner and the tangle of crimes, threats, and conspiracies created by a letter he left behind. At the same time Sarmo helps the consuls of imaginary small states of South America in a difficult situation, and charms their daughters.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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Niskavuori taistelee
Overview: The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-11-15
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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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Kahden ladun poikki
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Autuas eversti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-09-05
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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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Särkelä itte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-10-31
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Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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Pikku suorasuu
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-03-09
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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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Rottasota
Overview: A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling establishment is also taken under the inspection. The daughter of the prime minister and her relation to the son of another minister of opposing party is especially under surveillance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-03-31
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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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Toukokuun taika
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-07-09
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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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Suomisen Olli yllättää
Overview: Olli Suominen goes through the usual troubles of a teenager. After being in the war he is trying to find his place in the society. And the relations with his family is in turmoil. He also finds the sweet life in restaurants more exhilarating than being in the school and reading books for the forthcoming student exams.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1945-08-26
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Sinut minä tahdon
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-11-17
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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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Jossain on railo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-12-23
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Säkkijärven polkka
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-09-09
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The Unknown Soldier
Overview: It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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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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Kuningas kulkureitten
Overview: The young Count Martin von Tandenskiöld who has returned from the war is forced into a battle with a Russian colonel after he harasses his bride Karin. Chased by the Cossacks Martin escapes and joins the old wanderer. On the way Martin encounters adventures and beautiful women.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-11-27
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Kielletty kirja
Overview: An author writes a historical novel about witch persecution and is accused of blasphemy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1965-08-20
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Onnelliset
Overview: Pianist Lauri Alango and his wife Annina's fortune is cracked when opera diva Delia Rosati attracts Lauri to accompany her on tour.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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