Veikko Sinisalo
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Riihimäki, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: September 30, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 16, 2003
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Kolmen kaupungin kasvot
Overview: A documentary about three of Finland's major cities: Turku, Tampere, and Helsinki, showcasing each city's history, geography, and culture.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-12-07
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Opri
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-12-25
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Pähkähullu Suomi
Overview: A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the film’s whole premise is about presenting Finland in hilarious fashion to foreigners and perhaps also making fun of some of the myths of Finnish culture for Finns themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1967-08-25
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Kuisma ja Helinä
Overview: In the 1880s, an unruly group of Cossacks stays in Sankola's house in Hämälä. Soon the group's leader Kuisma sets his sights on the house's adopted daughter Helina . Isma, the owner of the farm, has also fallen in love with Helina.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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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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Noin 7 veljestä
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-08-23
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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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The Life of Aleksis Kivi
Overview: Aleksis Kivi (1834-1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, "Seven Brothers/Seitsemän veljestä". Although Kivi was among the very earliest authors of prose and lyrics in Finnish language, he is still considered one of the greatest of them all.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-01-18
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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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Murheenkryynin poika
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-05-23
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Musta rakkaus
Overview: Marjatta lives in poor conditions in Tampere with her widowed father Arttu who works as a factory worker. Marjatta gets to know engineering student Pauli whose constantly worsening mental health problems and jealousy become a threat to Marjatta and her close circle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-04-05
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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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