Urho Kekkonen
Also Known As: UKK, Urkki, Urho Kaleva Kekkonen
Biography: Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986) was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving President of Finland from 1956 until 1982. He was the third and most recent president from the Agrarian League/Center Party. As head of state for nearly 26 years, he dominated Finnish politics, held a large amount of power, won his later elections with little opposition and has often been classified as an autocrat. Nevertheless, he remains a respected figure. Description above from the Wikipedia article Urho Kekkonen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pielavesi, Finland
Birthday: September 03, 1900
Deathday: August 31, 1986
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Gender: Male
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Parempaan asumiseen
Overview: Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1968-01-02
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December 6, 1960
Overview: Independence Day celebrations at the Finnish presidential palace December 6, 1960.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-12-31
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Moonshine Village
Overview: Moonshine Village is a story about producing moonshine in Kitee, Finland, and its effect on the village's social and economic development between 1960-70. For most families producing Moonshine was a prerequisite. Kitee became one of the most remarkable producers - both in good and bad. According to an 85-year old police officer, in the 1960s there were no villages that were not producing Moonshine. Yet, the city mayor of Kitee says that this time has been the most creative time in the town's history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-12-31
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Presidentin päivä
Overview: A documentary following a day in Urho Kekkonen's life as the president of Finland.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1977-02-16
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Näin syntyi Saimaan kanava
Overview: Finnish documentary film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-08-15
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Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti
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Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1967-10-17
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M/S Finlandia
Overview: Building and launching the cruise ship M/S Finlandia
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-23
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Disco and Atomic War
Overview: A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2009-04-10
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Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki
Overview: Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki, shot by Pirjo Honkasalo and Eero Salmenhaara, is a documentary on the capital of Finland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-12-03
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State Funeral
Overview: The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in the USSR on March 5 - 9, 1953, when the country mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-10-22
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Rogue Reporters
Overview: The documentary tells the story of the political scandal caused by the book 'The Spoils of Tamminiemi' from the perspective of the journalists who wrote it. The time of the book's publication was the worst time of the Finlandization, Soviet spies worked behind the scenes and the power struggle was heating up, who would be successor of the President Kekkonen? The authors of the book appeared under pseudonyms, but the subjects of the writings were named, and it revealed everything that had been going on behind the scenes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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