Matti Ranin
Also Known As: Korpraali Ranin, Матти Ранин
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tampere, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: November 21, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 24, 2013
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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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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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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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Ruma Elsa
Overview: The boyish, temperamental chemistry student Elsa Kassel disapproves of her mother and sisters running after men, but when she hears that she's referred to as "ugly Elsa", she takes on a transformation. The new, charming Elsa tests her attractiveness on men and causes confusion all the way to her mother's new groom, Professor Harjula.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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Koskenkylän laulu
Overview: Reino Köyri the son of a wealthy house falls off a horse and ends up at Liuhala's cottage to be treated by Venla. There he falls in love with the daughter of the house Anna. The couple’s cohabitation is hampered by previous commitments and ambiguities in kinship.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1947-09-25
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…ja Helena soittaa
Overview: Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the Helena series. When the Winter War breaks out, Arttu (Jussi Jurkka), the son of Helena (Irma Seikkula) and Jari Junkkeri (Erkki Viljos), go to the front. Arttu proposes to his girlfriend Elina (Leena Häkinen), but the world events come in between. When he is not heard of at the end of the war, the relatives begin to believe that Arttu is dead - everybody else but not Helena.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-12-30
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Kanavan laidalla
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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Oi, muistatkos…
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-10-29
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Eetu ja Konna
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Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2011-02-18
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Quest for a Heart
Overview: When the most mischievous resident of Rolli Village befriends a beautiful elf girl, the hopelessly mismatched pair embarks on a magical adventure to save the Forest of Elves by traveling to the Land of Winter and recovering the mythical magical heart in this animated tale of wonder for the entire family.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-12-14
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Inspector Palmu's Error
Overview: A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-09-09
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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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Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-05-16
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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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Isäpappa ja keltanokka
Overview: A widower takes care of his three children who are trying to find him a new wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-03-23
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Gas, Inspector Palmu!
Overview: A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so Palmu, Kokki and Virta begin the investigation: who had come to the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap while Mrs. Skrof was asleep?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-09-15
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Yhden yön hinta
Overview: The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen
Overview: Schoolboy Klaus is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and difficulties he keeps up his studies under the supervision of the grim Master Kahari.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-05-22
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Kasarmin tytär
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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Kunnioittaen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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Pinsiön parooni
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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Minkkiturkki
Overview: A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-02-03
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Oppenheimerin tapaus
Overview: A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1967-10-11
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Kolmiapila
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-03-29
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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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Hilmanpäivät
Overview: The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but due to the confusion, extinguishing the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-10-08
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Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu
Overview: A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for the police.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-09-07
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Tyttö kuunsillalta
Overview: A widow and a husband tired of a loveless marriage rekindle the attraction they shared in their youth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-10-30
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Lännen lokarin veli
Overview: Coal miner Esaias Coolman returns to Finland from his working years in America.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-04-25
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Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin
Overview: A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-06-29
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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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Kuriton sukupolvi
Overview: Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his study) and back to real life. He can hardly recognize his rebellious teenage kids and materialistic wife who hardly seem to notice his existence. The only person who is interested in the professor's work is Marja, his son's girlfriend and freshman at the university. An innocent infatuation flares up between the old man and the young girl, while the professor's family is only interested in the prize money awarded to the professor by an international jury for his academic achievements.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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Turkasen tenava!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-04-12
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Laivan kannella
Overview: Young sailor Arvi falls in love with a dance girl Kerttu in a Spanish tavern, who says that she is half-Finnish and wants to go find her real father.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-11-26
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In the Year 2000
Overview: A 1950 Finnish short film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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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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Anu ja Mikko
Overview: The film tells the story of an orphaned Anu and carpenter Mikko trying to make a living in a small Karelian village in the early 1930s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1956-11-30
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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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