Also Known As: V-V Salminen
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Turku, Finland
Birthday: August 23, 1937
Deathday: January 16, 2006
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Gender: Male
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1948-09-09
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Overview: Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the help of her mother. Ruth the girlfriend of Sinikka's brother happens to witness the escape, which puts them all in danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-11-16
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Overview: Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the ship, they get into the wrong track and come across prostitution and drug crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-11-18
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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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Overview: A story about the passengers of the inland waterway Heinävesi. Salli, the daughter of the captain, dreams of an acting career and joins a performance by a theater company traveling on a ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-09-16
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-11-14
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Overview: Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1969-12-25
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1974-08-30
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Overview: Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends about Usko (Tommi Rinne) and Toivo (Leif Wager), both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-05-13
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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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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-02-12
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-12-25
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-01-21
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-09-09
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Overview: A military farce from a rookie with over a hundred female pen pals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-08-15
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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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Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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Overview: A female fashion model Anni Stark takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lapland for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of the residents begins to harass Anni, who is left alone in the wilderness with only her dog to protect her. Too bad for her that her dog turns out to have divided loyalties.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-11-04
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Overview: A group of men arriving to their military refresher training are tasked with finding a lost football bomb meant for a film shoot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-08-27
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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Overview: Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-10-07
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Overview: Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-16
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Overview: Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in the group, too, with his wife and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet. Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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Overview: Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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Overview: Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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Overview: Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1981-10-16
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Overview: Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-09-30
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Overview: Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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Overview: Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-04-07
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Overview: A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to moralistic criticism, even though he is in fact only in love with the tailor's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-02-14
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Overview: Bored with family life the husband Matti goes on a drunken journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1964-03-27
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