Jaakko Pakkasvirta
Also Known As: Jarkko Virta, Pierre Froid, B. Kivi
Biography: Jaakko Juhani Pakkasvirta (28 November 1934 – 23 March 2018) was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 30 films between 1958 and 2000. His 1975 film Home for Christmas was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1978 film Poet and Muse was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Simpele, Finland
Birthday: November 28, 1934
Deathday: March 23, 2018
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Gender: Male
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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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Mies tältä tähdeltä
Overview: Office clerk Eero Koskinen prefers to spend his nights drinking and reminiscing the war with his friends, instead of taking care of his wife and two children. A two-week drinking spree gets him fired, and a new job is not easy to find because of his reputation. He goes to a rehab centre in the countryside for a couple of weeks, but with no permanent result. Meanwhile, his wife has to get a job and is employed by her old sweetheart, now a recently divorced successful businessman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-10-31
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X-Paroni
Overview: Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1964-10-30
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Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-04-25
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Sotapojan heilat
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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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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Valkoinen kääpiö
Overview: The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-02-14
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Onnenpeli
Overview: Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight attendant girlfriend Leena.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Poet and Muse
Overview: Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz and later muse, poetess L. Onerva. His friends include equally central figures of the Finnish cultural scene in the early 1900s, such as painters Halonen and Gallén-Kallela, and composer Sibelius.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-10-13
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Maaseudun tulevaisuus?
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Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-02-28
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Kesäkapina
Overview: Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-01-23
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Hopeaa rajan takaa
Overview: In the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist and Anttala decide to seek family silver hidden under Wist's home behind the border line of the truce.
Genres: Adventure War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-09-20
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Town Is Our Future
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1967-01-18
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Darling
Overview: Tells the story of a young couple using flashbacks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-08-18
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Meren juhlat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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Linna
Overview: Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Josef seeks to make an appointment to see the ruler Herr Klamm inside his inaccessible abode, he becomes enmeshed in abuse from lowly villagers and bureaucrats alike. His endless false starts toward the castle's enigmatic interior are partly offset by a few sexual encounters but nothing alleviates his role as a victim of forces beyond his control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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