Kalevi Kahra
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Biography: Kalevi Kahra was a Finnish actor with a career that spanned over four decades and included winning the Jussi Award for Best Actor in 1968 for his most highly-regarded performance as the character Adolf Halme in Täällä Pohjantähden alla (English: Here, Beneath the North Star). He served as Chairman of the Finnish Exhibition Union, the country's oldest and largest performing arts trade union, for over two decades, beginning in 1975. While most frequently appearing in comedic works, his biggest successes were in dramatic productions.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Johannes, Viipuri, Finland [now Sovetsky, Leningrad Oblast, Russia]
Birthday: October 04, 1927
Deathday: May 23, 1998
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
Overview: Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1991-10-18
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Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava
Overview: New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-08-15
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Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni
Overview: Relations between Sweden and Finland come to near breaking point. When further negotiations led by President Mara fail, Sergeant Körmy interferes in the course of events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät
Overview: The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons launch equipment and codes to neutral Finland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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Sista leken
Overview: In this somber, psychological drama about the conflict between a man's innermost feelings and a society that puts these feelings in a strait jacket, the mood is ruminative and depressing throughout. Alone, Viktor (Sven Wolter) heads off for his usual summer vacation to some islands where he can ostensibly look for antiques for his wife's shop in Stockholm. His marriage is a failure or worse -- he raped his wife before he left home, and he is obsessed by erotic imaginings. Once on the islands, he makes friends with a little girl whose mother is mentally disturbed and is kept by her husband in a locked room. The islanders are as tight-lipped as Viktor, and any communication is stiff and artificial. Viktor's own alienation begins to slip as he takes surprising, violent action to turn around the imprisoned mother's life -- but it does not work, nothing seems to work -- and his last actions indicate that he may not be willing to simply give up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-03-18
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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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Me tulemme taas
Overview: The film tells the story of the romance between the timber rafters and widow Kaisa, her daughter Satu and Katri from Karkela. Problems are caused by the men in the village, especially the Master of Karkela, who has his own plans for widow's land.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-07-24
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Se alkoi sateessa
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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Naiset, jotka minulle annoit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-08-17
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Plainlands
Overview: Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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Vieras
Overview: A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-09-24
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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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Menestyksen maku
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-02-04
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Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan
Overview: A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Lain ulkopuolella
Overview: On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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Hei kliffaa hei
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Pedon merkki
Overview: Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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Elämä lyhyt, Rytkönen pitkä
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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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 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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The Winter War
Overview: Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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The Wrestler
Overview: An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1985-09-26
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Hiekkakuningas
Overview: A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Metsolat - Muistojen joulu
Overview: Antti and Annikki have secretly decided to spend Christmas in Leppävaara. The family's entrepreneurial son Erkki has gone to Moscow with his yarn Jaakko Järvenheimo to sell tampers and ski packages to the Russians. The Metsola family (except for Erkki, Jaakko and Heikki's family) gather once again in Leppävaara to celebrate the Christmas of memories.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-24
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