Kauko Helovirta
Also Known As: Kauko Hellström
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Juupajoki, Finland
Birthday: October 21, 1924
Deathday: September 13, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Vaarallista vapautta
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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Kesäyön lapset
Overview: Antti Kiikka has a one night thing with a local girl. Antti goes away and marries a girl from another village. Later that local girl delivers a baby, but she never tells who is the father. 20 years later daughter of Antti Kiikka fells in love with a guy without knowing that they quite likely are a brother and a sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-01-28
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Visa Mäkinen - My movie
Overview: Short documentary about finnish movie director Visa Mäkinen. There is photos from family album and short clips where Visa Mäkinen is working behind the camera. There is also clips from his most famous movies, and actors, colleague and a film critic telling small anecdotes about Visa Mäkinen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-02-03
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Mestari
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1992-03-06
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Vapaa duunari Ville-Kalle
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-02-24
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An Unknown Friend
Overview: The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off. A movie about insurance scams. Inspector Susikoski investigates.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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Aatamin puvussa… ja vähän Eevankin
Overview: A story of an escaped convict and some funny side stories during the Finnish summer, some stolen clothes and some summer romance thrown in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1971-10-08
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Villin Pohjolan kulta
Overview: A western set in the "Wild North".
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Ihana seikkailu
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-12-21
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Me
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-12-29
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Pikku suorasuu
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Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-03-09
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Turkasen tenava!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-04-12
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Johan nyt on markkinat!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1966-03-31
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Pilvilinna
Overview: Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school filled with angry radical teens who, typically for the era, consider the teacher-imposed discipline as another form of capitalist imperialism. Almost reluctantly Erik drifts together with Annika, a girl from a wealthy family, and starts experimenting with sex and marijuana. In the same nonchalant manner Erik gets involved in demonstrations and school politics which escalate into a violent school strike leading to police intervention and heavy sanctions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-11-26
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Meiltähän tämä käy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1973-10-26
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Kaikenlaisia karkulaisia
Overview: A loose comedy about escaped convicts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1981-08-20
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Härmästä poikia kymmenen
Overview: Based upon the popular folk song, the film tells the story of two men who want to test the new Sheriff, who has new policies to put in place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Natalia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1979-12-14
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Akaton mies
Overview: Farmer wants a wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1983-10-14
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Akallinen mies
Overview: The farmer now has found a wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-12-05
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Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Overview: Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-08-25
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Yön saalistajat
Overview: A small gang of criminals is planning to commit a gold heist not knowing that the new member of their gang is actually a police detective. But when his true identity is revealed to the gang they act like they wouldn't know about it and decide to use the detective to accomplish their plans about the heist.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1984-10-05
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The Year of the Hare
Overview: Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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Likainen puolitusina
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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The Boys
Overview: When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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Mitäs me sankarit
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1980-09-12
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The Parisian Tie
Overview: A TV movie based on the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1965-09-05
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Ruskan jälkeen
Overview: It follows a year in the life of a family in the North-Eastern part of Finland. From the gloomy days of winter to the Mid Summer wedding festivities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1979-08-31
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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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Viimeinen savotta
Overview: Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1977-11-04
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Sven Tuuva the Hero
Overview: For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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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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Kreivi
Overview: Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von Bagh asked him to play himself in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest moments, i.e. the most flamboyant stunts – and he agreed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1971-02-05
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Back to the USSR
Overview: Reima Elo ends up trying to commit suicide when he is abandoned by his wife Molla. He is also the village's laughing stock due to his communism. At a critical moment, a Lenin lookalike from Russia named Vladimir rescues him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1992-03-27
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For the Matches
Overview: In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
Genres: Comedy Adventure History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1980-10-12
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Piilopirtti
Overview: Two middle-aged friends make a wager: no drinking, smoking, overeating, gambling, cursing, armchair sports or women for a month.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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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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