Christian Sandström
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vaasa, Finland
Birthday: October 29, 1972
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Gender: Male
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Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
Overview: Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Where Once We Walked
Overview: The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2011-10-28
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The Secret
Overview: Four tourists travel to to the Swedish island of Gotland in the month of September hoping for the time of their lives. They soon discover however that in the time of year of their choosing for the vacation, is a time of year where Swedes are anywhere but on the island. The four tourists soon discover that the few inhabitants of the island are carrying a secret; a secret that is about to make the four wish they had never come to Sweden.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-05-11
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1944 The Final Defence
Overview: The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries. This film depicts the true events through five separate stories.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-12-07
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The Prince of Soap
Overview: Screenwriter Ilona falls in love with Kalle, the main star of the series, and mixes fact and fiction when she starts writing a romance between herself and the star. Jealous producer Raakel does everything she can to destroy Ilona's plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2006-02-10
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Messenger in the Cradle
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Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-10-29
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Bordertown: The Mural Murders
Overview: A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2021-10-27
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Rage: Midsummer's Eve
Overview: American and British friends studying in Finland decide to take up an offer to travel to the Arctic Circle and experience the mysterious, pagan celebration of Midsummer's Eve.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-06
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Tom of Finland
Overview: Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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Farewell
Overview: An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-23
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Rendel: Cycle of Revenge
Overview: When ‘Smiley’ takes over the Vala Drug Corporation, a masked vigilante, Rendel, will avenge the murder of his family.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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Sibelius
Overview: Director Timo Koivusalo point of view about life of classical music composer Jean Sibelius, who is a national composer of Finland.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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Unexpected Journey
Overview: Lasse is an old racist who has lives in an apartment block filled with a selection of refugees and immigrants. Kamal is a 16-year old boy who's fed up in his life in Finland, and dreams of moving to Nairobi to live with his father. Only problem is that he doesn't have the money to buy the ticket.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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The Handcuff King
Overview: It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-10-04
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