Saara Pakkasvirta
Also Known As: Saara Pulkkinen
Biography: Saara Pakkasvirta is a Finnish actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Viipuri, Finland
Birthday: July 23, 1938
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Meren juhlat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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The Snow Queen
Overview: A Finnish live action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The tale centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Kerttu.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1986-12-19
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Producing Adults
Overview: Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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I Hired Two Contract Cleaners
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-11-24
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When the Heavens Fall…
Overview: A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1972-02-27
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Song of the Gallows
Overview: The Song of the Gallows is based on a medieval, seventeenth-century story about a magic violin that saves the life of a Roma man from the gallows. The Polish princess Katarina Jagellonica arrives in Finland in order to get married to Duke Juhana; after listening to the Romani musician playing his instrument she agrees to his request that all the gallows should be torn down in the country to save the Roma from execution.
Genres: Drama Animation History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2002-12-06
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Romany Mirror
Overview: Mire bala kale hin, (which means the girl with the long black hair in Romanes) was the first TV programme ever produced as a childrens program about the Roma minority in Czech Republic. It is a co-production between Finnish/ Czech/Netherlands television. The story is about a Roma girl, who is told Roma stories, legends, dreams, fairy-tales and true stories. Beside the Czech and Finnish also an english version had been produced.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2001-10-23
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Voi veljet, mikä päivä!
Overview: Director Emil Rantamo goes with his family to the country for the summer. The family's son Fritsu gets engaged to Tipuli Niemi. Sausage maker Niemi thinks his daughter is engaged to the manager Rantamo himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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Bubble
Overview: 16-year-old Eveliina accidentally sees her mother kissing another woman. Fearing her parents' divorce, she decides to intervene, by any means and without permission. In her opinion, the best way to destroy her mother's extramarital affair and bring her parents back together is a teenage daughter in trouble. Thus, Eveliina gets herself in trouble as many ways as she can. Along the way, the lives of a few others are at stake. Still, Eveliina guards her plan to the last, and the adults have their own secret ways of survival - until the bubble bursts.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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Frozen Land
Overview: When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2005-01-14
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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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Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika
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Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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Muurahaispolku
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1970-02-27
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Rikos & rakkaus
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1999-02-05
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Christmas Story
Overview: Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids Nikolas to continue making presents for Christmas. Gradually, however, Nikolas wins Iisakki's trust. Together they begin to look after the Christmas traditional that Nikolas has begun. When the aged Iisakki has to leave Nikolas and move away, the tradition of Christmas presents is once again at risk. Thankfully, Nikolas comes up with a solution that brings children joy every Christmas, even continuing to today.
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Ladies of Steel
Overview: Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and Raili join her on a trip to the Koli National Park. Will Inkeri find in her that free young woman who desired a feminist revolution in the 70s?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2020-01-03
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Ihmemies
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Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1979-11-02
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Land of Love
Overview: A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2003-12-19
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A Clear Winter's Day
Overview: An old man gets lost looking for a post office. Every time he turns around a street corner, he ends up in the same small café. The café owner builds an ice sculpture of the woman he admires.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1997-12-25
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Falling Angels
Overview: The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2008-12-05
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