Anneli Sauli

Anneli Sauli

Born: August 6, 1932
Died: March 15, 2022
in Pyhäjoki, Finland
Anneli Sauli (real name Anneli Savolainen) was a Finnish film actress. She appeared in 42 films since 1953.

As a film actress, Sauli's first role was as a young girl in the 1953 film 'We're Coming Back', and her breakthrough role to stardom came in the same year with the film 'The Milkmaid'. At that time she started using the stage name Anneli Sauli.

Movies for Anneli Sauli...

The Northern Star
Title: The Northern Star
Character: Self
Released: January 30, 2024
Type: Movie
Documentary film about a woman for whom the sex symbol stamp was a life-long curse - and a gift. A film in which the life story of one woman shows the social atmosphere as the decades change - values and prejudices at their most exposed. A film about Anneli Sauli, Finland's last film star.
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Siblings
Title: Siblings
Character: Sirkka-täti
Released: October 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Thirty-year-old twins Jenna and Joni find out that their father has a third child. Sister Jóna lives in Iceland. The siblings' meeting will change everyone's world, relationships and future. As each searches for meaning in their own lives, surging between one father, two homelands and three adult siblings, from reunification to separation and back again. Over the years, the siblings encounter themselves and each other, their similarities and differences.
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Title: Nurses
Character: Annaliisa Sievänen
Released: October 29, 2014
Type: TV
Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding and inspiring task of saving lives in a system that sometimes seems designed to do the opposite.
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Heartbeats
Title: Heartbeats
Character: Martta
Released: March 5, 2010
Type: Movie
Seven stories of women. Occasionally intersecting with each other in everyday situations. Parallel episodes of hope and abandonment, addiction and infidelity, but also friendship and trust.
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Stormheart
Title: Stormheart
Released: August 15, 2008
Type: Movie
The father of a Finnish family brings home a cute puppy, Stormheart. No one in the family knows anything about the dog. Little by little, the mystery of Stormheart unravels and the dog's new owners learn more about him. They find out that Stormheart's parents had served as guard dogs at the Berlin Wall. Pearl, the 7-year-old daughter of the Finnish family, takes the puppy under her wing and Stormheart, who grows up to the size of a bear, undertakes the task of removing all dangers, threats and obstacles from the path of Pearl.
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Ganes
Title: Ganes
Character: Sibyl
Released: September 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Remu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and violent death. After learning about rock music Remu learns to play drums and pushes himself into different bands. His first time in jails interrupts his music career, but after being released he starts his own band; Hurriganes.
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The Man Without a Past
Title: The Man Without a Past
Character: Bar Owner
Released: March 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
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Title: Hovimäki
Character: Maria Heikintytär
Released: March 10, 1999
Type: TV
The lives of the aristocratic Lindhof family and their servants from 1798 to 1907.
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Petos
Title: Petos
Character: Irja Haartman
Released: March 18, 1988
Type: Movie
The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go into hiding after the heist.
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Baltutlämningen
Title: Baltutlämningen
Released: September 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced into military service by the Nazis to fight against the Russians. Fearing reprisals from the Russians for fighting against them, they struggle desperately to stay in Sweden. After a hunger strike, suicides, and political intervention by Sweden fails to keep them from their former enemy, they are ultimately given over to the Russian authorities. The men are sentenced to hard labor in prison camps and later released, and Latvians are plunged into repression by the aftermath of the bloody war. The cycle of political unrest was still apparent more than 50 years after the conflict.
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Äl' yli päästä perhanaa
Title: Äl' yli päästä perhanaa
Character: maitotyttö
Released: February 2, 1968
Type: Movie
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Skin, Skin
Title: Skin, Skin
Character: Filmitähti
Released: October 21, 1966
Type: Movie
A movie about summer, youth, the difficulty of love, and a camping trip to the countryside by four young people from Helsinki.
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Onnenpeli
Title: Onnenpeli
Character: Leena
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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.
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The Racetrack Murders
Title: The Racetrack Murders
Character: Yo Ma
Released: November 7, 1964
Type: Movie
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.
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X-Paroni
Title: X-Paroni
Character: Maitotyttö
Released: October 30, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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Raportti eli balladi laivatytöistä
Title: Raportti eli balladi laivatytöistä
Character: Tuokko
Released: September 4, 1964
Type: Movie
A journalist is reporting on prostitutes active in the harbor area. He falls in love with the beautiful and different Vuokko.
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The Mysterious Magician
Title: The Mysterious Magician
Character: Jean Osbourne
Released: August 21, 1964
Type: Movie
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.
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Liebeshändel in Chioggia
Title: Liebeshändel in Chioggia
Character: Lucietta
Released: January 10, 1964
Type: Movie
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The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
Title: The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
Character: Wackel-Heidi
Released: September 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies.
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Dead Eyes of London
Title: Dead Eyes of London
Character: Fanny Weldon
Released: March 28, 1961
Type: Movie
A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.
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Weit ist der Weg
Title: Weit ist der Weg
Character: Manuela
Released: November 3, 1960
Type: Movie
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Lumisten metsien tyttö
Title: Lumisten metsien tyttö
Character: Tarja Mäenpää
Released: January 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki.
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Salem Aleikum
Title: Salem Aleikum
Character: Tachal
Released: December 3, 1959
Type: Movie
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Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Title: Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Character: Dolores Gonzales
Released: May 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
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Moonwolf
Title: Moonwolf
Character: Ara
Released: March 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned by the International Conference of Science, at Geneva, to study body function and survival in outer space. Holmes had discovered Wolf as a pup in the forest, only to lose him again in a flood, and is fearful of risking the dog's life again.
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The Restless Night
Title: The Restless Night
Character: Ljuba
Released: October 29, 1958
Type: Movie
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Autuas eversti
Title: Autuas eversti
Character: Senja
Released: September 5, 1958
Type: Movie
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Kahden ladun poikki
Title: Kahden ladun poikki
Character: Anna
Released: February 28, 1958
Type: Movie
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Miriam
Title: Miriam
Character: Miriam
Released: October 18, 1957
Type: Movie
After her aunts death, young Miriam gets a position with the Allnes family. They have a son, Hans. Miriam and Hans fall in love. But the Hans mother is jealous and disapprove.
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Ingen morgondag
Title: Ingen morgondag
Character: the artist's model
Released: October 16, 1957
Type: Movie
It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place. The Soviet occupation is strong, and on the Finnish side it is ordered to withdraw. But Captain Viktor Aaltonen does not listen to the order but wants to shorten a wounded companion's suffering. Aaltonen is taken to the Soviet prison camp, Vorkuta, where he will spend a decade.
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1918
Title: 1918
Character: Essi Söderman
Released: September 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
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Risti ja liekki
Title: Risti ja liekki
Character: Mirjam Raakelintytär
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery disguised as a choir boy, but is revealed by a monk Rasmus, who also desires her, and is put on trial.
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Jokin ihmisessä
Title: Jokin ihmisessä
Character: Osmi Järvelä
Released: April 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Pitch-noir melodrama about young Kauko's endless obsession and love-hate-relationship with Osmi, a girl he has known since childhood. Standing at her death bed, Kauko reminisces his years spent as a sailor, prisoner, smuggler, and a soldier in the Second World War, while Osmi manages to evolve from prostitution to a seemingly happy family life with someone else.
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Kaunis Kaarina
Title: Kaunis Kaarina
Character: Kaarina
Released: November 18, 1955
Type: Movie
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Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun
Title: Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun
Character: Eliina Kivistö
Released: May 27, 1955
Type: Movie
A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
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Kaksi vanhaa tukkijätkää
Title: Kaksi vanhaa tukkijätkää
Character: Elisabeth 'Liisa' Saarinen
Released: August 13, 1954
Type: Movie
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Pekka ja Pätkä lumimiehen jäljillä
Title: Pekka ja Pätkä lumimiehen jäljillä
Character: Katriina Sirkkunen
Released: July 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and takeJustiina along as a bait.
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Minä soitan sinulle illalla
Title: Minä soitan sinulle illalla
Character: Seija Vaara
Released: May 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Milkmaid
Title: The Milkmaid
Character: Hilja
Released: December 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday
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Me tulemme taas
Title: Me tulemme taas
Character: Katri Karkela
Released: July 24, 1953
Type: Movie
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.