Asko Sarkola

Asko Sarkola

Born: September 3, 1945
in Helsinki, Finland

Movies for Asko Sarkola...

The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Released: January 26, 2020
Type: Movie
This melancholy, dryly comedic Finnish-language film is the fourth of a five-part series on minority languages in Sweden.
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Fingerpori
Title: Fingerpori
Character: Lääkärin isä
Released: October 16, 2019
Type: Movie
Live action comedy about a fictional town and it's uncommon people, based on a comic strip 'Fingerpori', by Pertti Jarla.
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Maria's Paradise
Title: Maria's Paradise
Character: Priest
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: Movie
A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standing up against Maria, the woman who had saved her.
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The Human Part
Title: The Human Part
Character: Paavo Malmikunnas
Released: December 21, 2018
Type: Movie
Pekka Malmikunnas is a bankrupt, penniless man, who has convinced his family that he is still the CEO of a large IT company. Maintaining this façade in order to save face has become something of a full-time job for him. When Pekka’s parents unexpectedly come for a visit, he throws a lavish family dinner party in order to dispel any doubts. The soirée is a success until Pekka’s god-daughter gets run over by a car. The reckless driver becomes a mutual enemy for the family. The driver tries to atone for his actions, but the situation spirals out of control and Pekka attacks the man. Pekka realizes things have gone too far and decides to tell his family the truth. It does not hurt as much as Pekka thought, bringing the pieces of a once broken family back together.
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Home Sweet Home
Title: Home Sweet Home
Character: Lakimies
Released: October 21, 2011
Type: Movie
A story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones.
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Bad Family
Title: Bad Family
Character: Erik
Released: January 29, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.
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Blackout
Title: Blackout
Character: Sairaalan johtaja
Released: December 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Recovering from a nail gun shot to the head and 13 months of coma, doctor Pekka Valinta starts to unravel the mystery of his past, still suffering from total amnesia.
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1944 The Final Defence
Title: 1944 The Final Defence
Character: Marsalkka Mannerheim
Released: December 7, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Jurismia!
Character: Max Avaimenreikä
Released: January 8, 2002
Type: TV
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Tango Kabaree
Title: Tango Kabaree
Character: sokea pianonvirittäjä
Released: January 26, 2001
Type: Movie
A fictitious biography of Aira Samulin, the goddess of dance and importer of all the international dance crazes to Finland for some fifty years. The life story of this extravagant ever-teen, well beyond the usual retirement age, is told inside a fictitious plot about a Master of Ceremonies trying to persuade Aira to stage a show at his cabaret restaurant. Besides Aira Samulin, many other Finnish celebrities appear among the eccentric lineup auditioning for the show, playing more or less their fictionalised selves.
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The South
Title: The South
Character: Goldsmith
Released: December 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A comedy of crime, romance and deception played out against the background of a vacation under the Mediterranean sun.
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Jüri Rumm
Title: Jüri Rumm
Character: Prophet Järva Jaan
Released: May 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Jüri Rumm is a hot-tempered young peasant who is not afraid of either German barons or the Russian czar, barfights or disobedience to his master's orders. Mari, a gentle peasant girl, loves Jüri despite the fact that he is very popular among young women. Evelin is a quick-tempered baron's daughter who is used to get everything she wants, including a peasant boyfriend who considers himself a free man. Yet, the free man becomes an outlaw. Where will the runaway's love lead him?
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Anita
Title: Anita
Released: January 28, 1994
Type: Movie
Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with the male partner, who is mainly interested in the money.
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Kärlekens himmelska helvete
Title: Kärlekens himmelska helvete
Character: Eilert
Released: September 30, 1993
Type: Movie
A movie by Agneta Fagerström-Olsson.
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Stiller, Garbo & jag
Title: Stiller, Garbo & jag
Released: March 8, 1988
Type: Movie
One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.
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One Way Ticket
Title: One Way Ticket
Character: Pekka
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Johannes, an ex-con now working as a antiques dealer, is faced with a huge debt. He is put under pressure to pay and agrees to steal the Russian crown jewels on exhibition onboard a cruise ship.
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The Snow Queen
Title: The Snow Queen
Character: Kuninkaallisen saattueen jäsen
Released: December 19, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Korset
Character: Mick
Released: February 24, 1985
Type: TV
Birger and Eivor's daughter is buried after having died from a heroin overdose. Birger reacts violently. Soon known drug profiles are being found crucified on the doors to the institutions of society
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Sista leken
Title: Sista leken
Character: pingstpastorn
Released: March 18, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Taikapeli
Title: Taikapeli
Character: mäyräkoira Richardin ääni (voice)
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
A child acquires a magical video game that he uses to influence the world around him.
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Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
Title: Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
Character: Mies Ovela
Released: December 17, 1982
Type: Movie
The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the king becomes so sad that he wants his heart taken out of his chest. The kingdom is turned into an effective society based on reason, and there is no longer place for emotions. When she grows up, the princess tries to make her father see the importance of play and emotions.
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Zoombie
Title: Zoombie
Character: Ernst Georg Johansson
Released: August 31, 1982
Type: Movie
Holger gets called a zombie by his son because he seems so boring. After this he decides to quit working and focuses on his own happiness instead.
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Title: Zoombie
Character: Ernst Georg Johansson
Released: August 31, 1982
Type: TV
A different family comedy in three parts with the man in the center. A beautiful and instructive story about a small, fat, middle-aged agency manager with a high salary. We get to follow the bullied and exploited Holger in his difficult struggle from pupa to fly-ready butterfly.
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Ramses ja unet
Title: Ramses ja unet
Released: January 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Art documentary film.
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The Princess Lindagull
Title: The Princess Lindagull
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 28, 1981
Type: Movie
The Persian ruler Shah Nadir has only one daughter. Princess Lindagull is kind-hearted, but feels trapped in her palace life. The vengeful King Bom-Bali sends a Lappish witch disguised as a tiger to kidnap the beloved Princess.
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Kiljusen herrasväki
Title: Kiljusen herrasväki
Character: Hamletin esittäjä teatterissa
Released: November 20, 1981
Type: Movie
The Kiljunen family wins a holiday trip to Helsinki and the city will never be the same again.
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Höjdhoppar'n
Title: Höjdhoppar'n
Character: Erik 'Pinnen' Engman
Released: February 13, 1981
Type: Movie
35-year old Erik Engman, aka Pinnen, is the local fool. He picks up garbage and eats at the old people's home. One day he is asked to try the high-jump at the sport's field. He becomes fascinated and starts to train every day. Being fool-hardy, it doesn't take long before he is one of the best in the country and is asked to compete at the Stockholm Stadion.
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Flame Top
Title: Flame Top
Character: Writer Algot Lassila, aka Maiju Lassila, aka Irmari Rantamala
Released: October 17, 1980
Type: Movie
This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, working as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics, he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as a result, had to run back to Finland to hide. Once established in the comparative safety of a small village, he taught school in order to support his real vocation as a writer. Always living on the edge of poverty, if not square in the middle of it, Lassila continues to avoid public contact - he keeps his identity low-key and camoflages it by publishing under a variety of pseudonyms.
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Men Can't Be Raped
Title: Men Can't Be Raped
Character: Paperboy
Released: February 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.
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The Manila Rope
Title: The Manila Rope
Character: Sotapoliisi
Released: September 28, 1976
Type: Movie
Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.