Pehr-Olof Sirén

Pehr-Olof Sirén

Born: January 10, 1923
Died: November 24, 1986
in Porvoo, Finland

Movies for Pehr-Olof Sirén...

Butterfly's Dream
Title: Butterfly's Dream
Character: Sandell
Released: January 10, 1986
Type: Movie
A young woman finds a hidden bit of film about her mother's youth, a film which somehow seems linked to her own life.
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The Worthless
Title: The Worthless
Character: Art Buyer
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit.
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Martinin rikos
Title: Martinin rikos
Character: Martin
Released: December 5, 1980
Type: Movie
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Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
Title: Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self wants her to marry another man than his sober personality wants.
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Onnellinen mies
Title: Onnellinen mies
Character: Rovasti Roivas
Released: May 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge construction site, but he quickly finds himself clashing against the local decision-makers. The bridge engineer is also popular with the ladies and, being a man of energy, he manages to take care of several of his admirers at once.
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Landet som icke är
Title: Landet som icke är
Released: December 27, 1977
Type: Movie
A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a large weight from their shoulders.
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Title: Isännät ja isäntien varjot
Character: Insinööri
Released: December 29, 1976
Type: TV
Time of depression in the 1930s. "Poverty and abundant wealth have simultaneously filled the earth's circle. The peasant's cornerstones are moving." Iso Herneinen's mistress is dead and grief lives in Jopi's heart. Jopi's grown-up boys are hardly happy. The eldest boy fell in love with the house maid. The middle one is, according to Jopi, a strange modern product. The youngest does not enjoy working or working at home. The three-part TV series tells about the peasant's collapse in years of depression.
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Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro
Title: Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro
Character: Elisabethin isä
Released: August 29, 1975
Type: Movie
Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany.
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Kun lesket lempivät
Title: Kun lesket lempivät
Character: Varis
Released: January 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Simo Kämäräinen, a widowed cottage owner, and his chairman leave with marriage intentions for Juva. A play based on Maiju Lassila's novel.
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Kahdeksas veljes
Title: Kahdeksas veljes
Character: board member at Mainostoimisto Universal
Released: February 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.
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The Kremlin Letter
Title: The Kremlin Letter
Character: Receptionist
Released: February 1, 1970
Type: Movie
When an unauthorized letter is sent to Moscow alleging the U.S. government's willingness to help Russia attack China, former naval officer Charles Rone and his team are sent to retrieve it. They go undercover, successfully reaching out to Erika Kosnov, the wife of a former agent, now married to the head of Russia's secret police. Their plans are interrupted, however, when their Moscow hideout is raided by a cunning politician.
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Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
Title: Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
Character: Heikki Hämäläinen (uncredited)
Released: September 12, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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Miljoonaliiga
Title: Miljoonaliiga
Character: Kalle
Released: November 15, 1968
Type: Movie
Reiska who has moved to Helsinki from the country starts working as an errand boy in Sweden and Denmark for Lehto, a leader of a criminal league. Reiska's friend from school, Lea, who dreams of being a singer, drifts under Lehto's influence as well.
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Rottasota
Title: Rottasota
Character: pääministeri Kannisto
Released: March 31, 1968
Type: Movie
A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling establishment is also taken under the inspection. The daughter of the prime minister and her relation to the son of another minister of opposing party is especially under surveillance.
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Inför havets anlete
Title: Inför havets anlete
Character: Bonden
Released: December 5, 1967
Type: Movie
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Kielletty kirja
Title: Kielletty kirja
Released: August 20, 1965
Type: Movie
An author writes a historical novel about witch persecution and is accused of blasphemy.
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Title: Meidän Herramme muurahaisia
Character: poliisimestari
Released: November 9, 1964
Type: TV
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Meren juhlat
Title: Meren juhlat
Character: Olle
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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Commando Assault
Title: Commando Assault
Character: Raakku
Released: February 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.
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Yksityisalue
Title: Yksityisalue
Character: Mäkelä
Released: October 5, 1962
Type: Movie
An apparent suicide of a successful architect prompts an investigation into his death. A young man investigating can't believe that his well-respected boss would take his own life until he discovers that the man had a loveless marriage, another woman on the side, and a general feeling of malaise – a condition caused by the fact that he very nearly sold himself out to the lure of big money.
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Oksat pois…
Title: Oksat pois…
Released: October 27, 1961
Type: Movie
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Gas, Inspector Palmu!
Title: Gas, Inspector Palmu!
Character: Doctor
Released: September 15, 1961
Type: Movie
A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so Palmu, Kokki and Virta begin the investigation: who had come to the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap while Mrs. Skrof was asleep?
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Opettajatar seikkailee
Title: Opettajatar seikkailee
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1960
Type: Movie
An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagrin. She is intent on keeping the painting out of circulation by stealing it from an art gallery, but the aftermath turns out to be more complex than she anticipated, leading Leena to become involved in various misunderstandings featuring a gang of criminals, inept cops and false murder charges among other things.
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Patarouva
Title: Patarouva
Character: tuomari Kaius Kannisto
Released: September 25, 1959
Type: Movie
Kaius Kannisto a bachelor who has experienced hard on the love front, goes through his relationships with his four former female friends, the four queens of the deck of cards.
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Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Title: Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Character: (uncredited)
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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Paksunahka
Title: Paksunahka
Character: Komisario
Released: April 4, 1958
Type: Movie
A man dreaming of becoming a private detective gets suck into an investigation of a crime involving the theft of a secret chemical formula.
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Mä oksalla ylimmällä
Title: Mä oksalla ylimmällä
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1954
Type: Movie
A fictional love story between famous composer Gabriel Linsén and opera singer Maria Sawina in 19th century Finland.