Sampo Sarkola

Sampo Sarkola

Born: January 31, 1978
Sampo Sarkola (born January 31, 1978) is a Finnish actor.

He graduated from the Swedish language course at the Helsinki Theater Academy. From 2004 to 2016, he was an actor in the Swedish-language Lilla Teatern of the Helsinki City Theatre.

In 2011, he won the Jussi Award as the best supporting actor (for his role in the film "Kohtaamisia").

Movies for Sampo Sarkola...

Snot and Splash
Title: Snot and Splash
Released: January 19, 2024
Type: Movie
Snot and Splash travel to their grandmother's house in the small town of Mouthwash for a winter holiday. Once there, they discover that everything is a little off in what used to be a very ordinary town. The strangest thing is that holes are disappearing from the town. Snot and Splash set out to investigate and manage to get on the trail of a local dentist, Migrén Junior. However, the investigation is in danger of failing when messy Snot and diligent Splash get into an argument with each other. How can Mouthwash be restored and the holes put back in place if the boys can't work together? The only way to restore the world is for the brothers to work together.
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Lapland Odyssey 4
Title: Lapland Odyssey 4
Character: Eläinlääkäri
Released: December 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle.
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Hyväveli
Title: Hyväveli
Character: Jokisalo
Released: December 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Patrolman Loyan tries to find his place in the new police department while keeping his friend Warsame, newly released from prison, on the right track. Loyan's ambition is to get into detective training, but his supervisor Jokisalo thinks he'd be better off patrolling the familiar neighbourhoods with his partner Johanna. The patrol gets down to business when they start investigating what looks like a suicide. Antero Päiviö, a professional criminal and racial bigot involved in drug trafficking, has jumped from his balcony. The man who was first pronounced dead suddenly wakes up and is taken to hospital. Loyan finds it hard to believe the man's story and decides to find out the truth at any cost. As the plot unravels, it's hard to know who to trust anymore, when Warsame seems to be up to something behind Loyan's back.
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Title: Mobile 101: The Nokia Story
Character: Jorma Ollila
Released: April 13, 2022
Type: TV
Made in Finland is a reality-based drama about telecommunication company Nokia's first steps towards global success. Who were the young and resourceful lawyers, the brilliant engineers and the and the forward-thinking director whose courage saved the whole company?
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Vinski and the Invisibility Powder
Title: Vinski and the Invisibility Powder
Character: TV reporter
Released: December 22, 2021
Type: Movie
10-year-old Vinski feels like an outsider and invisible among his age-mates, and even with his single mother Krista. Vinski meets a mysterious pharmacist who gives him a bottle of magical powder. A powder, that allows you to become invisible for real and walk through walls. It is fantastic to have the powers of a super hero, but soon a group of crooks becomes interested in the secret of invisibility as well.
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Yellow Sulphur Sky
Title: Yellow Sulphur Sky
Character: Jakob Rabell
Released: November 5, 2021
Type: Movie
In his youth, the author Frej has already found a deep connection and passion with an upper-class girl, Stella Rabell, that has lasted between them through the decades. When Stella's older brother Alex falls victim to a stabbing attack, Frej begins to reminisce about the events of decades past. Frej's memories from the bright 1970s to the present day are filled with love, jealousy, betrayal, life and death.
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Bordertown: The Mural Murders
Title: Bordertown: The Mural Murders
Character: Lasse Maasalo
Released: October 27, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Dawn of War
Title: Dawn of War
Character: Hannu
Released: October 6, 2020
Type: Movie
A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
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Title: Peacemaker
Character: Oskar Rantala
Released: September 4, 2020
Type: TV
Finnish peace negotiator Ann-Mari Sundell has recently retired from her post as a crisis response adviser in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Suddenly, she is invited by the UN mandate to lead an international conflict resolution process in Turkey. As the peace talks proceed, Ann-Mari has to reconcile with her past before her personal life comes in the way of the whole peace process.
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Title: Shadow Lines
Character: Olavi Suominen
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: TV
During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral country that stood between the East and the West. Shadow Lines is an international spy thriller that follows a secret intelligence team whose mission is to defend the independence of Finland no matter the cost.
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Abyssus
Title: Abyssus
Released: July 16, 2019
Type: Movie
A man regains consciousness as he is being buried alive. A pure nightmare fuel for the opening short-movie.
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From Matti with Love
Title: From Matti with Love
Character: Ex-vaimon mies
Released: June 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Divorced, middle-aged Matti picks up Maša near the Finnish-Russian border. Maša was waiting for a different man called Jukka, but agrees to go with Matti when he claims he is a friend of Jukka's.
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Title: The Happy Hour of the Wolf
Character: Janne
Released: April 10, 2019
Type: TV
After Janne suddenly disappears while taking out the trash, the police tell Heta there’s nothing they can do - a person has every right to go missing if there is no sign of a crime. Troubled, she begins searching for and finds only one clue: it seems Janne had undergone Koistinen’s radical divorce therapy for men.
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Goliath
Title: Goliath
Character: Örjan
Released: February 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Goliat is set in a small industrial town somewhere in Sweden. When Roland is sentenced to prison, his son, 16-year old Kimmie, is expected to provide for the family by taking over his dad's criminal business. This is a task he's not ready for. The film's depicting a boy's brutal entry into adult life and examines aspects of social heritage and patriarchal structures, at a time when the welfare is declining and Sweden is at change.
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Title: The Hunters
Character: Karl Lindmark
Released: November 14, 2018
Type: TV
Erik returns to the northernmost of Sweden after a lifetime with Stockholm police save The Hunters (1996) and False Trail (2011). Retirement doesn't become him so he helps his nephew Peter, a rookie at the local police.
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Dance on Thin Ice
Title: Dance on Thin Ice
Character: Pappa
Released: September 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Dance On Thin Ice tells the story of Felix, a twelve-year-old boy who is left to spend Christmas alone while his parents travel to India. A reluctant Felix ends up as an ice cream seller at a deserted swimming stadium, where the surface of the pool has frozen solid. But the swimming stadium is not completely deserted after all. Felix meets a dark-haired refugee girl called Fakira, whose parents were killed in a bombing in Syria.A dreamlike story where two young strangers to each other, a boy and a refugee girl, meet under unusual circumstances. Together, they make the impossible possible.Dance On Thin Ice is a story about alienation and the latent power of being different. The main characters of the film are misfits. In their own way, there is something “wrong” with them, but at the same time, something unique. Together, they right a wrong. The film shows the world through the eyes of a child, on a child’s terms. The themes of the film are tolerance and overcoming oneself.
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The Eternal Road
Title: The Eternal Road
Character: Strang
Released: September 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
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Heroes of the Baltic Sea
Title: Heroes of the Baltic Sea
Character: Daniel Bielke
Released: April 16, 2017
Type: Movie
The movie version of the 2016 adventure series Heroes of the Baltic Sea.
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Title: Heroes of the Baltic Sea
Character: Daniel Bjelke
Released: December 26, 2016
Type: TV
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The Girl King
Title: The Girl King
Character: Theology Student
Released: December 11, 2015
Type: Movie
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
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Secret Society of Souptown
Title: Secret Society of Souptown
Character: Arttu Peltomaa
Released: May 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Four children - Mari, Sadu, Olav and Anton form a secret society to play hide-and seek games invented by Mari's grandfather, a professor at the university. When the city is attacked by a mysterious poison which turns adults into children our gang embarks on a quest for the antidote.
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Title: Nurses
Character: Roope
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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Summertime
Title: Summertime
Character: Tommy
Released: August 1, 2014
Type: Movie
25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best summer city in Finland!
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Den dödes bror
Title: Den dödes bror
Character: Johan
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Karin has no idea what she wants from life but thinks she finds the answer at her father-in-law's funeral.
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The Two and Only
Title: The Two and Only
Character: Anders
Released: December 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Hanna is a 30 something single woman from Helsinki. She has a good job and great friends and has almost given up on finding the Mr. Right. One night, Hanna meets Markus, a dark stranger who sweeps her off her feet.
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Apeiron
Title: Apeiron
Character: Umbra
Released: September 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Umbra is a scientist who wants to prove his theory that human beings are ruled by chance and devoid of any purpose, and as a consequence some become evil and cruel.
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Things We Do for Love
Title: Things We Do for Love
Character: Toivo
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness.
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En kväll på krogen
Title: En kväll på krogen
Character: Alexander
Released: April 20, 2011
Type: Movie
A story about an evening in a restaurant. Six tables, seven stories, a tragicomedy about the fantasies and realities of love.
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Hella W
Title: Hella W
Character: Businessman
Released: January 28, 2011
Type: Movie
The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.
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Priest of Evil
Title: Priest of Evil
Character: Johannes Heino
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Harjunpää is unable to recover from the loss of his family. He seeks revenge against his daughter's killer, while in his work he investigates strange deaths in the Helsinki metro that turn out to be the work of a serial killer.
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Under the North Star II
Title: Under the North Star II
Character: Vilho Koskela
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
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Heartbeats
Title: Heartbeats
Character: Make
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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Under the North Star
Title: Under the North Star
Character: Vilho Koskela
Released: December 4, 2009
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Väinö Linna, the story takes place during the time of the Finnish Civil War.
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Transport
Title: Transport
Character: John Franc
Released: January 3, 2006
Type: Movie
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Shadow of the Eagle
Title: Shadow of the Eagle
Character: Aleksi
Released: September 9, 2005
Type: Movie
The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictatorship.
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Harbour Brothers
Title: Harbour Brothers
Character: Junnu
Released: December 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Finland in the 50s saw a time where boats from all over the world docked in the harbor city of Kotka. In addition to transporting goods, the sailors brought with them another import: jazz, swing and blues. A tale of music-loving, fearless and passionate young men decide to open Fennia, a jazz bar. Soon Fennia achieves legendary status and the men; the Harbour Brothers, play their music and hold court like emperors.
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Beyond the Front Line
Title: Beyond the Front Line
Character: Kaustinen
Released: March 5, 2004
Type: Movie
A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced some of the most grueling battles against the Soviet Union.
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Hiljainen viikko
Title: Hiljainen viikko
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A short film about guilt and forgiveness. A shooting incident takes place in front of a small town disco in Northern Finland. Two witnesses have to cope with loss, sorrow and guilt.