Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

Born: May 31, 1953
in Alatornio, Finland

Movies for Pirkka-Pekka Petelius...

Title: Unknown Soldier
Character: Kapteeni Kaarna
Released: December 30, 2018
Type: TV
The Unknown Soldier miniseries expands the story of the 2017 film of the same name. The World War II series based on Väinö Linna's classic novel closely follows a machine gun company of the Finnish Army on the Karelian front during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union, from mobilization in 1941 to the Moscow Armistice in 1944. It's a story about how camaraderie, humor, and a desire to survive connect men on their journey. War upends the lives of both the individual soldiers and those left on the home front, and leaves its mark on the entire nation.
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Ryhmäteatteri
Title: Ryhmäteatteri
Released: February 3, 2018
Type: Movie
Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.
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Unknown Soldier
Title: Unknown Soldier
Character: Kaarna
Released: October 27, 2017
Type: Movie
The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).
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Honeybunnies
Title: Honeybunnies
Character: Pekka
Released: January 6, 2017
Type: Movie
A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.
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Reunion 2: The Bachelor Party
Title: Reunion 2: The Bachelor Party
Character: Lääkäri
Released: November 2, 2016
Type: Movie
The career of Tuomas’ in the music industry is in a downhill spiral – but his plans of getting married with Leila are in full swing. Niklas and Antti decide to throw Tuomas the bachelor party of all times – but things don’t always turn out as planned – and the dudes end up in the funeral service of their old classmate.
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Title: Downshifters
Character: Raimo Laamanen
Released: October 26, 2016
Type: TV
A successful thirtysomething couple find themselves at a financial dead end; they are faced with an extreme lifestyle change to pay for their debts. The luxury lifestyle ends when they are forced to move into a rented apartment in the suburbs. But to their friends, they hold up a facade and explain it all with downshifting.
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The Look of a Killer
Title: The Look of a Killer
Character: Ruuskanen
Released: February 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Viktor Kärppä was forced involuntarily in the middle of Russia's internal power struggle. Soon bunch of assassins as well as Security Police are trying to catch Kärppä. Kärppä's family is also in great danger. In order to save themselves and their families they need to resort to Kärppäs friend, the police Korhonen , as well as his brother Aleksei.
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Love Records
Title: Love Records
Character: Toivo Kärki
Released: January 29, 2016
Type: Movie
The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.
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The Midwife
Title: The Midwife
Character: Jouni
Released: September 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union. Helena enlists into the camp as a nurse, where she experiences the brutality of war.
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Reunion
Title: Reunion
Character: Lääkäri
Released: February 25, 2015
Type: Movie
Luokkakokous is a story about three men that travel back to their hometown to attend their high school class reunion.
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Eila, Rampe and Baby Girl
Title: Eila, Rampe and Baby Girl
Character: Rampe
Released: December 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Baby Girl, 30, a poet with a bachelor's degree in arts, is anguished because of her relationship with Pirkka, a relatively smart, young man. Baby Girl's parents, Eila and Rampe, do their best to become friends with Pirkka and his elegant mother. Through coincidence and error Eila occupies her summerhouse neighbors' empty luxury villa. When Pirkka's mother drops by, Eila lies that she and Rampe own the fancy house. The showing off and lying escalate when Eila's mother and sister show up. The real owners of the house, an upper-class couple, Thomas and Monica, are driven away to Eila and Rampe's modest cottage.
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Title: Tellus
Character: Taneli Lokka
Released: November 16, 2014
Type: TV
As a group of Finish ecoterrorists escalate their attacks, they are pursued by an environmentally conscious detective who's less radical about his activism and tries to save the earth in his own personal way.
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Ella and Friends 2: Paterock
Title: Ella and Friends 2: Paterock
Character: Levy-yhtiön pomo
Released: December 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Ella’s friend Pate has hard time learning multiplication tables. With a little help from his friends, he decides to be a rockstar so he wouldn’t need to study anymore but his manager could study for him. Soon music industry has big plans for Pate aka Paterock.
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August Fools
Title: August Fools
Character: Poliisi
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.
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8-Ball
Title: 8-Ball
Character: Elias Kaski
Released: February 22, 2013
Type: Movie
8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her.
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Once Upon a Time in the North
Title: Once Upon a Time in the North
Character: Notary Kustaa
Released: February 17, 2012
Type: Movie
19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns that his father will leave the Välitalo estate to his younger and exemplary brother, all hell breaks loose.
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Hella W
Title: Hella W
Character: Eino Salmelainen
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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Princess
Title: Princess
Character: potilas Kuronen ("Rovasti")
Released: September 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.
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1944 The Final Defence
Title: 1944 The Final Defence
Character: Kenraaliluutnantti Airo
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: Ketonen & Myllyrinne
Released: October 8, 2006
Type: TV
Ketonen & Myllyrinne is like a brush of a rubber glove on naked thigh. The show doesn't apologize to anyone and nothing is sacred to it, except Sundays.
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Linnut
Title: Linnut
Character: Busse
Released: September 25, 2006
Type: Movie
A TV movie by Mikko Mattila.
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Addiction
Title: Addiction
Character: Teppo
Released: January 16, 2004
Type: Movie
30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life. She is constantly on the lookout for quick casual sex. When she starts seeing handsome and rich young yacht owner Aleksi, things start going awry in her life. While her sister Sanna provides her with suitable alibis,sex therapist Nora tries to help her come to terms with her addiction
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Title: Ranuan kummit
Released: March 13, 2003
Type: TV
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Kites Over Helsinki
Title: Kites Over Helsinki
Character: Henrik Bexar
Released: September 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
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The Classic
Title: The Classic
Character: Veisterä
Released: February 23, 2001
Type: Movie
A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Risto Tuohi
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Valokuvaaja
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Veksi
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Keijo
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Teukka
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Tapio Rautakoura
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Kenraali Björkstam
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Kauppias Karhunen
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Isännöitsijä
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Lapin kullan kimallus
Title: Lapin kullan kimallus
Character: Nils Lepistö
Released: September 10, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north. The friends find gold at the first excavation site, which Kittilä's crown prince Konrad Planting and Edvard Manninen also start looking for.
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Blindfolded
Title: Blindfolded
Character: Ilmari Lätti, parturi
Released: March 12, 1999
Type: Movie
Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.
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Lahja
Title: Lahja
Character: Jouni
Released: October 13, 1997
Type: Movie
A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.
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Uuno Turhapuron veli
Title: Uuno Turhapuron veli
Character: Purkka-Pekka Putelius
Released: August 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.
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Anita
Title: Anita
Character: DC Härkönen
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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Title: Tuntemattomalle Jumalalle
Character: Raymond Mäkinen
Released: March 15, 1993
Type: TV
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Lyrics and Lace
Title: Lyrics and Lace
Character: Näremäki
Released: November 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people. It's not just a romantic legend. In wry but basically directionless Finnish movie, Paavo Pentikainen plays one of these ungainly beings, a man whose last published work is decades in the past, who probably hasn't written anything in years, but who still has an uncanny knack for precise observation, "pinning the tail on the donkey" almost every time. In the movie, the poet, accompanied by his young assistant, takes a minor celebrity's swaggering tour of small cultural centers and retirement homes.
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Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
Title: Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
Character: Pentti Tömisevä
Released: August 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
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Title: Pakanamaan kartta
Character: Will
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: TV
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Rampe & Naukkis – kaikkien aikojen superpari
Title: Rampe & Naukkis – kaikkien aikojen superpari
Character: Rampe
Released: November 23, 1990
Type: Movie
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Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
Title: Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
Character: Töppö
Released: August 24, 1990
Type: Movie
This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.
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Dirty Hands
Title: Dirty Hands
Character: Slick
Released: October 4, 1989
Type: Movie
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.
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Onks' Viljoo näkyny?
Title: Onks' Viljoo näkyny?
Character: Erkki Nyysteen / Postiljooni Uutela / Naema-Aslak / Valtte / Leo / Napoleon
Released: November 4, 1988
Type: Movie
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Title: Hymyhuulet
Character: various
Released: September 26, 1987
Type: TV
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Hamlet Goes Business
Title: Hamlet Goes Business
Character: Hamlet
Released: August 21, 1987
Type: Movie
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?
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Älä itke Iines
Title: Älä itke Iines
Released: February 20, 1987
Type: Movie
Älä itke Iines is an absurd comedy about an eccentric community that lives on the roofs and attic of an apartment building, struggling to improve their living conditions. The dialogue is entirely improvised by the actors.
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V. Y. Vihdoinkin yhdessä
Title: V. Y. Vihdoinkin yhdessä
Character: Heikki "Hese" Nurmi
Released: November 28, 1986
Type: Movie
Hese, the shy owner of a video company, travels on a moped to film a commissioned Christmas party. From the steps of his office, Hese finds an anonymous Christmas present, a Hese slipover, and begins to find out who it is from.
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Linna
Title: Linna
Character: Jeremia
Released: September 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Josef seeks to make an appointment to see the ruler Herr Klamm inside his inaccessible abode, he becomes enmeshed in abuse from lowly villagers and bureaucrats alike. His endless false starts toward the castle's enigmatic interior are partly offset by a few sexual encounters but nothing alleviates his role as a victim of forces beyond his control.
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The Unknown Soldier
Title: The Unknown Soldier
Character: Hietanen
Released: December 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).
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Calamari Union
Title: Calamari Union
Character: Frank
Released: February 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles including stray dogs and defunct streetlights.
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Title: Mutapainin ystävät
Character: Various Characters
Released: December 15, 1984
Type: TV
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Title: Velipuolikuu
Released: September 24, 1983
Type: TV
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Jon
Title: Jon
Character: Jon's friend
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too.
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Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
Title: Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
Character: Vartija
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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Pölhölä
Title: Pölhölä
Character: Virkamies
Released: December 25, 1981
Type: Movie
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Kauhea murhamies Lalli
Title: Kauhea murhamies Lalli
Character: Nilla Peuransurma
Released: May 8, 1981
Type: Movie
TV play about the legend of Lalli.
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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.
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Title: Conflict
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A small, Finnish seaside town is preparing to celebrate midsummer's eve. An unknown enemy arrives and takes the entire area hostage.