Tapio Liinoja

Tapio Liinoja

Born: November 8, 1954
in Vampula, Finland

Movies for Tapio Liinoja...

Title: Forgiven
Character: Pasi
Released: November 13, 2023
Type: TV
Forgiven is a realistic miniseries with dense atmosphere, based on Laura Manninen's novel. 30-something strong-willed Vilma falls in love with Mikko, who is perfect in many ways: a charming, polite, sensitive and sympathetically capricious man. Gradually, Vilma, who has never dreamed of children, realizes that she and Mikko have somehow become a blended family with hustle and bustle and three children. There's a dog, apple trees and beautifully aged house. Little by little, Mikko's true personality is revealed and the seemingly perfect idyll collapses. The abnormal becomes completely normal. Love, shame, fear and need to solve the problems keep Vilma in abusive relationship until the situation escalates to the poins where it's all about surviving and staying alive. The drama series Forgiven deals with love, domestic violence, shame and the culture of silence. Forgiven is a tragic love story, but also a story of survival.
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Kulkuset kulkuset
Title: Kulkuset kulkuset
Character: Heikki
Released: October 28, 2022
Type: Movie
Two diverse families meet for the first time over Christmas dinner. The evening goes off the rails right from the start when the male host couple reveal a closely guarded secret: there's also a hostess in the house, and she's very pregnant! Of course, the frantic group of relatives don't take the news lightly and demand the paternity to be confirmed - which is no simple task. A series of misunderstandings drives the Christmas guests to the brink of a nervous breakdown, and as the evening progresses, Santa Claus himself is forced to look in the mirror. Their Christmas together seems doomed to failure until, to everyone's surprise, the evening culminates in a heart-melting Christmas miracle.
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Title: Kentän laidalla
Character: Esko-Juhani Jalava
Released: May 22, 2021
Type: TV
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Helene
Title: Helene
Character: Gentleman (uncredited)
Released: January 17, 2020
Type: Movie
Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside. It has been years since the last exhibit, and Helene continues to paint only because of her passion. Everything changes when art dealer finds Helen and her 159 wonderful paintings - and wants to organize a big private exhibit. However, Helen's turning point comes only when she is introduced to Einar Reuter. Young Einar is a forester, art enthusiast, and a passionate admirer of Helene's work. He becomes Helen's trusted and lover.
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Sibelius Continuum
Title: Sibelius Continuum
Released: May 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Aino, a pilot intern in her small plane, is assigned on a mission to locate a mysterious lost space probe that has fallen down to earth near the arctic circle. Events make an absurd, surreal, maybe a dadaist turn after which to reach her objectives, Aino and her peers are obliged to search for the answer to the mysteries of the modern human condition. Thus follows a satirical, antimodernist continuum of monologues, mixed-media footage and introductions of modern subjectivity. The film is a flight through the darker sides of fossil-fueled European rationalism, shedding light on techno-capitalist-individualist age of modern alienation, hauntological nostalgies of imagined futures, the profound problematics of translating human communication, the post-human sides of Jean Sibelius – and finally – the reindeers of the north.
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Title: Kontio & Parmas
Character: Weckert
Released: June 1, 2018
Type: TV
Veteran police lieutenant Kontio will have to work closely with a new partner, a much younger female officer Parmas. Small Town Police Department of Valkeakoski, Finland, will never be the same.
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Grey Wolf
Title: Grey Wolf
Character: Päällikkö
Released: May 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Digging up the memory of the Finnish Civil War in 1918, Grey Wolf tells a historical story with a modern twist. When Viktor Stark, a peaceful writer of the conservative Whites, finds a wounded enemy soldier hiding for his life, Stark’s values and loyalty are measured against each other. Will he choose a higher moral or otherness? The answer is revealed in the final scene that turns the whole world around. Grey Wolf is set in history, but truly, it tells about us.
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Title: Duke of the Suburbs
Character: Martikainen
Released: May 9, 2018
Type: TV
Duke of Sipoo is a comedy about corruption and family man, Pasi Kovalainen, who has built his empire mostly by questionable means. Kovalainen himself doesn't think he's a criminal, but a average man trying to make a living and a victim of bureaucracy. Prosecutor takes interests in his actions and puts two criminal investigators to investigate everything he does, planning to catch him even for something small and get him put behind bars. At the same time, one reporter and group of other people want his head on a plate too.
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My Brother's Keeper
Title: My Brother's Keeper
Character: Maths teacher
Released: January 31, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother.
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Linnan juhlat
Title: Linnan juhlat
Character: Mies nakkikioskilla
Released: December 3, 2017
Type: Movie
In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only plane, but the Laplander Jallu agrees to drive him 1200 km (745 miles) south.
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Heroes of the Baltic Sea
Title: Heroes of the Baltic Sea
Character: Old Man
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: Old Man
Released: December 26, 2016
Type: TV
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The Committee
Title: The Committee
Character: Markku
Released: September 16, 2016
Type: Movie
Three delegates from Sweden, Norway and Finland are gathered in Lapland to decide which piece of art should be placed at the border of their countries. But the committee is in for a surprise… The delegates are faced with the challenge of making a democratic decision: is there something they can agree on to represent a true Nordic movement?
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Title: Nurses
Character: Paavo Luhtanen
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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The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand
Title: The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand
Character: Peep show operator
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time
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August Fools
Title: August Fools
Character: Juontaja
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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The Year of '85: Rock Your Memories
Title: The Year of '85: Rock Your Memories
Character: Komisario Peppone
Released: January 25, 2013
Type: Movie
The movie is about the Lokomo laborer, and group of friends that dreams come true and a thirst for fast-paced life that take decades.
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Title: Maailma on valmis
Character: Lauri Jansson
Released: August 15, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Virta
Character: Markku Takkula
Released: April 7, 2011
Type: TV
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Jäät
Title: Jäät
Character: Matti
Released: October 4, 2010
Type: Movie
A Finnish TV movie.
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Princess
Title: Princess
Character: Pankinjohtaja Granqvist
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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Title: Suojelijat
Character: Matti
Released: March 4, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Harvoin tarjolla
Character: Lauri Jansson
Released: January 14, 2008
Type: TV
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Legend of the Lake Bodom
Title: Legend of the Lake Bodom
Character: Medical Superintendent
Released: December 18, 2006
Type: Movie
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Time to Die
Title: Time to Die
Character: Poliisipäällikkö
Released: August 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Mysterious murders are haunting the city of Jyväskylä. Meanwhile a couple of teens are celebrating one's birthday but soon they get dragged into that mysterious murder case.
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Jackpot
Title: Jackpot
Character: Kasettiäijä
Released: February 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
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Shadow of the Eagle
Title: Shadow of the Eagle
Character: Commander
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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Game Over
Title: Game Over
Character: Pertti Ilola
Released: August 26, 2005
Type: Movie
A movie inspired by a true crime - the coldblooded Heino double murder, committed by a group of teenagers - that shocked Finland in 2001.
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Title: Raid
Character: Hammar
Released: January 10, 2000
Type: TV
Raid is based on detective stories by author Harri Nykänen and made into a 12-part series. The story tells about a police officer who has been investigating white-collar crimes is shot dead in a TV-studio. Another policeman takes his own life at his summer home. A young woman, an executive with a powerful electronics concern, also commits suicide. Her embittered father suspects foul play and he invites Raid, the woman's former boyfriend to "make inquiries". Meanwhile, the police are looking for the first killer - and the trail leads inexorably to Raid. Very soon, however, they realise that the guilty party is somewhere else, and the interests of the police and the avenging angel Raid converge. The unholy alliance shows that even those with morals may, to some extent, use immoral means to achieve an end. The Raid series was voted the best TV-programme in Finland year 2000. Tapio Piirainen received an award for best script and best direction. The series was also honoured with a prestigious film award and the Finnish Whodunnit Society's award. The music from the series sold gold and platinum.
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The Swan and the Wanderer
Title: The Swan and the Wanderer
Character: Tapio Rautavaara
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters: Tapio Rautavaara and Repe Helismaa, who worked together until their relationship got frictious for a long time. The film covers the years from 1949 to 1965. Since the film is based on real-life persons it also tells much about the change in Finland during those years and of course much about Finnish popular music.
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Title: Lääkärit tulessa
Character: Eric Stevens
Released: October 18, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Uutisvuoto
Released: February 21, 1998
Type: TV
Uutisvuoto is the Finnish version of the popular British television quiz show Have I Got News For You. Broadcast on Saturday nights on YLE TV1 since 1998, the show receives very high viewing figures. Uutisvuoto mainly follows the same format as Have I Got News For You. The guests are usually celebrities, and frequently politicians. In the last two presidential elections, both of the second-round candidates appeared as guests: to-be-president Tarja Halonen and Esko Aho in 2000, and president Halonen and Sauli Niinistö in 2006. To date, winning the show has correlated with winning the election contest itself. In 2006 the "presidential show" broke all viewing records when it was watched by 1.4 million viewers. The show is so popular in Finland that it was even parodied in the Aku Ankka comic book as Uutiskuono. "Haluatteko lukea hyvän vitsin jonka kuulin äsken Yleisradion kahvilassa?" is Peter Nyman's Uutisvuoto joke book. The book's name is a reference to Nyman's way of telling jokes. He opens with the book's name, then, ignoring all answers, continues: "Ei se mitään, kerron sen silti."
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Kummeli Kultakuume
Title: Kummeli Kultakuume
Character: Isä Aleksei
Released: December 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.
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Yöjuna
Title: Yöjuna
Character: Jukka Laukkanen, Valkemin johtaja
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
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Title: Lihaksia ja luoteja
Character: Konovalenko
Released: May 5, 1996
Type: TV
Humoristic police series made by Kummeli comedy group. It includes some characters from Kummeli TV-series.
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Pekko ja massahurmaaja
Title: Pekko ja massahurmaaja
Character: Markku
Released: September 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Pekko is jealous when Pipsa is under the spell of the handsome Markku. The children Kalle and Katariina enjoy each other's company. Beauty salon owner Kaisa Kuovi and police officer Reino are preparing for their wedding.
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Title: Kotikatu
Character: Nalle Kaasalainen
Released: August 24, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Hyvien ihmisten kylä
Character: Reino Toppari
Released: December 22, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Viimeiset Siemenperunat
Character: Komulainen
Released: December 14, 1993
Type: TV
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Title: Kuudesti laukeava
Released: March 28, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: Maailman kahdeksan ihmettä
Released: September 15, 1990
Type: TV
Lapinlahden linnut
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Mother Wanted
Title: Mother Wanted
Character: Mies 2
Released: January 27, 1989
Type: Movie
Anni wants a new mommy for herself and a new wife for her dad. But dad has forgotten how to find a wife and needs Anni's help.
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Title: Seitsemän kuolemansyntiä
Released: October 15, 1988
Type: TV
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Bicycle Thief
Title: Bicycle Thief
Character: Raimo Viljanen
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A rustic comedy about a small-town bowling alley entrepreneur who learns that being scammed is not the end of the world.