Jorma Tommila

Jorma Tommila

Born: January 1, 1959
in Panelia, Finland
Jorma Tommila (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈjo̞rmɑ ˈtomːilɑ]; born 1959) is a Finnish actor. Winner of the Jussi Award for Best Actor in 1997, Tommila is best known for playing Aatami Korpi in the film Sisu (2022).

Tommila was born in Rauma, Finland and spent his youth in Kiukainen. His father died when Jorma was four years old, after suffering from injuries to his lungs in World War II. Tommila was raised by his mother, and his older sister Kielo Tommila is also an actress. He lives with his family in Vaasa. He is married to actress Ida Helander-Tommila, the sister of director Jalmari Helander. He is the father of Onni Tommila, who is also an actor.

Whilst at Helsinki Theatre Academy in 1987, Tommila was one of four founding members of God's Theater, a Finnish theater group that made experimental and radical stage art, their performances including full frontal nudity, the setting off of fire extinguishers, and the performers throwing faeces into the crowd. The four were arrested and fined, and given suspended prison sentences. They were also expelled from the college, the expulsion prompting protests from fellow students.

In 1997, Tommila won the Jussi Award for Best Actor for his role in the film The Christmas Party, directed by his God Theatre's fellow founder Jari Halonen.

Tommila's character in the film Sisu, filmed in Lapland with a budget of €6 million, has been compared with Rambo (played by Sylvester Stallone) in the 1982 film, and with John Wick (played by Keanu Reeves). He has also been described as a “new action cinema icon”. Tommila portrays Aatami Korpi, an ex-commando and gold prospector who strikes gold but has his bounty stolen by Nazi soldiers. Korpi, with courage and "unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds", becomes "a one-man death squad who will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back – even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path." For the role Tommila won the award for best actor at the Sitges Film Festival in 2022.

Movies for Jorma Tommila...

Sisu
Title: Sisu
Character: Aatami
Released: September 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Deep in the wilderness of Lapland, Aatami Korpi is searching for gold but after he stumbles upon Nazi patrol, a breathtaking and gold-hungry chase through the destroyed and mined Lapland wilderness begins.
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On Thin Ice
Title: On Thin Ice
Character: Pomo
Released: August 26, 2022
Type: Movie
Temporarily homeless Jarna is in the deepest trouble of his life. Debtors have come to collect old drug debts and Jarna is given 24 hours to pay up, setting off a frantic, amphetamine fueled battle against time. Manic speed, fear of killers on his tail, paranoia and self-loathing over old wrongs eventually lead to a traffic accident. Jarna can no longer escape, his pace slows and he is on the verge of giving up. The moment has come when a near-lifetime of running must come to an end.
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Man and a Junior
Title: Man and a Junior
Character: Tarhasetä
Released: November 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Antti Pasanen juggles between taking care of Paavo, his work and personal life, until Enni has an accident and he has two kids to take care of.
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Heroes of the Baltic Sea
Title: Heroes of the Baltic Sea
Character: Lauri Tott
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: Lauri Tott
Released: December 26, 2016
Type: TV
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The Legacy
Title: The Legacy
Character: Isä
Released: August 19, 2015
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age story of the blood bond between brothers, almost impossible to break.
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Big Game
Title: Big Game
Character: Tapio
Released: March 19, 2015
Type: Movie
Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.
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Title: Nurses
Character: Hannan isä
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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Title: Kimmo
Character: Rafe
Released: September 6, 2012
Type: TV
The name of the person is a thirtysomething, work shy and relaxed Kimmo.
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Title: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Character: Rauno
Released: December 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed…
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Priest of Evil
Title: Priest of Evil
Character: Matias Krankke
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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The Visitor
Title: The Visitor
Character: The Father
Released: December 8, 2008
Type: Movie
A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the boy´s only other companion. Their simple life is disrupted when a stranger appears, with a note from the father and a bullet in his side. Reluctantly, mother and son offer the stranger refuge.
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Sisters Apart
Title: Sisters Apart
Character: Harri
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: Lukio
Character: Liikanen
Released: January 27, 2008
Type: TV
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High Hopes
Title: High Hopes
Released: September 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Tale about an inventor couple and their obscured vision to raise a child to fly.
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The Year of the Wolf
Title: The Year of the Wolf
Character: Jarkko Salminen
Released: February 2, 2007
Type: Movie
Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works."
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The Fakir
Title: The Fakir
Character: Guardian Angel
Released: September 16, 2006
Type: Movie
The Fakir is fairy tale about the responsibility of ones life, and avoiding it.
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The Official Rare Exports Inc. Safety Instructions 2005
Title: The Official Rare Exports Inc. Safety Instructions 2005
Character: Sniper
Released: September 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Not meant for the public eye, this film reveals the dark reality of what's wrong with company's product. With its primitive instincts triggered by bad behaviour of people around it, the seemingly tame Father Christmas will forget the intensive training and turn into a brutal beast. You better watch out, you better not cry, There's no room for mistakes.
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Vares: Private Eye
Title: Vares: Private Eye
Character: Antero Kraft
Released: July 23, 2004
Type: Movie
On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
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Rare Exports Inc.
Title: Rare Exports Inc.
Character: Sniper
Released: June 19, 2003
Type: Movie
An elite trio of expert hunters venture into the woods to track and capture an especially rare and dangerous prey for the Christmas season.
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Raid
Title: Raid
Character: Legionary
Released: January 31, 2003
Type: Movie
Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a larceny. He is also contacted by inspector Jansson, who he knows from the past regarding the murder of a protestor. Raid begins his investigation and soon finds that there's more to the cases than meets the eye.
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Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods
Title: Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods
Character: Röllien kylänvanhin
Released: December 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Hairy and rowdy creatures called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare the elves away and settle down in the village. One of the elves, Milli, a brave elf girl, returns to the village to make a peace with the rolleys. The rolleys do not warm to Milli's peace proposal, but she becomes friends with a rolley called Rölli. It becomes their mission to solve the conflict between the elves and the rolleys.
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Ukkonen
Title: Ukkonen
Character: Akseli Ukkonen
Released: September 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Ukkonen (means Thunder) is a short film about a man called Ukkonen who was turned into a radioactive man in an accident in the Generator Corporation research plant, company secretly designing radioactive weapons with an energy business as a cover. Ukkonen starts his crusade to bring the company down and get his revenge. Nice quality for an independent production, even some special effects and some funny, overdramatic monologue by Ukkonen. Unfortunately the film is very short, lasting only about 20 minutes. Worth checking out if you somehow find this film.
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Bad Luck Love
Title: Bad Luck Love
Character: Ali
Released: September 29, 2000
Type: Movie
A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka, a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy.
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Iceman
Title: Iceman
Released: June 4, 1999
Type: Movie
Finnish small time criminal gets a mission to get an Asian man from Sweden to Finland. In Lapland the frost gets on the nerves and the mission turns into a deadly arctic chase.
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Maxmillian Tarzan
Title: Maxmillian Tarzan
Character: Tarzanin ääni (voice)
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
The authorities are after a time-traveler identifying as Maxmillian Tarzan.
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Joulubileet
Title: Joulubileet
Character: Bona Merenkylä
Released: November 29, 1996
Type: Movie
A story of Mike, just out of prison, and his buddies throwing a Christmas party under the most obscure circumstances is filled with juicy dialogue and plot twists that will definitely make your jaw drop – and have you chuckle for days after.
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Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma
Title: Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma
Character: Lipton Cockton
Released: April 21, 1995
Type: Movie
The 21st-century tale centers on taciturn detective Lipton Cockton as he looks into a series of murders involving exploding victims. The main clue in the case is the white halter dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in the subway vent scene in The Seven Year Itch. This clue directs Cockton to the highest levels of the super company LTD Prods. But though Cockton tries and tries, he cannot get there and ends up himself blown to smithereens.
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Back to the USSR
Title: Back to the USSR
Character: Reima Elo
Released: March 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Reima Elo ends up trying to commit suicide when he is abandoned by his wife Molla. He is also the village's laughing stock due to his communism. At a critical moment, a Lenin lookalike from Russia named Vladimir rescues him.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Marcellus
Released: October 10, 1985
Type: Movie
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance. Direct television broadcast from Kino Helsinki. Students from Theatre Academy Helsinki working under director Jouko Turkka.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Kalevi
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.