Urho Kekkonen

Urho Kekkonen

Born: September 3, 1900
Died: August 31, 1987
in Pielavesi, Finland
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986) was a Finnish politician who served as the eighth and longest-serving President of Finland from 1956 until 1982. He was the third and most recent president from the Agrarian League/Center Party. As head of state for nearly 26 years, he dominated Finnish politics, held a large amount of power, won his later elections with little opposition and has often been classified as an autocrat. Nevertheless, he remains a respected figure.

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Movies for Urho Kekkonen...

Rogue Reporters
Title: Rogue Reporters
Character: Self (Archive footage)
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: Movie
The documentary tells the story of the political scandal caused by the book 'The Spoils of Tamminiemi' from the perspective of the journalists who wrote it. The time of the book's publication was the worst time of the Finlandization, Soviet spies worked behind the scenes and the power struggle was heating up, who would be successor of the President Kekkonen? The authors of the book appeared under pseudonyms, but the subjects of the writings were named, and it revealed everything that had been going on behind the scenes.
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State Funeral
Title: State Funeral
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 22, 2019
Type: Movie
The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in the USSR on March 5 - 9, 1953, when the country mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
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Title: Kekkonen
Character: Himself (Archive footage)
Released: December 26, 2017
Type: TV
The whole story of Urho Kekkonen, the most important statesman during Finland's independence.
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Disco and Atomic War
Title: Disco and Atomic War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 10, 2009
Type: Movie
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.
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Moonshine Village
Title: Moonshine Village
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2005
Type: Movie
Moonshine Village is a story about producing moonshine in Kitee, Finland, and its effect on the village's social and economic development between 1960-70. For most families producing Moonshine was a prerequisite. Kitee became one of the most remarkable producers - both in good and bad. According to an 85-year old police officer, in the 1960s there were no villages that were not producing Moonshine. Yet, the city mayor of Kitee says that this time has been the most creative time in the town's history.
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Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki
Title: Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki
Released: December 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki, shot by Pirjo Honkasalo and Eero Salmenhaara, is a documentary on the capital of Finland.
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Presidentin päivä
Title: Presidentin päivä
Character: self
Released: February 16, 1977
Type: Movie
A documentary following a day in Urho Kekkonen's life as the president of Finland.
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Parempaan asumiseen
Title: Parempaan asumiseen
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Risto Jarva's short documentary on housing in Helsinki in the late 1960's.
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December 6, 1960
Title: December 6, 1960
Character: self
Released: December 31, 1960
Type: Movie
Independence Day celebrations at the Finnish presidential palace December 6, 1960.
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Näin syntyi Saimaan kanava
Title: Näin syntyi Saimaan kanava
Character: self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Finnish documentary film.