Antti Virmavirta

Antti Virmavirta

Born: March 7, 1959
in Harjavalta, Finland

Movies for Antti Virmavirta...

Palimpsest
Title: Palimpsest
Character: Juhani - Senior
Released: April 12, 2024
Type: Movie
Two elderly roommates at a hospice are randomly selected for a Gene-Therapy Trial that rejuvenates their bodies, making them younger. Given a second chance at love, lust and life, with the memories of their past life intact, they now must find their place in a new world that has left them behind.
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Title: The Man Who Died
Character: Olli
Released: June 19, 2022
Type: TV
Jaakko, a mushroom entrepreneur, finds out too late that he has been fatally slow-poisoned by persons unknown. He sets out to find the culprits before he dies.
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Title: Transport
Character: Kari Hammarèn
Released: March 27, 2022
Type: TV
A journalist traces a microchip found in baby food. A bank manager's mistake ensnares her in a much larger scheme. A family falls apart after the father goes missing. An insurance examiner investigates what happened to a border control veterinarian. This suspenseful Nordic noir drama enters the world of international money laundering through the stories of ordinary people caught up in the crimes.
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There Will Be Spring
Title: There Will Be Spring
Character: Mitrei
Released: August 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Late 40’s after the war. Strange languaged and religioned immigrants fleeing from Karelia region are hated by Finns in the countryside. 19-year old Anni is living her life wanting to forget the war and hostility surrounding her. Falling in love with a man who hasn’t left fighting, threatens Anni’s whole family’s future and hope for mutual forgiveness..
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Title: Man in Room 301
Character: Risto Kurtti
Released: December 19, 2019
Type: TV
Summer 2007, Finland. While the Kurtti are spending their annual holidays in their cabins in the land of a thousand lakes, the family is struck by a tragedy: Tommi, 2 years old, is killed by a gunshot. Elias, a 12-year-old neighbour, is blamed for the death of the child. 12 years later, the family receives a threatening anonymous letter and the secrets start to unravel, and show how far each of them are willing to go for their loved ones.
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Title: Taisto - muovista ja rakkaudesta
Character: Kaikkonen
Released: April 15, 2019
Type: TV
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Ricky Rapper and the Strongman
Title: Ricky Rapper and the Strongman
Character: Guru
Released: February 15, 2019
Type: Movie
Ricky and Nelly decide to take part in arm wrestling competition during their summer holiday.
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Land of Hope
Title: Land of Hope
Character: Kalevi
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her past behind her and starts leading the life of a pioneer, in the wild forests of northern Karelia, in a settlement farm. After a rosy start, the fate crushes Anni’s dreams and her love for Veikko is put to a test.
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Title: Deadwind
Character: Lennart
Released: March 14, 2018
Type: TV
When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.
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Nuoruustango
Title: Nuoruustango
Character: Tom
Released: December 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Is love eternal? Or ideology? When erstwhile communists meet at a food course the result is quite the concoction.
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Linnan juhlat
Title: Linnan juhlat
Character: Päivystäjä
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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The Eternal Road
Title: The Eternal Road
Character: Mäki
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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The Other Side of Hope
Title: The Other Side of Hope
Character: Police at the Station
Released: February 3, 2017
Type: Movie
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
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Tatu and Patu: An Oddsville Christmas
Title: Tatu and Patu: An Oddsville Christmas
Character: Announcer
Released: October 19, 2016
Type: Movie
A young girl and her two friends from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville make plans to celebrate Christmas together, but when she is late to pick them up from the train station, the pair wander out on their own leading to a delightful series of hilarious mishaps, inventions, and flights of fancy - until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.
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The Mine
Title: The Mine
Character: Olli Salo
Released: January 22, 2016
Type: Movie
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.
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Title: Hooked
Character: Pentti Seppä
Released: November 4, 2015
Type: TV
Drug Crime Detective Oskari is the envy of his colleagues. His connections to underworld and informants is unrivaled. What they don't know is the mother of his child, Krista, is a drug addict who lives in that world. And now she's back in his life, shaking his home life on one hand, and offering new connections to knocking down the rise of drug imports. If only he could trust her.
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Seamstress
Title: Seamstress
Character: EK:n / Valpon etsivä (voice)
Released: September 25, 2015
Type: Movie
A documentary film about Martta Koskinen, the last executed woman in Finland during the war in 1943. Martta was a Seamstress who lived in Helsinki during the Second World War. She was one of the post-civil war (in 1918) generation for whom the war had meant a disappointment in the system and failure in unity of the Finnish nation. The legacy of the civil war had left systems of persecution in place for those with socialist ideals. Martta and her fellow revolutionaries were determined to continue the resistance movement although they knew that at worst it could cost their lives. Martta was imprisoned twice before she was shot. She was an idealist, whose seemingly harmless, naive beliefs in peace and justice were the most dangerous traits a person could have at the time.
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Raspberry Boat Refugee
Title: Raspberry Boat Refugee
Character: Neighbor #2
Released: August 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspberry Boat Refugee is a comedy about cultural differences in the Nordic countries, their nationalism and, not least, prejudices about our neighbours. It also proves how futile it is to try to escape oneself.
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Title: Sata lasissa
Character: Kaapo
Released: September 22, 2013
Type: TV
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Body Fat Index of Love
Title: Body Fat Index of Love
Character: Stigun isä
Released: December 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Stigu and Ella have a just-sex relationship. Stigu is secretly in love but settles for what he can get because Ella wants nothing more. Until they find themselves in a same work project: designing an advertisement for the Family Federation on sustainable relationships. It seems like mission impossible since Ella doesn't believe in the whole concept and Stigu knows nothing about it.
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Vares: Tango of Darkness
Title: Vares: Tango of Darkness
Character: Insinööri Erkki Vehmanen
Released: October 5, 2012
Type: Movie
The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his back. The biggest manhunt in the county faded away without results. Jussi Vares gets a phone call from a down-and-out journalist; the informant tells Vares he knows the murderer. Then the journalist disappears without a trace and Vares has to face the biggest challenge of his career. To add insult to the injury, an old acquaintance Veikko Hopea gets his first prison furlough…
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Hush
Title: Hush
Character: Olli, Sakarin isä
Released: July 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Sakari and Veera get engaged, madly in love. Not long after, Veera asks Sakari to help her in a matter relating to her father, and in a way that completely shocks Sakari. He does everything in his power to stop her from pursuing her plan. But before the story is over, Sakari will be been forced to make choices he thought he'd never have to face.
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Frozen Hell
Title: Frozen Hell
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 2, 2011
Type: Movie
During the Continuation War, there were dozens of POW camps in Finland. About the third of 70,000 prisoners died during the first year of war. Most of the archives of the camps were destroyed and the majority of the war crimes were never revealed.
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Garbage Prince
Title: Garbage Prince
Character: Markku Laakso
Released: July 29, 2011
Type: Movie
Jed (19) walks out on his former life, without destination, without explanation, and gets on a train. He ends up by happenstance in a small eastern town in Finland where he soon comes face to face with the daily rigors of independent life. Coping becomes a challenge for him almost to the point of being an obsession. Of all the people in town, Jed seems to constantly run across the prickly and quick-witted Lulu (17). Gradually, without either of them admitting it, their relationship changes from bickering, picking on each other and a battle of wills to friendship, and as can happen, finally to love.
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Title: Virta
Character: Lasse Virta
Released: April 7, 2011
Type: TV
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The House of Branching Love
Title: The House of Branching Love
Character: Timo
Released: August 21, 2009
Type: Movie
A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.
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One Foot Under
Title: One Foot Under
Character: Lehtojoki
Released: March 20, 2009
Type: Movie
Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live. Because of this, he is a member of a therapeutical support group for people suffering from terminal diseases. Visa's life changes when a young female reporter, Hanna Manninen arrives at the support group offering to write a series of articles about Visa's life story.
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The Novelist
Title: The Novelist
Character: Ilmari Vouvila
Released: September 26, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: Suojelijat
Character: Teuvo
Released: March 4, 2008
Type: TV
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8 Days to Premiere
Title: 8 Days to Premiere
Character: Rehtori
Released: January 25, 2008
Type: Movie
A love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season's grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.
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Pearls and Pigs
Title: Pearls and Pigs
Character: Sika
Released: August 29, 2003
Type: Movie
When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.
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Upswing
Title: Upswing
Character: Ilpo Heino
Released: February 28, 2003
Type: Movie
Katri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki.
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Mosku: The Last of His Kind
Title: Mosku: The Last of His Kind
Character: Sau-herra
Released: February 14, 2003
Type: Movie
A story about the life of reindeer emperor Mosku in Eastern Lapland at the beginning of the 20th century, when social conditions and the practice of traditional livelihoods are in transition. Mosku is involved in reindeer disputes and skirmishes and is also involved in the bandit hunt on the side of Soviet Russia led by Wallenius, the commander of the Lapland border guard.
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Hayflower and Quiltshoe
Title: Hayflower and Quiltshoe
Character: Matti Kattilakoski
Released: October 18, 2002
Type: Movie
The quirky adventures of Hayflower and her little sister Quiltshoe.
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Aita
Title: Aita
Character: Lauri
Released: December 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love with his daughter's new friend, 16-year old flirtatious Saija.
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Don't Push the River
Title: Don't Push the River
Character: Jyrki
Released: January 6, 2001
Type: Movie
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Title: Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Seppo Lujamo
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Pulkkinen
Character: Various Characters
Released: September 6, 1999
Type: TV
Pulkkinen was an award-winning Finnish sketch series which aired between 1999 and 2002, and starring actors Jari Salmi and Antti Virmavirta . The series was written by Juha Jokela, and is known for its courageous humor. Pulkkinen's first season was released on DVD in 2005 and the second season in 2006. The third and last series was published in October 2006.
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Tommy and the Wildcat
Title: Tommy and the Wildcat
Character: Father
Released: December 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Twelve-year-old Tommy reluctantly moves with his father from the big city to a small Lapp village - the childhood home of his mother, who has recently died. The village is close to the northernmost wildlife reserve in the world, where Tommy's father will be working on a project to release a captive lynx into the wild. The boy gradually falls under the spell of his new surroundings, and discovers that his mother was involved in protecting the local lynx, and, when his father's project fails, and the lynx is about to be sold, he decides to set it free himself. A dramatic series of events ensues, and Tommy, through his brave actions, regains the trust and respect of his family and the village.
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Title: Lääkärit tulessa
Character: Eino Siltala
Released: October 18, 1998
Type: TV
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Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies
Title: Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies
Character: Poliisi
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.
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Title: Pimeän hehku
Character: Konstaapeli Mäenpää
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: TV
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Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät
Title: Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät
Character: Raikas Poikolainen
Released: September 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Inspector Timo Harjunpää works on harassment and extortion campaign case against successful computer expert.
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Title: Pimennys
Character: Myyrä
Released: August 30, 1993
Type: TV
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Uuno Turhapuron poika
Title: Uuno Turhapuron poika
Released: August 13, 1993
Type: Movie
Gangsters try to steal Uuno Turhapuro's father-in-law's money by infiltrating into the family through Uuno, by pretending he has a long-lost son.
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Akvaariorakkaus
Title: Akvaariorakkaus
Character: Raikka Merivuo
Released: January 15, 1993
Type: Movie
Waitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in to live with him. Joni tries his best to satisfy Saara sexually but, disturbed by violent lesbian fantasies, she is unable to experience orgasm. Trying to cope with the situation, Saara has another brief affair back in her old home town.
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Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
Title: Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
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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Lain ulkopuolella
Title: Lain ulkopuolella
Character: Constable
Released: October 30, 1987
Type: Movie
On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.
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Title: Fakta homma
Character: Automyyjä
Released: February 19, 1986
Type: TV
Fakta homma is a Finnish comedy television series. It first aired on Finnish TV in 1986 and last aired in 1998.