Matti Ranin

Matti Ranin

Born: November 21, 1926
Died: November 24, 2013
in Tampere, Finland

Movies for Matti Ranin...

Eetu ja Konna
Title: Eetu ja Konna
Character: Sammakkokuningas
Released: February 18, 2011
Type: Movie
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Quest for a Heart
Title: Quest for a Heart
Character: Rupeltaja (voice)
Released: December 14, 2007
Type: Movie
When the most mischievous resident of Rolli Village befriends a beautiful elf girl, the hopelessly mismatched pair embarks on a magical adventure to save the Forest of Elves by traveling to the Land of Winter and recovering the mythical magical heart in this animated tale of wonder for the entire family.
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Title: Pimeän hehku
Character: Kauko Honkavaara
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Kotikatu
Character: Kaarlo Kares
Released: August 24, 1995
Type: TV
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Trust
Title: Trust
Character: Eugen Wolff
Released: August 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and the Soviet Union. In December 1917, the Finnish delegation, composed of Chairman of the Senate Finance Department P.E. Svinhufvud (Vilho Siivola), Senator Carl Enckell (Yrjö Tähtelä) and State Secretary Gustaf Idman (Yrjö Paulo) arrive in St. Petersburg to meet V.I. Lenin (Kirill Lavrov) to gain recognition for the country's independence.
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Akseli and Elina
Title: Akseli and Elina
Character: Lauri Salpakari
Released: December 4, 1970
Type: Movie
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
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Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
Title: Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
Character: Toivo Virta
Released: September 12, 1969
Type: Movie
A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.
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Here, Beneath the North Star
Title: Here, Beneath the North Star
Character: Lauri Salpakari
Released: September 13, 1968
Type: Movie
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
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Oppenheimerin tapaus
Title: Oppenheimerin tapaus
Character: Roger Robb
Released: October 11, 1967
Type: Movie
A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer.
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Turkasen tenava!
Title: Turkasen tenava!
Character: Matti Koskinen
Released: April 12, 1963
Type: Movie
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Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu
Title: Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu
Character: Toivo Virta
Released: September 7, 1962
Type: Movie
A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for the police.
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Pinsiön parooni
Title: Pinsiön parooni
Character: Pauli Hirvonen
Released: April 13, 1962
Type: Movie
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Gas, Inspector Palmu!
Title: Gas, Inspector Palmu!
Character: Toivo Virta
Released: September 15, 1961
Type: Movie
A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so Palmu, Kokki and Virta begin the investigation: who had come to the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap while Mrs. Skrof was asleep?
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Minkkiturkki
Title: Minkkiturkki
Released: February 3, 1961
Type: Movie
A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
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Inspector Palmu's Error
Title: Inspector Palmu's Error
Character: Toivo Virta
Released: September 9, 1960
Type: Movie
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
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Kuriton sukupolvi
Title: Kuriton sukupolvi
Character: Pentti Varavaara
Released: March 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his study) and back to real life. He can hardly recognize his rebellious teenage kids and materialistic wife who hardly seem to notice his existence. The only person who is interested in the professor's work is Marja, his son's girlfriend and freshman at the university. An innocent infatuation flares up between the old man and the young girl, while the professor's family is only interested in the prize money awarded to the professor by an international jury for his academic achievements.
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Anu ja Mikko
Title: Anu ja Mikko
Character: Junu
Released: November 30, 1956
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of an orphaned Anu and carpenter Mikko trying to make a living in a small Karelian village in the early 1930s.
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Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin
Title: Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin
Character: Esko Teräs
Released: June 29, 1956
Type: Movie
A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles.
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The Unknown Soldier
Title: The Unknown Soldier
Character: Kariluoto
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
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Laivan kannella
Title: Laivan kannella
Character: Arvi
Released: November 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Young sailor Arvi falls in love with a dance girl Kerttu in a Spanish tavern, who says that she is half-Finnish and wants to go find her real father.
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Oi, muistatkos…
Title: Oi, muistatkos…
Character: Eero Salmela
Released: October 29, 1954
Type: Movie
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Hilmanpäivät
Title: Hilmanpäivät
Character: Heikki
Released: October 8, 1954
Type: Movie
The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but due to the confusion, extinguishing the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected.
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Kasarmin tytär
Title: Kasarmin tytär
Character: Rantanen
Released: June 24, 1954
Type: Movie
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Kunnioittaen
Title: Kunnioittaen
Character: Pertti Aalto
Released: January 15, 1954
Type: Movie
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Tyttö kuunsillalta
Title: Tyttö kuunsillalta
Character: Juhani Varala
Released: October 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A widow and a husband tired of a loveless marriage rekindle the attraction they shared in their youth.
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Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen
Title: Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen
Character: Aarne
Released: May 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Schoolboy Klaus is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and difficulties he keeps up his studies under the supervision of the grim Master Kahari.
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Kolmiapila
Title: Kolmiapila
Character: Olli
Released: March 29, 1953
Type: Movie
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Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?
Title: Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?
Released: May 16, 1952
Type: Movie
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Lännen lokarin veli
Title: Lännen lokarin veli
Character: 'Dandy' (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1952
Type: Movie
Coal miner Esaias Coolman returns to Finland from his working years in America.
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Yhden yön hinta
Title: Yhden yön hinta
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1952
Type: Movie
The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.
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Silmät hämärässä
Title: Silmät hämärässä
Character: Fellow actor
Released: February 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.
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…ja Helena soittaa
Title: …ja Helena soittaa
Character: Jyrki
Released: December 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the Helena series. When the Winter War breaks out, Arttu (Jussi Jurkka), the son of Helena (Irma Seikkula) and Jari Junkkeri (Erkki Viljos), go to the front. Arttu proposes to his girlfriend Elina (Leena Häkinen), but the world events come in between. When he is not heard of at the end of the war, the relatives begin to believe that Arttu is dead - everybody else but not Helena.
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In the Year 2000
Title: In the Year 2000
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A 1950 Finnish short film.
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Tanssi yli hautojen
Title: Tanssi yli hautojen
Character: Möllersvärd
Released: August 11, 1950
Type: Movie
In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
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Isäpappa ja keltanokka
Title: Isäpappa ja keltanokka
Character: Lauri Tammela
Released: March 23, 1950
Type: Movie
A widower takes care of his three children who are trying to find him a new wife.
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Katupeilin takana
Title: Katupeilin takana
Character: Kalle
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu Jalle-sedä. In Helsinki, the young people continue their courtship under the supervision of Vapu's aunt, Moster Mella. However, Vapu's father, business advisor Ossian Biörcke, is not as accepting when his daughter's actions begin to be revealed.
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Kanavan laidalla
Title: Kanavan laidalla
Character: Aapeli
Released: September 30, 1949
Type: Movie
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Ruma Elsa
Title: Ruma Elsa
Character: Student (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1949
Type: Movie
The boyish, temperamental chemistry student Elsa Kassel disapproves of her mother and sisters running after men, but when she hears that she's referred to as "ugly Elsa", she takes on a transformation. The new, charming Elsa tests her attractiveness on men and causes confusion all the way to her mother's new groom, Professor Harjula.
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Ruusu ja kulkuri
Title: Ruusu ja kulkuri
Character: Schoolboy
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an international singing star, Aappo never forgets his first love Katri, who faithfully waits in Liminga for his return.
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Koskenkylän laulu
Title: Koskenkylän laulu
Released: September 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Reino Köyri the son of a wealthy house falls off a horse and ends up at Liuhala's cottage to be treated by Venla. There he falls in love with the daughter of the house Anna. The couple’s cohabitation is hampered by previous commitments and ambiguities in kinship.