Matti Pellonpää

Matti Pellonpää

Born: March 28, 1951
Died: July 13, 1995
in Helsinki, Finland
Matti Pellonpää (March 28, 1951 in Helsinki – July 13, 1995 in Vaasa) was an award-winning Finnish actor and a musician. He rose to international fame with his roles in both Aki Kaurismäki's and Mika Kaurismäki's films; particularly being a regular in Aki's films, appearing in 18 of them.

He started his career in 1962 as a radio actor at the Finnish state-owned broadcasting company YLE. He performed as an actor during the 70s in many amateur theatres, at the same time that he studied at the Finnish Theatre Academy, where he completed his studies in the year 1977.

He was nominated Best Actor by European Film Academy for his role as Rodolfo in La Vie de Boheme and won the Felix at the European Film Awards in 1992. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth.

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Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla
Title: Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla
Character: himself
Released: March 6, 2013
Type: Movie
Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988.
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Bohemian Eyes
Title: Bohemian Eyes
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 26, 2011
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.
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L.A. Without a Map
Title: L.A. Without a Map
Character: Rodolfo (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.
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Iron Horsemen
Title: Iron Horsemen
Character: Seeker
Released: January 27, 1995
Type: Movie
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.
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Pieniä valheita
Title: Pieniä valheita
Character: Luikki
Released: May 7, 1994
Type: Movie
The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator.
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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
Title: Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
Character: Moses / Vladimir
Released: February 24, 1994
Type: Movie
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home.
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Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
Title: Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
Character: Reino
Released: January 14, 1994
Type: Movie
Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.
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Title: Konstan pylkkerö
Character: Anselmi
Released: January 4, 1994
Type: TV
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Sutki
Title: Sutki
Character: Dino
Released: November 10, 1993
Type: Movie
Finnish comedy.
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The Last Border
Title: The Last Border
Character: Dimitri
Released: August 20, 1993
Type: Movie
One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world
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Title: The Hobbits
Character: Saruman
Released: March 29, 1993
Type: TV
Hobitit is a Finnish live action fantasy television miniseries originally broadcast in 1993 on Yle TV1. Produced by Olof Qvickström, it is based on the events of the books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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La Vie de Bohème
Title: La Vie de Bohème
Character: Rodolfo
Released: February 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
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Where Is Musette?
Title: Where Is Musette?
Character: self
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"
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Night on Earth
Title: Night on Earth
Character: Mika
Released: December 12, 1991
Type: Movie
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
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Zombie and the Ghost Train
Title: Zombie and the Ghost Train
Character: Harri
Released: July 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?
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Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers
Title: Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers
Character: Toimistovirkailijat
Released: March 8, 1991
Type: Movie
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Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Title: Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Character: Interpreter of Fruktosian
Released: December 21, 1990
Type: Movie
That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance.
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Dolly and Her Lover
Title: Dolly and Her Lover
Character: Räpsy
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal activities. Alcoholic Dolly takes Räpsy to live in Kallio, Helsinki, and hopes to move to Paris with her in the spring.
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Kumma juttu
Title: Kumma juttu
Character: self
Released: October 13, 1989
Type: Movie
A group of kids goes on an adventure to help their scientist friend.
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Dirty Hands
Title: Dirty Hands
Character: Hugo Barine
Released: October 4, 1989
Type: Movie
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.
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Paper Star
Title: Paper Star
Character: Ravintolan asiakas
Released: September 29, 1989
Type: Movie
Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Title: Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Character: Vladimir (Manager)
Released: March 24, 1989
Type: Movie
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
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Cha Cha Cha
Title: Cha Cha Cha
Character: Matti Ojanperä
Released: January 20, 1989
Type: Movie
A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!
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Ariel
Title: Ariel
Character: Mikkonen
Released: October 21, 1988
Type: Movie
After the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for the city to make a living but there, he is framed and imprisoned for various crimes.
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Hamlet Goes Business
Title: Hamlet Goes Business
Character: Guard
Released: August 21, 1987
Type: Movie
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?
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Näkemiin, hyvästi
Title: Näkemiin, hyvästi
Released: December 19, 1986
Type: Movie
When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implications for the rest of their lives.
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Shadows in Paradise
Title: Shadows in Paradise
Character: Nikander
Released: October 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.
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Päätepysäkki
Title: Päätepysäkki
Character: Sepi
Released: October 17, 1986
Type: Movie
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Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan
Title: Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan
Character: Earless Man
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom.
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Rocky VI
Title: Rocky VI
Released: June 14, 1986
Type: Movie
Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren. In this 1986 send-up, Rock'y, played by Silu Seppala, goes head to head with Soviet Igor (Sakari Kuosmanen) and loses.
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Ylösnousemus
Title: Ylösnousemus
Character: Formulakuski, joka etsii kuolemaa
Released: September 27, 1985
Type: Movie
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.
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Calamari Union
Title: Calamari Union
Character: Frank
Released: February 8, 1985
Type: Movie
A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles including stray dogs and defunct streetlights.
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Viimeiset rotannahat
Title: Viimeiset rotannahat
Released: January 18, 1985
Type: Movie
Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially vulgar black humour.
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The Clan: Tale of the Frogs
Title: The Clan: Tale of the Frogs
Character: Ritsari
Released: November 30, 1984
Type: Movie
Young Alex Sammako has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakos, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps.
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Rakkauselokuva
Title: Rakkauselokuva
Character: Säikky-Nilsson
Released: November 16, 1984
Type: Movie
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Marked
Title: Marked
Released: September 15, 1984
Type: Movie
Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past. Irma attempts to commit suicide, and resurrects at the city morgue after being pronounced dead. After the incident, she wanders out direction-less, being pursued by the doctor who treated her and also a strange, tall man.
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Se minun töistäni - Matti Pellonpää
Title: Se minun töistäni - Matti Pellonpää
Released: September 13, 1984
Type: Movie
Matti Pellonpää (1951-1995) was the most talented actors of his generation. - It's hard for an actor to be unattractive. In the front of the camera you are transparent or naked.
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Aikalainen
Title: Aikalainen
Released: March 16, 1984
Type: Movie
A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Kello
Title: Kello
Character: Honest Man
Released: March 2, 1984
Type: Movie
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Nikander
Released: December 2, 1983
Type: Movie
In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who accidentally arrived at the crime scene wants to follow him, but guilt and the tightening net of the police throw a shadow over their desperate love affair.
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Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin
Title: Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin
Character: kiiluvasilmäinen pilleristi
Released: October 21, 1983
Type: Movie
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Onnentyttö
Title: Onnentyttö
Character: Kapula Kirkasoja
Released: April 21, 1983
Type: Movie
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Regina ja miehet
Title: Regina ja miehet
Character: Rex Räsänen
Released: February 18, 1983
Type: Movie
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The Worthless
Title: The Worthless
Character: Manne
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit.
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Jackpot 2
Title: Jackpot 2
Released: March 5, 1982
Type: Movie
Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.
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Pedon merkki
Title: Pedon merkki
Character: Hermonsa menettänyt sotilaskarkuri
Released: September 25, 1981
Type: Movie
Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
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Kauhea murhamies Lalli
Title: Kauhea murhamies Lalli
Character: Puhelias keihäsmies
Released: May 8, 1981
Type: Movie
TV play about the legend of Lalli.
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The Liar
Title: The Liar
Character: Fan of Chandler
Released: February 27, 1981
Type: Movie
Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.
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Ruskan jälkeen
Title: Ruskan jälkeen
Character: Jaakko Sammalsuo
Released: August 31, 1979
Type: Movie
It follows a year in the life of a family in the North-Eastern part of Finland. From the gloomy days of winter to the Mid Summer wedding festivities.
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Päivä ennen
Title: Päivä ennen
Character: Mopedimies
Released: October 24, 1978
Type: Movie
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Viimeinen savotta
Title: Viimeinen savotta
Released: November 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol.
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Antti Puuhaara
Title: Antti Puuhaara
Character: Comedian
Released: November 5, 1976
Type: Movie
In 17th-century Pohjola, young Antti Puuhaara is looking for himself, because he has grown up with no knowledge of his childhood. Two actors, the tragedian and the comedian, who were banished from Tsarist Russia to Karelia, had predicted to the crooked merchant Markki Bohattov that Antti's fate would become intertwined with his own. When Antti falls in love with Bohattov's daughter Darja, the father has to arrange for her to marry the tar merchant Arho Mustahatu.
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Kesän maku
Title: Kesän maku
Character: Hessu, tykkimies
Released: October 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Liisa, a young nurse returns to a remote island where she has spent the summer leaves in her youth. She soon gets to know some of the regular residents on the island, Pekka and Paula. During the summer party the underlying tensions mount.
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Akseli and Elina
Title: Akseli and Elina
Character: Valdemar Leppänen, "Valtu"
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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Finnish Frustrations
Title: Finnish Frustrations
Released: April 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Dances are ending. Last chance for women and men to find someone. Special prize at Tampere Film Festival 1970.
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The Boys
Title: The Boys
Character: Schoolboy (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1962
Type: Movie
When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
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Chaplinesque
Title: Chaplinesque
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Musical tale of a happy man, whose happiness the fur king tried to buy.