Ville Virtanen

Ville Virtanen

Born: August 19, 1961
in Espoo, Finland
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Ville Virtanen (born August 19, 1961) is a Finnish actor.

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Never Alone
Title: Never Alone
Character: Abraham Stiller
Released: January 17, 2025
Type: Movie
1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.
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Title: Utö
Character: Anton Kairamo
Released: January 18, 2024
Type: TV
An idyllic island in the Finnish Archipelago is suddenly cut off from outside world, as a mysterious force takes over. Without food, electricity or safety, the islanders are faced with their deepest fears. What will you do to survive?
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Thank You, I'm Sorry
Title: Thank You, I'm Sorry
Character: Timo
Released: December 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Suddenly alone during the late stages of her pregnancy, Sara receives an unexpected lifeline when Linda, her estranged older sister, arrives.
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Title: Trolltider – legenden om Bergatrollet
Character: Rolf
Released: December 1, 2023
Type: TV
Trolltider – the legend of the Bergatrollet is SVT's Christmas calendar 2023, directed by Lisa Farzaneh from a script by Ola Norén and Roland Ulvselius. The series is a "reboot" to SVT's Christmas calendar Trolltider from 1979 with partly the same characters but a new story.
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Munch
Title: Munch
Character: Carl
Released: January 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Edvard Munch was one of the most important artists in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. His motif Skrik (The Scream), repeated in several techniques, became part of the 20th-century world subconsciousness – an image of fear and loneliness most people probably know, even if they have no idea who created it.
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Title: Missing People
Released: November 7, 2022
Type: TV
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Kikka!
Title: Kikka!
Character: Irwin Goodman
Released: October 12, 2022
Type: Movie
Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in completely to her dream of becoming a singer. Despite the scorn of the male-dominated music world, Paula recognizes the star in Kirsi and together they get her a recording contract. Kikka's career takes off when her nipple is accidentally flashed on a TV show. Kikka immediately becomes a national celebrity and one of Finland's best-selling female artists.
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Title: Transport
Character: Hevosyrittäjä
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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Bordertown: The Mural Murders
Title: Bordertown: The Mural Murders
Character: Kari Sorjonen
Released: October 27, 2021
Type: Movie
A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge.
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Knocking
Title: Knocking
Character: Kaj
Released: October 8, 2021
Type: Movie
After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night.
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The Jonsson Gang
Title: The Jonsson Gang
Character: Kantor Veikko Kusela
Released: October 7, 2021
Type: Movie
Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become law-abiding citizens and Sickan has to continue on his own. Crime broker Anita tasks him with a simple burglary, but it turns out to be something a lot bigger than Sickan thought it was. Now he needs the help of his past accomplices to carry out the most difficult heist in the history of the gang.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Released: January 26, 2020
Type: Movie
This melancholy, dryly comedic Finnish-language film is the fourth of a five-part series on minority languages in Sweden.
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Bergman Revisited
Title: Bergman Revisited
Released: December 21, 2019
Type: Movie
As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy has affected Swedish filmmakers of today. Bergman Revisited is a compilation of six very different films, spanning from Bergmanesque drama to animated critical satire.
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X&Y
Title: X&Y
Character: The Famous Actor's Psychologist
Released: November 23, 2018
Type: Movie
An artist has chosen a famous male actor for them together, in the context of a feature film, to deconstruct themselves and their invading roles. They engage in a boundless play with their surroundings in an exploration of identity, male and female.
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Bayonet
Title: Bayonet
Character: Jaakko
Released: November 9, 2018
Type: Movie
Miguel “Bayoneta” Galíndez is a retired boxer from Tijuana who finds himself living in a cramped flat in Finland. As his future begins to look up, a desire for redemption draws him back into the ring.
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Title: The Truth Will Out
Character: Eddie Eriksson
Released: August 21, 2018
Type: TV
Could Sweden’s most notorious killer be innocent? Detective Peter Wendel struggles to hold together his fractured psyche – and mismatched cold case team – while uncovering the truth of a cryptic message.
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Scenes in the Night
Title: Scenes in the Night
Character: Henrik
Released: January 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to meet his lover Paula.
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The Eternal Road
Title: The Eternal Road
Character: John Hill
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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Heroes of the Baltic Sea
Title: Heroes of the Baltic Sea
Character: Magnus Fleming
Released: April 16, 2017
Type: Movie
The movie version of the 2016 adventure series Heroes of the Baltic Sea.
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Title: Rebecka Martinsson
Character: Lars Pohjanen
Released: March 8, 2017
Type: TV
Rebecka Martinsson from Kiruna has not really found herself despite her big successes at a law firm in Stockholm. When a friend from her childhood passes away, Rebecka returns to Kiruna where she's drawn into a thrilling hunt for a killer.
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The Other Side of Hope
Title: The Other Side of Hope
Character: Judicial Authority
Released: February 3, 2017
Type: Movie
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
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Law of the Land
Title: Law of the Land
Character: Lasse
Released: January 20, 2017
Type: Movie
A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of the northern Finnish-Swedish border.
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Title: Heroes of the Baltic Sea
Character: Magnus Fleming
Released: December 26, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Bordertown
Character: Kari Sorjonen
Released: October 16, 2016
Type: TV
The story of DI Kari Sorjonen of the Serious Crime Unit in Lappeenranta, his family, and his investigations into a variety of harrowing homicides around the border area.
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The Girl King
Title: The Girl King
Character: Doctor Van Wullen
Released: December 11, 2015
Type: Movie
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
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White People
Title: White People
Character: FK
Released: October 30, 2015
Type: Movie
The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an underground prison to await deportation. Will they escape? What will be the cost of freedom?
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Talvisydän
Title: Talvisydän
Character: Eikka
Released: September 9, 2015
Type: Movie
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Flocking
Title: Flocking
Character: Ian
Released: February 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Inspired by true events. A 14-year-old girl reports that she was raped, but is not believed. The entire village turns against her and her family.
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Title: Thicker Than Water
Character: Fleming
Released: January 27, 2014
Type: TV
The beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by Anna-Lisa and her son Oskar. Anna-Lisa has summoned her daughter Jonna, an actress, and son Lasse, an opportunist, to the island. It is the first time in years that they are together again. When Anna-Lisa is found dead one morning, the siblings learn that she had terminal cancer: Her will stipulates that all three siblings must run the family B&B together for a year, or they won't inherit it at all. It is a mother’s last effort to reunite her children. But it will also confront them with the family’s unsolved past, present forces of attraction, and a very dark secret buried in a most unfortunate place...
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No Thank You
Title: No Thank You
Character: Matti Valkonen
Released: January 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only interested in playing computer games, dressed in worn out fleece pants. For him, a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won't help, Heli resorts in direct, and increasingly direct action - in vain.
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Ella and Friends
Title: Ella and Friends
Character: Virastosetä
Released: December 28, 2012
Type: Movie
A young girl and her friends try to save their small rural school from being demolished to make way for a race track.
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Love and Other Troubles
Title: Love and Other Troubles
Character: Taisto Hietalahti
Released: January 27, 2012
Type: Movie
Ville, 25, is a downbeat former child star who's successfully avoided his womanizing rock 'n' roll dad for years. Everything changes when his dad moves into his flat and they both fall in love with the same American line-dancing teacher.
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Where Once We Walked
Title: Where Once We Walked
Character: Kapten Halonen
Released: October 28, 2011
Type: Movie
The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.
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Vares: The Kiss of Evil
Title: Vares: The Kiss of Evil
Character: Arto Ronimus
Released: January 6, 2011
Type: Movie
A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.
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Beyond
Title: Beyond
Character: Kimmo Moilanen
Released: December 10, 2010
Type: Movie
One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This news takes her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life. Leena has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark childhood. She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.
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Priest of Evil
Title: Priest of Evil
Character: Commissioner Mäki
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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Under the North Star II
Title: Under the North Star II
Character: Rautajärvi
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
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Apinajuttu
Title: Apinajuttu
Character: Jensse
Released: March 11, 2010
Type: Movie
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Bad Family
Title: Bad Family
Character: Mikael Lindgren
Released: January 29, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.
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Sauna
Title: Sauna
Character: Eerik
Released: October 17, 2008
Type: Movie
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.
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Lacrimosa
Title: Lacrimosa
Character: Jan Saras
Released: January 7, 2008
Type: Movie
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Christmas Story
Title: Christmas Story
Character: Henrik
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids Nikolas to continue making presents for Christmas. Gradually, however, Nikolas wins Iisakki's trust. Together they begin to look after the Christmas traditional that Nikolas has begun. When the aged Iisakki has to leave Nikolas and move away, the tradition of Christmas presents is once again at risk. Thankfully, Nikolas comes up with a solution that brings children joy every Christmas, even continuing to today.
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Black Ice
Title: Black Ice
Character: Ilkka
Released: October 19, 2007
Type: Movie
Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same time she is planning the best way to revenge her husband and his lover.
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The Year of the Wolf
Title: The Year of the Wolf
Character: Leif
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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Jackpot
Title: Jackpot
Character: Passat-äijä
Released: February 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
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Promise
Title: Promise
Character: Eläinlääkäri
Released: December 2, 2005
Type: Movie
The film tells about members of Finnish women's Lotta Service during the Second World War through the eyes of three young women.
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Title: Nollatoleranssi
Character: Tapani Virta
Released: November 8, 2004
Type: TV
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Producing Adults
Title: Producing Adults
Character: Marriage Councillor
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
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Dog Nail Clipper
Title: Dog Nail Clipper
Character: Foreman Luti
Released: February 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
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Young Gods
Title: Young Gods
Character: Jere's father Juhani
Released: October 24, 2003
Type: Movie
Taavi,the enigmatic 18-year-old lead, has just inherited his long-deceased wealthy parents home and estate. It is high school graduation and Taavi's birthday, and after his fiends greet him au natural and are arrested, Taavi invites his friends to the mansion for a wild party. Taavi lives with a recording camera to his eye, a machine that allows his to keep interpersonal distance from everyone. Among his friends are Jere who considers himself a woman's man, Markus (who appears the well-adjusted one, and chubby, pierced Sami whose sexuality is ambiguous. The party gets wild, guests sleep around, and Taavi records it all!
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Title: Irtiottoja
Character: Palander
Released: September 29, 2003
Type: TV
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Upswing
Title: Upswing
Character: Erik
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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Title: Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood
Character: Veli Miettinen
Released: February 29, 2000
Type: TV
Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja as they tackle with personal life problems and try to keep their relationship purely professional.
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A Respectable Tragedy
Title: A Respectable Tragedy
Character: Tauno Saarinen
Released: September 18, 1998
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people.
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Lunastus
Title: Lunastus
Released: April 25, 1997
Type: Movie
In a small village in Eastern Finland in 1918, Patrick, who has taken care of the chaplain, teacher and physician, has been filled with loneliness and brutal spirit of work for five years.
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Title: Kotikatu
Character: Arttu Laakso
Released: August 24, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: The Hobbits
Character: Legolas
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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Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Title: Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Character: Presidentin palvelija
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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Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Title: Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Character: President's Servant
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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Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
Title: Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
Character: Valkoisten kersantti
Released: November 2, 1990
Type: Movie
The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
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The Winter War
Title: The Winter War
Character: Jaakko Rajala
Released: November 30, 1989
Type: Movie
Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala.
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Title: Hymyhuulet
Character: various
Released: September 26, 1987
Type: TV
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Ursula
Title: Ursula
Character: Mårten
Released: September 12, 1986
Type: Movie
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Title: Fakta homma
Character: Mies elokuvateatterissa
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.
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Title: Fakta homma
Character: Vartija
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.
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Title: Fakta homma
Character: Portsari
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.
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Title: Fakta homma
Character: Myyjä
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.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Gyldenstern
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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Svalta
Title: Svalta
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A family's vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they're on is inhabited by a serial killer.
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Labrintus
Title: Labrintus
Character: Dr. Yershov
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A crew enters a mysterious maze buried underneath an abandoned Soviet research facility where supernatural disturbances occur.