Olavi Tuomi

Birth : 1932-05-22, Helsinki, Finland

Death : 2006-11-14

Movies

The Man Without a Past
Location Manager
A man arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
The Man Without a Past
Chief Bureaucrat
A man arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
Seasick
Director of Photography
Eco-terrorists attack a ship carrying toxic waste.
Our Father
Director of Photography
Juhani Haavisto returns to his childhood home from the seas and is confronted by his wheelchair-bound, demented father Eino and the traumas of sexual abuse and violence he experienced as a child.
The Match Factory Girl
Gaffer
A young woman with nothing to look forward to in life discovers that she has been impregnated by a man who wants nothing to do with it.
Hyvästi ennen aamua
Director of Photography
The Farmer Has a Wife
Poliisi
The farmer now has found a wife.
The Farmer Has a Wife
Assistant Director
The farmer now has found a wife.
The Farmer Has a Wife
Director of Photography
The farmer now has found a wife.
How to Find a Wife to a Farmer
Director of Photography
Farmer wants a wife.
For the Matches
Assistant Camera
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
For the Matches
Assistant Director
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
For the Matches
Unit Production Manager
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
Ruskan jälkeen
Director of Photography
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.
The Last Lumbercamp
Director of Photography
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.
Trust
Assistant Director
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.
Trust
Kalle Fredriksson
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.
Meiltähän tämä käy
Director of Photography
Pohjantähti
Director of Photography
Love Like That
Director of Photography
About a love triangle. Unidentified takes by Arne Mattsson.
Aatamin puvussa… ja vähän Eevankin
Director of Photography
A story of an escaped convict and some funny side stories during the Finnish summer, some stolen clothes and some summer romance thrown in.
Akseli and Elina
Director of Photography
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.
Here, Beneath the North Star
Director of Photography
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.
Teerenpeliä
(uncredited)
Sisters Pirkko and Brita travel to Aulango together with their landlady Sigrid to look for wealthy spouses. At the same time brothers Erkki and Olavi hope to find girls who would love them for their own sake and not for their money.
Jengi
Director of Photography
Villin Pohjolan kulta
(uncredited)
A western set in the "Wild North".
Ihana seikkailu
Director of Photography
The Boys
Director of Photography
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...
Pinsiön parooni
Director of Photography
Pikku suorasuu
Director of Photography
Älä nuolase…
(uncredited)
Me
Director of Photography
Kertokaa se hänelle…
Director of Photography
Kertokaa se hänelle…
(uncredited)
Preludes to Ecstasy
Director of Photography
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.
Tyttö ja hattu
Olavi Tuomi (uncredited)
Olin nahjuksen vaimo
Director of Photography
While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone towards Mr. Kaski and his abilities as a man.
Minkkiturkki
Director of Photography
A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
Tähtisumua
Director of Photography
Tähtisumua
Olavi Tuomi (uncredited)
Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis!
Director of Photography
Opettajatar seikkailee
Director of Photography
An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagrin. She is intent on keeping the painting out of circulation by stealing it from an art gallery, but the aftermath turns out to be more complex than she anticipated, leading Leena to become involved in various misunderstandings featuring a gang of criminals, inept cops and false murder charges among other things.
Inspector Palmu's Error
Director of Photography
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.
Kankkulan kaivolla
Director of Photography
Scandal in the Girls' School
Director of Photography
The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the school. In addition to the loosening morals of the students, the warm relationship between two girls is a causing concern.
Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä
Director of Photography
Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.
Lumisten metsien tyttö
"B" Camera Operator
Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki.
Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen
Director of Photography
Kohtalo tekee siirron
"B" Camera Operator
Three brothers, all with their own problems that could be solved by money, try to come up with a plan to get they share of their uncle's fortune. Then a murder takes place and it is the job of a detective to find out which one of the brothers did it.
Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
Director of Photography
Vatsa sisään, rinta ulos!
Director of Photography
Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Director of Photography
Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa
Director of Photography
An ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be his stand-in to escape the ring of spies threatening his life. Many beautiful women cross Kivi's path before the spy ring is eventually crushed.
Sven Tuuva the Hero
(uncredited)
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
Sven Tuuva the Hero
Director of Photography
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä
Director of Photography
Murheenkryynin poika
Director of Photography
Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
Director of Photography
Kahden ladun poikki
"B" Camera Operator
Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä
Director of Photography
Niskavuori taistelee
"B" Camera Operator
The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.
Miriam
"B" Camera Operator
After her aunts death, young Miriam gets a position with the Allnes family. They have a son, Hans. Miriam and Hans fall in love. But the Hans mother is jealous and disapprove.
Rakas varkaani
Director of Photography
Rakas varkaani
Olavi Tuomi (uncredited)
Vääpeli Mynkhausen
Director of Photography
Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa
(uncredited)
The Unknown Soldier
Still Photographer
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.
The Unknown Soldier
Military Cook
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.
The Unknown Soldier
Director of Photography
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.
Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun
"B" Camera Operator
A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
Kiinni on ja pysyy
(uncredited)
Rakas lurjus
"B" Camera Operator
It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent by the housing commission. Abel and Jussi Siimes, two devoted haters of women, find themselves in this predicament. They need to find a subtenant quickly to avoid the possibility of the housing commission sending a woman, God forbid it, to live with them. Abel's acquaintance, an assessor, recommends his nephew Kaino as the perfect choice.
Veteraanin voitto
"B" Camera Operator
'Tuntemattoman sotilaan' tekijä Väinö Linna
Cinematography
Portrait of writer Väinö Linna. The program was completed in 1955, written by Nils-Börje Stormbom and read by Carl-Erik Creutz.
Opri
"B" Camera Operator
Pekka ja Pätkä lumimiehen jäljillä
"B" Camera Operator
Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and takeJustiina along as a bait.
Niskavuoren Aarne
"B" Camera Operator
Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In chronological order of the Niskavuori series, the film is the fourth. Aarne has married Ilona and left the house in Niskavuori, which he hosts, where his former wife Martta still lives, while the old mistress is holding the reins. Aarne and Ilona live in Helsinki, but Aarne has not been able to completely break away from Niskavuori, but keeps secretly in touch with the headmaster and gives instructions on the farm management.
Kunnioittaen
"B" Camera Operator
Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen
"B" Camera Operator
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.
Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen
(uncredited)
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.
Niskavuoren Heta
"B" Camera Operator
The White Reindeer
"B" Camera Operator
A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.
The White Reindeer
Still Photographer
A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.
Yhden yön hinta
"B" Camera Operator
The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.
Vihaan sinua – rakas
"B" Camera Operator
Kenraalin morsian
Assistant Camera
Radio tekee murron
Assistant Camera
Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book their heist to coincide. Teräsvuori gets caught but escapes from police custody to start his private investigations together with female radio colleague Eila.
Vain laulajapoikia
Assistant Camera
Kaunis Veera eli ballaadi Saimaalta
Assistant Camera
Tar Steam Princess Armada travels along Lake Saimaa to St. Petersburg and back during the years of Russian rule over Finland. The ship's crew gets tired of their sophisticated coffee maker and replaces her with Roma girl Veera, who has escaped from an arranged marriage. On the way back, mysterious passengers appear on the ship.
Tanssi yli hautojen
Second Assistant Camera
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.
Maija löytää sävelen
Assistant Camera
Tapahtui kaukana
Second Assistant Camera
Young woman flies to Lapland together with her father and his new female friend whom the daughter dislikes. On a lonely skiing-trip across the vast wilderness, the young lady ends up in a shack inhabited by two research engineers and a funny old Lapland man who sees peculiar dreams.
Tapahtui kaukana
Assistant Camera
Young woman flies to Lapland together with her father and his new female friend whom the daughter dislikes. On a lonely skiing-trip across the vast wilderness, the young lady ends up in a shack inhabited by two research engineers and a funny old Lapland man who sees peculiar dreams.
Köyhä laulaja
Second Assistant Camera
Köyhä laulaja
Assistant Camera
Köyhä laulaja
(uncredited)
Professori Masa
Second Assistant Camera
A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.
Professori Masa
Assistant Camera
A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.
Katupeilin takana
Second Assistant Camera
Isäntä soittaa hanuria
Second Assistant Camera
Aaltoska orkaniseeraa
Second Assistant Camera
Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious criminal league.
Serenaadiluutnantti
Second Assistant Camera
Prinsessa Ruusunen
Second Assistant Camera
Pikku pelimannista viulun kuninkaaksi
Assistant Camera
Pikku pelimannista viulun kuninkaaksi
Olavi Tuomi (uncredited)
Pontevat pommaripojat
Second Assistant Camera
Pontevat pommaripojat
Assistant Camera
Neljästoista vieras
Second Assistant Camera
Neljästoista vieras
Assistant Camera
Irmeli, seitsentoistavuotias
Second Assistant Camera
Onnen-Pekka
Second Assistant Camera
Onnen-Pekka
Grip
Toukokuun taika
Grip