Marja-Leena Hukkanen

Birth : 1959-01-01,

Movies

The Other Side of Hope
Still Photographer
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Towards the Day of Doom
Script Supervisor
Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first one, drum artist Monkki Mähönen arrives for a renovation job at his old band mate's summer villa. Second story revolves around wannabe motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni who are being humiliated at a village shop. Thirdly in the 1960s, a star reporter Erkki "Likasanko" Sysimetsä starts writing a once in a lifetime story about the womanizing of Arvo Hakala, a pipe organ repair man. In the fourth story, a fantasy and sci-fi film director Kurt "Kurre" von Riikonen is looking for financing of his upcoming movie Excalibur IV with catastrophic consequences.
Towards the Day of Doom
Still Photographer
Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first one, drum artist Monkki Mähönen arrives for a renovation job at his old band mate's summer villa. Second story revolves around wannabe motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni who are being humiliated at a village shop. Thirdly in the 1960s, a star reporter Erkki "Likasanko" Sysimetsä starts writing a once in a lifetime story about the womanizing of Arvo Hakala, a pipe organ repair man. In the fourth story, a fantasy and sci-fi film director Kurt "Kurre" von Riikonen is looking for financing of his upcoming movie Excalibur IV with catastrophic consequences.
The Foundry
Costume Design
Workers of a foundry eat their lunch and watch Lumiére brothers film Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).
Dogs Have No Hell
Continuity
A short film by Aki Kaurismäki. It was shot in 2001 as a test before filming The Man Without a Past, featuring much of the same cast. Markku Peltola plays a man who leaves his company and boards a train to Moscow with the woman he is going to marry.
The Man Without a Past
Continuity
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
Still Photographer
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.
Juha
Costume Design
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
The Collector
Still Photographer
Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.
I Hired a Contract Killer
Still Photographer
After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.
I Hired a Contract Killer
Script Supervisor
After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.
The Match Factory Girl
Costume Design
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.
The Match Factory Girl
Still Photographer
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.
The Match Factory Girl
Script Supervisor
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.
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Still Photographer
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.
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Script Supervisor
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.
Cha Cha Cha
Kiosk Seller
A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), 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!
Ariel
Still Photographer
Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things don't go as planned...
Ariel
Script Supervisor
Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things don't go as planned...
Hamlet Goes Business
Still Photographer
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
Hamlet Goes Business
Script Supervisor
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
Hamlet Goes Business
Restaurant Customer (uncredited)
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
The Final Arrangement
Photographer (uncredited)
Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he refuses to reveal his accomplice's name. On his first leave on prison Nieminen finds Varjola in a small town, where he has became the mayor. Varjola, of course, is shocked to see his old friend again.
Macbeth
Still Photographer
A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Thru the Wire
Girl
A member of the rock band Leningrad Cowboys escapes from prison and starts looking for his girlfriend.
Shadows in Paradise
Woman in Restaurant (uncredited)
An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
Shadows in Paradise
Script Supervisor
An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
Shadows in Paradise
Still Photographer
An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
Ylösnousemus
Still Photographer
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react
Calamari Union
Still Photographer
Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank (inspired by Frank Armoton) apart from a single confrere, Pekka. Collectively the Franks and Pekka are unhappy with the perceived oppression they face in their district of Helsinki, Kallio, and decide to move to another, Eira, imagining it to be an unspoiled place where people can live lives of dignity. The journey is an ironic one given that both districts are not so far apart. In this spirit, their journey across the city takes on epic proportions with each of the travellers gradually falling by the wayside due to such travails as marriage, work, and death. In its entirety the film is a wry discussion of humanity within a system that regards humans as subservient components.
Calamari Union
Script Supervisor
Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank (inspired by Frank Armoton) apart from a single confrere, Pekka. Collectively the Franks and Pekka are unhappy with the perceived oppression they face in their district of Helsinki, Kallio, and decide to move to another, Eira, imagining it to be an unspoiled place where people can live lives of dignity. The journey is an ironic one given that both districts are not so far apart. In this spirit, their journey across the city takes on epic proportions with each of the travellers gradually falling by the wayside due to such travails as marriage, work, and death. In its entirety the film is a wry discussion of humanity within a system that regards humans as subservient components.