Elsa Turakainen

Elsa Turakainen

Birth : 1904-08-08, Helsinki, Finland

Death : 1992-02-07

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Elsa Turakainen

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Ruskan jälkeen
Maija Sammalsuo
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.
Here, Beneath the North Star
Henna Leppänen
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.
Turkasen tenava!
Maija's Mother
Pinsiön parooni
Lyyti Holopainen
Älä nuolase…
Agda von Sadelheim
Kultainen vasikka
Player Kirsti
Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.
Myöhästynyt hääyö
Lilli Sorjanen
Otto and Kaija have celebrated their surprise wedding, but after a coctail party nothing between them is the same as Otto does not remember what actually happened, and the mess is ready when Otto's American uncle who hates women comes for a visit.
Scandal in the Girls' School
Hilja Forslund
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.
Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen
Aino Suominen
Punainen viiva
Lady (uncredited)
The story of the first elections in Finland
Vatsa sisään, rinta ulos!
Hildur
Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä
Gunilla Lillukka
Niskavuori taistelee
Loviisa Niskavuori
The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.
Vääpeli Mynkhausen
Maalin
Pikku Ilona ja hänen karitsansa
Mrs. Orpana
Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun
Anni (uncredited)
A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
Onni etsii asuntoa
Mrs. Kampero (uncredited)
Opri
Akviliina
Kasarmin tytär
Mrs. Viiki
Niskavuoren Aarne
Loviisa
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
Selma Vuorinen
The Witch
Leena
An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy...
Komppanian neropatit
Hilda Kantola
Lännen lokarin veli
Hilkka
Coal miner Esaias Coolman returns to Finland from his working years in America.
Kenraalin morsian
Sofia Tissari
Kaunis Veera eli ballaadi Saimaalta
Tolka Prtsjenski
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.
Katupeilin takana
(uncredited)
Isäntä soittaa hanuria
Josefiina Pakarinen
Aaltoska orkaniseeraa
(uncredited)
Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious criminal league.
Prinsessa Ruusunen
Kehrääjä-Liisa
Ruma Elsa
Vivi Kassel
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.
Neljästoista vieras
Onnen-Pekka
Hedvig Björn
Toukokuun taika
Adlerfeldt
Kultamitalivaimo
'Pampula'
Two conservative men are surprised when they find out that their wives are actually athletes.
Hedelmätön puu
Mrs. Nilsson (uncredited)
The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.
Matkalla seikkailuun
Keskusneiti Lehtonen
Film about personnel of the company which have developed a serum which will make you younger and stronger.
Suomisen Olli yllättää
Aino Suominen
Olli Suominen goes through the usual troubles of a teenager. After being in the war he is trying to find his place in the society. And the relations with his family is in turmoil. He also finds the sweet life in restaurants more exhilarating than being in the school and reading books for the forthcoming student exams.
Suomisen Olli rakastuu
Aino Suominen
Olli Suominen fancies his teacher and other shenanigans.
Sylvi
Alma Halling
Suomisen taiteilijat
Aino Suominen
Synnitön lankeemus
Sofia Blom
Tyttö astuu elämään
Syntynyt terve tyttö
Janitor's wife
Suomisen Ollin tempaus
Aino Suominen
Oi, aika vanha, kultainen...!
Agnes Kataja
Suomisen perhe
Aino Suominen
The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family.
Perheen musta lammas
(uncredited)
Lapseni on minun...
(uncredited)
Elsa lives in a childless marriage. But she longs for a baby. She is drawn to a man that could be the father of her long awaited child.
Punahousut
Alma Korpio
The tarragon regiment moving to the small town charms the women of the locality. Only trade counsellor Ottilia Mähönen considers them brutal barbarians and is horrified when her daughter Irja gives her room to cavalry master Osmo Kyrö who needs accommodation.
Seitsemän veljestä
Venla
Based on a novel by Aleksis Kivi. Follows the story of seven brothers of Jukola in 19th century Finland.
Halveksittu
Mrs. Laaksonen (uncredited)
Eteenpäin – elämään
(uncredited)
Hätävara
Mrs. Leinjoki (uncredited)
The priest's daughter, Vappu Kankare first irritates and then admires the ambitious habitant, Jalmar "Jali" Kinnunen. After the studies, Vappu and Jali get married, but the marriage is disappointing.
Syyllisiäkö?
(uncredited)