Ari Laine

Birth : 1912-12-12, Nurmijärvi, Finland

Death : 1998-07-19

History

Ari Laine was a Finnish director and an actor.

Movies

Numbskull Emptybrook
Kuuluttaja
Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.
Here, Beneath the North Star
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.
The Truth is Merciless
Albert Oksa
Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu
Alpio
A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for the police.
Iloinen Linnanmäki
Painter
Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.
Yks' tavallinen Virtanen
Kumpulainen
Ratkaisun päivät
Kalle Nuuttila
Our Wife in Common
Väinö
Our Common Wife (1956) is a comedy directed by Valentin Vaala, based on the play by Arijoutsi. The film is set in post-war Helsinki, where the last released prisoners of war arrive. They are accompanied by Captain Erkki Lahtinen (Kosti Klemelä), who returns to his home and back to his wife Jenni (Marjatta Kallio). However, during his four-year imprisonment, Erkki has been pronounced dead and Jenni has remarried to office manager Nevamaa (Eero Eloranta).
Lain mukaan
Puukhollari
Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the previous fall, when Patron Oppman begins to approach Maria, offering her money in return for services.
Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
Pahka-Pekka
Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.
Laivaston monnit maissa
Matruusi Taneli Taivainen
Sailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.
Siltalan pehtoori
Farmhand Aaretti
The new steward of Siltala ends up falling in love with the beautiful widow of the house. Their romance is endangered by misunderstandings and the fact that the estate of Siltala is swimming in debt. And the new steward isn't quite what he seems to be.
VMV 6
Man at Dances (uncredited)
Coast guard battles the bootleggers who smuggle booze across the Gulf of Finland during the prohibition law.