Lasse Karkjärvi

Lasse Karkjärvi

Birth : 1958-08-30, Hyvinkää, Finland

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Lasse Karkjärvi

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The Potato Venture
Untamo's Father
A young Start-up entrepreneur tries to start importing potato to 17th century Finland. The new class of bourgeoisie is emerging and shaking up the stagnant spirit of the era. But nobody believes in potato, and the Turnip-Sellers Guild decides to squash the disturbance caused by the young entrepreneurs. In the end, the bumpy road of potatoes grows into mythical proportions.
August Fools
Poliisi
An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.
Play It All
poliisin atk-ekspertti Mika Niemi
A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.
Takatöölö Story
Toimittaja Hillo
A reporter starts investigating a murder while making a documentary about a 60's youth gang.
The New Adventures of That Kiljunen Family
Konstaapeli Laatikainen
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.
Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
Päivystävä poliisi
The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.
Fakta homma
Heikki "Heka" Kaasinen