Vieno Saaristo

Vieno Saaristo

Birth : 1936-08-14, Ilmajoki, Finland

Death : 2016-12-01

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Vieno Saaristo

Movies

Above Dark Waters
salmiakkimummo
A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.
Stars Above
Tyyne 70-luvulla
A story of a house and three women of different generations who inhabit it through the years.
Twisted Roots
Mummi
In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.
Dog Nail Clipper
Taimi Kuosmanen
Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
On the Road to Emmaus
Ranen äiti
A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.
Pieniä valheita
Sairaanhoitaja
The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator.
Tuomas Murasen rikos
Stella Muranen
Zombie and the Ghost Train
Äiti
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?
Burning Angel
Tuulikki's mother
A newly graduated nurse Tuulikki starts a job in a closed ward of a psychiatric hospital. Her innocence is being challenged by both her colleagues and patients. A new patient Katariina has a fire burning deep inside of her.
April Is the Cruellest Month
Sari's Mother