Armas Jokio
Birth : 1918-02-21, Helsinki, Finland
Death : 1998-10-12
A western set in the "Wild North".
Detective
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.
Set designer
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Kalle (uncredited)
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Karolus
A film centered around a popular Finnish song book
Jooseppi Hirmu
Manne
Pikkarainen
Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.
Pikkarainen
Bailiff
Remake of the 1938 film also by Vaala is a story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living.
Pikkarainen
Pikkarainen (uncredited)
Purkka
Unveiler of portrait (uncredited)
After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.
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Pikkarainen
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The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.
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Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
Pikkarainen (uncredited)
Kaaleppi
Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery disguised as a choir boy, but is revealed by a monk Rasmus, who also desires her, and is put on trial.
Pikkarainen
(uncredited)
Guest (uncredited)
Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova Shemeikka arrives from strange lands and takes Marja away with him.
Pekka Pikkarainen
Meltola
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A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.
Juror
Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.
A Finnish comedy from the 1950's, and a remake of director Valentin Vaala's earlier film The Substitute Husband (1936).
Pikkarainen
Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. As a result they meet an orphan boy named Otto while working as a park nannies. They offer to shelter the boy, but at the same time the father Antti, who has returned from the sea, is looking for his son together with Miss Raikas.
Aleksi Lindman
Sutki
Jaakko 'Moterni-Jaska' Naskali
(uncredited)
After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking around the now deserted island, he meets a beautiful woman camping alone and sunbathing in the nude on the beach. A hot romance flares up between the worker and the more upper-class married lady, lasting through the light-filled nights of the whole summer week until the woman's much older husband returns to the island the next weekend.
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Pekka is given the task of renting a summer place, but real estate agent Aadolf Muikku tricks him into buying a villa.
Jooseppi
The film tells the story of the romance between the timber rafters and widow Kaisa, her daughter Satu and Katri from Karkela. Problems are caused by the men in the village, especially the Master of Karkela, who has his own plans for widow's land.
Pikku-Aleksi
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A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.
Pikku-Aleksi
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Jäärä
Journalist Sanni visits the countryside to write about the timber industry. Looking for a room she is immediately thrust into the merry community of loggers, always up for a song, but one of them, Hurma-Jussi, is a little too persistent. Luckily, she is “saved” by the handsome lumberjack Eräs.
In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.
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Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious criminal league.
Pohjola
The S/S Vellamo heads to Alexandria with Kaarina, the daughter of the ship's owner Hallerman, on board. As Kaarina trades places with the family's housekeeper Marja, first mate Yrjö takes a liking to Marja whom he believes to be miss Hallerman. Meanwhile Kaarina, pretending to be a member of the cleaning staff, starts getting close with lower ranking officer Kalle Aaltonen.