Kalevi Kahra

Kalevi Kahra

Birth : 1927-10-04, Johannes, Viipuri, Finland [now Sovetsky, Leningrad Oblast, Russia]

Death : 1998-05-23

History

Kalevi Kahra was a Finnish actor with a career that spanned over four decades and included winning the Jussi Award for Best Actor in 1968 for his most highly-regarded performance as the character Adolf Halme in Täällä Pohjantähden alla (English: Here, Beneath the North Star). He served as Chairman of the Finnish Exhibition Union, the country's oldest and largest performing arts trade union, for over two decades, beginning in 1975. While most frequently appearing in comedic works, his biggest successes were in dramatic productions.

Profile

Kalevi Kahra

Movies

Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava
Kenraali Gustafson
New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.
Metsolat - Muistojen joulu
Arvo I. Vanhanen
Antti and Annikki have secretly decided to spend Christmas in Leppävaara. The family's entrepreneurial son Erkki has gone to Moscow with his yarn Jaakko Järvenheimo to sell tampers and ski packages to the Russians. The Metsola family (except for Erkki, Jaakko and Heikki's family) gather once again in Leppävaara to celebrate the Christmas of memories.
Elämä lyhyt, Rytkönen pitkä
Taavetti Rytkönen
Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni
Kenraali Gustafson
Relations between Sweden and Finland come to near breaking point. When further negotiations led by President Mara fail, Sergeant Körmy interferes in the course of events.
Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät
Kenraali Gustafson
The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons launch equipment and codes to neutral Finland.
Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
Kenraali Gustafson
Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.
The Winter War
Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala.
Plainlands
Teacher
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own.
Beyond the Law
Police Sergeant
On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.
The King Goes Forth to France
King of Bohemia
A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom.
The Wrestler
Pesonen
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
Hei kliffaa hei!
Eki
Vieras
A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman.
Menestyksen maku
Dr. Salmelin
Sign of the Beast
Vääpeli
Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
Hiekkakuningas
Kunnanvaltuuston jäsen Lehti
A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.
Here, Beneath the North Star
Adolf Halme
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.
Naiset, jotka minulle annoit
(uncredited)
The Unknown Soldier
Recruit
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
Hilmanpäivät
(uncredited)
The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but due to the confusion, extinguishing the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected.
Se alkoi sateessa
(uncredited)
Me tulemme taas
(uncredited)
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.