Pauli Pentti

Pauli Pentti

Nacimiento : 1958-04-02, Parkano, Finland

Muerte : 2022-02-26

Historia

Pauli Pentti was a Finnish director and producer. He also worked as a scriptwriter, lighting designer and actor. Pentti worked for a long time as assistant director to the Kaurismäki brothers. Before his death in 2022, he was working on the production of the TV series 'The Man Who Died'.

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Pauli Pentti

Películas

Emergency Call - A Murder Mystery
Producer
A father of four children gets brutally stabbed several times, with the children present in the family home. During the brutal action, his wife – Anneli Auer – is on the phone to the emergency center. Emergency Call – A Murder Mystery is a documentary film tracking down the story that unfolds after the fatal night. We hear from all emerging sides as the prosecution builds its case against the mother of four. A behind the scenes look into one of the most bizarre unsolved court cases in recent Finnish history.
Boy Upside Down
Producer
A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.
The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand
Producer
A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time
Vuosaari
Producer
Situada en un barrio del mismo nombre, "Vuosaari" es una realización hecha en distintos episodios sobre la Finlandia de hoy. Vuosaari es la última parada de la línea de metro, el principio y el final de un viaje. Historias entrelazadas sobre familias e individuos, niños y adultos (familias monoparentales, drogadicción, la influencia de la televisión y la copia de patrones televisivos en la cotidianidad juvenil). Todos necesitamos ser amados y tocados.
Enemies Within
Producer
Short film by Oskari Sipola
Cuban Serenade
Producer
Finnish documentary about Cuba.
Iron Horsemen
First Assistant Director
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.
Iron Horsemen
Sky
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.
Noche en la tierra
First Assistant Director
Película dividida en historias independientes a través de las cuales Jim Jarmusch presenta el panorama nocturno de cinco grandes ciudades (Los Angeles, Nueva York, París, Roma y Helsinki), con un taxi, y lo que en él ocurre desde el anochecer hasta el amanecer de un mismo día, y obviamente con diferentes personajes, como hilo conductor.
Zombie and the Ghost Train
Assistant Director
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?
Zombie and the Ghost Train
Story
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?
Contraté a un asesino a sueldo
Unit Production Manager
Un hombre gris y sin ganas de vivir contrata a un asesino a sueldo para que acabe con su vida, pues él carece de valor para hacerlo. Pero, inesperadamente, conoce a una mujer y cambia de idea: quiere seguir viviendo. El problema consiste en que debe encontrar al asesino que ha contratado antes de que éste ejecute su macabro encargo.
Contraté a un asesino a sueldo
First Assistant Director
Un hombre gris y sin ganas de vivir contrata a un asesino a sueldo para que acabe con su vida, pues él carece de valor para hacerlo. Pero, inesperadamente, conoce a una mujer y cambia de idea: quiere seguir viviendo. El problema consiste en que debe encontrar al asesino que ha contratado antes de que éste ejecute su macabro encargo.
La chica de la fábrica de cerillas
Assistant Director
Una joven solitaria hace un trabajo mecánico y rutinario en una fábrica de cerillas. Cuando llega a casa debe soportar a su perverso padrastro y la falta de cariño de su madre. Por las noches sale a bailar intentando divertirse y encontrar pareja, pero nunca tiene suerte.
Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Assistant Director
Los Leningrad Cowboys, un grupo de músicos siberianos, y su mánager, viajan a América buscando fama y fortuna. Mientras cruzan el país intentando llegar a una boda en México, son seguidos por el tonto del pueblo que desea unirse al grupo.
Ariel
Assistant Director
Premiada por la Sociedad de Críticos de Estados Unidos en 1990 como la mejor película extranjera, este filme es una exploración de la realidad finlandesa: desempleo, corrupción y vigilancia policial...
From Russia with Rock
Producer
A Finnish documentary about the feelings of a rock generation in the Soviet Union during Gorbachev's regime: the film follows underground bands' rise to publicity, the country's first "official" rock festival called the Moscow Rock Panorama-87 and the rocket-like ascent of Uralian Nautilus Pompilius into the starry sky of Soviet rock. Also appearing: "Аквариум", "Авиа", "Телевизор", "Браво", "Ва Банкъ", "Бригада С", "Новая Коллекция", "Мистер Твистер", "Круиз", "Нюанс", "Альянс", Uriah Heep.
Hamlet vuelve a los negocios
Assistant Director
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
The Final Arrangement
Man in Jailyard (uncredited)
Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he refuses to reveal his accomplice's name. On his first leave on prison Nieminen finds Varjola in a small town, where he has became the mayor. Varjola, of course, is shocked to see his old friend again.
Macbeth
Screenplay
A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Macbeth
Director
A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Sombras en el paraíso
Assistant Director
Nikander es un conductor de un camión de la basura, que una noche verá como su vida se complica al morirse su compañero de trabajo. Además, se enamora de Ilona, una cajera de un supermercado. Primera entrega de "La trilogía del proletariado" que se compone además de "Ariel" y "La chica de la fábrica de cerillas."
Rocky VI
Production Manager
Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren. In this 1986 send-up, Rock'y, played by Silu Seppala, goes head to head with Soviet Igor (Sakari Kuosmanen) and loses.
Ylösnousemus
Manager of Operations
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react
Ylösnousemus
Terho Oikarainen
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react
Waiting for Darkness
Writer
Matti Mäki is a young man who gets involved with a corrupt police man seeking proof that his wife, a night club singer, is cheating on him in this film noir style thriller.
Waiting for Darkness
Director
Matti Mäki is a young man who gets involved with a corrupt police man seeking proof that his wife, a night club singer, is cheating on him in this film noir style thriller.
Rare, Medium, Well Done
Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially vulgar black humour.
Crimen y castigo
Assistant Director
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Dostoievski ambientada en la Finlandia actual. Un ex-estudiante de derecho irrumpe en el apartamento de un hombre de negocios y lo mata aparentemente sin motivos. En ese momento llega Eva y aconseja al asesino que escape.
Crimen y castigo
Screenplay
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Dostoievski ambientada en la Finlandia actual. Un ex-estudiante de derecho irrumpe en el apartamento de un hombre de negocios y lo mata aparentemente sin motivos. En ese momento llega Eva y aconseja al asesino que escape.
Jackpot 2
Smoke Artist
Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.
Jackpot 2
Costume Design
Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.
Jackpot 2
Production Design
Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.
Jackpot 2
Assistant Director
Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine.
The Liar
Assistant Director
Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.
The Liar
Writer
Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.