Anssi Mänttäri
Nacimiento : 1941-12-18, Sippola, Finland
Writer
A movie about a movie that was never made.
Director
A movie about a movie that was never made.
Himself
A movie about a movie that was never made.
Director
ROUCH meets Rublev! Anssi Mänttäri’s and Heikki Takkinen’s new joint direction work is an ethnographically fascinating documentary about rituals across the border. It takes us to Estonia, to the small village of Saatse where Setos celebrate their traditional folk festival.
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A woman meets a man who tells her that they have known each other 11 years ago and wishes to take her out. Woman does not recall him and in her mind she thinks back and goes through several random meetings from the past, yet he does not seem to be any of those men from her past. Woman continues the relationship and tries to solve the mystery, which at the end is revealed.
Tapsa
The egocentric author Jalo Rautakumpu welcomes a visitor to his cabin in the Lappish wilderness. After sauna and a bottle of alcohol, the friendship is formed. But friends can be bad for business.
Writer
The egocentric author Jalo Rautakumpu welcomes a visitor to his cabin in the Lappish wilderness. After sauna and a bottle of alcohol, the friendship is formed. But friends can be bad for business.
Director
The egocentric author Jalo Rautakumpu welcomes a visitor to his cabin in the Lappish wilderness. After sauna and a bottle of alcohol, the friendship is formed. But friends can be bad for business.
Costume Design
Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.
Production Design
Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.
Palotarkastaja
Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.
Writer
Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.
Director
Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.
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This is a sad story of Eros and Psyche. Sadder than the ancient myth that was only a dream after all. In my story, the characters learn nothing.
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Finnish documentary about Cuba.
Script Editor
Finnish documentary about Cuba.
Producer
Finnish documentary about Cuba.
Director
Finnish documentary about Cuba.
Producer
Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.
Writer
Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.
Director
Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.
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Ossi (Antti Litja) hasn't seen his daughter for over ten years. Suddenly she arrives to figure out what kind of person her father is and why she wasn't good enough for him.
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Ossi (Antti Litja) hasn't seen his daughter for over ten years. Suddenly she arrives to figure out what kind of person her father is and why she wasn't good enough for him.
Writer
Anni wants a new mommy for herself and a new wife for her dad. But dad has forgotten how to find a wife and needs Anni's help.
Director
Anni wants a new mommy for herself and a new wife for her dad. But dad has forgotten how to find a wife and needs Anni's help.
Producer
When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implications for the rest of their lives.
Writer
When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implications for the rest of their lives.
Director
When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implications for the rest of their lives.
Executive Producer
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Music
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react
Producer
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react
Screenplay
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react
Director
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react
Tied Man
En Helsinki, dieciocho hombres, diecisiete de los cuales se llaman Frank, deciden abandonar el barrio de trabajadores en el que llevan una vida triste y gris para instalarse en un barrio al otro lado de la ciudad, cerca del mar, que representa para ellos una especie de "El Dorado".
Original Music Composer
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.
Producer
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.
Writer
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.
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.
Director
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.
Producer
Young Alex Sammako has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakos, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps.
Kirurgi / Kuvajainen ikkunassa
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A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.
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A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.
Director
A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.
Producer
Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self wants her to marry another man than his sober personality wants.
Producer
A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.
Screenplay
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Michael
A middle-aged man becomes deeply involved with the affairs and criminal connections of a mysterious girl.
Production Manager
A middle-aged man becomes deeply involved with the affairs and criminal connections of a mysterious girl.
Assistant Location Manager
Laila es una inocente niña Lappish y la única hija de un pastor de renos. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Los rescates de Laila estrellaron al piloto de combate alemán Hans y los dos desarrollaron cálidos sentimientos el uno por el otro durante su convalecencia. Años más tarde, después de la guerra, Hans regresa a Laponia como fotógrafo independiente y logra atraer a Laila para que huya con él a la capital, Helsinki, para comenzar una carrera como modelo fotográfico, para disgusto de su padre tradicional, Aslak. Sin embargo, después de la felicidad inicial, Hans abandona a Laila y el estilo de vida decadente de una gran ciudad envía su vida a una espiral descendente.
Head of Production
The events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style.
Production Manager
Öykky - vasemmistolainen opiskelija (uncredited)
Jussi, a student admired by all women, is inadvertently selected to represent both left-wing and right-wing parties in the parliamentary elections. All Jussi cares about is the beautiful, blonde Irmeli.
Special Effects Man (uncredited)
Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.
