Pekka Strang

Pekka Strang

Nacimiento : 1977-07-23, Helsinki, Finland

Historia

Pekka Strang is a Finnish actor and ex-artistic director of Helsinki City Theatre, where he worked 2005-2014. He is best known for his roles in Kites Over Helsinki (2001), Tom of Finland (2017) and Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019). Strang graduated from Helsinki Theatre Academy in 2001.

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Pekka Strang
Pekka Strang

Películas

The Knocking
Mikko
Tres hermanos regresan a la casa de su infancia, donde aparentemente sus padres fueron asesinados años atrás. La idea es adecentar la casa y el terreno para poder venderlo cuanto antes, pero una fuerza maligna ronda el lugar y hará lo posible para impedirlo.
Memory of Water
Major Bolin
Una valiente joven lucha por agua dulce en la Unión Escandinava, un área que se ha secado debido al desastre ambiental y un gobierno militar represivo.
El duelo del siglo
Fischer
Algunas victorias deportivas van más allá de la consecución de un título. Algunas pasan a la historia. La película sigue el enfrentamiento más dramático y legendario de la historia del ajedrez: la partida de 1978 entre Anatoly Karpov, entonces campeón del mundo, y Viktor Korchnoi, su antiguo mentor y desertor a occidente. En esta batalla entre dos ajedrecistas excepcionales, un duelo de personalidades bajo una inmensa presión psicológica, lo que está en juego es incomprensiblemente alto.
Attack on Finland
Karhu #34 Airport
La recepción del Día de la Independencia de Finlandia se interrumpe bruscamente cuando el palacio presidencial es atacado y los líderes del estado son tomados como rehenes. Max Tanner, de la Policía de Seguridad, es designado como negociador en la crisis de los rehenes, que se desarrolla como parte de un plan mayor para socavar la seguridad europea.
Yellow Sulphur Sky
Alex Rabell
In his youth, the author Frej has already found a deep connection and passion with an upper-class girl, Stella Rabell, that has lasted between them through the decades. When Stella's older brother Alex falls victim to a stabbing attack, Frej begins to reminisce about the events of decades past. Frej's memories from the bright 1970s to the present day are filled with love, jealousy, betrayal, life and death.
The Jonsson Gang
Henrik Adlerstierna
Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become law-abiding citizens and Sickan has to continue on his own. Crime broker Anita tasks him with a simple burglary, but it turns out to be something a lot bigger than Sickan thought it was. Now he needs the help of his past accomplices to carry out the most difficult heist in the history of the gang.
Lost Boys
Narrator (Voice)
Lost Boys tells the true, undisguised story of what happened ten years ago, after group of friends continued their eternal afterparty following the success of their movie premiere, Reindeerspotting: Escape From Santaland, which depicted group of drug users from Rovaniemi, Finland. The partying ends when friends of Joonas goes missing and Jani dies violently in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Joonas takes his camera and sets out to find out what happened to his friend. Was it all about drugs, women and money or do the traces lead somewhere deeper?
Los perros no llevan pantalones
Juha
Juha ha perdido a su esposa en un accidente. Años después, todavía se siente entumecido e incapaz de conectarse con las personas. Conocer a Mona, una dominatriz que lo cambia todo.
We're Not Here
Anton
When tragedy interrupts their secret seaside tryst, the prospect of going public brings two men to a standoff.
Ragged Life of Juice Leskinen
Harri Rinne
Juice Leskinen was a singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, folk artist – the father figure of Finnish rock lyrics. The most important factor of Juice's life was his love life. Everything else – booze, lyrics and fame – came as its by-product. The movie tells the story of love professional, of a man who felt deeply and extremely sensitively, but wounded many people, including himself.
A Chamber Play
Tobias
The psychoanalyst Helena receives a new patient, Alice. But the story Alice is telling gets uncomfortably close to Helena's own life.
Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre
Jonne
One woman’s desperate struggle to survive a horde of men with frail egos, who just want to explain everything to her. But the biggest horror may be closer to her than she thinks.
The Ceiling
Tuomas
A punto de divorciarse, Olavi se encierra en su chalet a orillas de un lago. Unos días más tarde, descubre que el techo de la habitación donde vive se ha caído. Su amigo Toumas le visita e insiste para hacer algo para remediar esta situación contra la voluntad de Olavi.
95
Johannes
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.
Hayflower, Quiltshoe & The Rubens Brothers
Sorkkarauta-Salonen
When Kattilakoski family goes on a week-long Summer vacation to a rented cottage, the local police constables Bigbelly and Stronglass are joyful. Finally one week of peace! Their joy doubles when they win a rent-free summer cottage for one week. What they don't know is, that these two cottages are next to each other! When the truth comes out, the constables are forced to masquerade themselves to remain incognito. Unfortunately their alter egos, artistic Rubens brothers, become an instant hit for Mother Kattilakoski. Hayflower and Quiltshoe have instant doubts about Rubens; they must be escaped bandits instead. The girls set to prove their theory.
Tom Of Finland
Touko Laaksonen / Tom of Finland
Tom of Finland, protagonizada por Pekka Strang, sigue los pasos de esta figura pionera de la cultura gay, que sufrió la opresión y homofobia durante su juventud. Volvió como héroe de la Segunda Guerra Mundia, pero la vida en Finlandia en tiempos de paz no fue como esperaba. Perseguido por su homosexualidad, se encontró sumergido en relaciones secretas y presionado para casarse con una mujer. Encontró una válvula de escape a través de su arte, especialmente por sus dibujos homoeróticos con un estilo marcado por musculados cuerpos masculinos vestidos de cuero. Su fama llegó a ser revolución en Estados Unidos bajo su nombre artístico, Tom of Finland.
Hyvää joulua
Isä
Merry Christmas is a comical interpretation of the traditional Christmas gospel set in a modern-day Helsinki
We Are the Pirates of the Roads
Vilja's father
The Rosvola family – The Robbersons drive around the country in their pirate car robbing bypassing cars of their sweets, extra food and consumer goods. Life changes for the Rosvolas when they accidentally kidnap 10-year-old Vilja, a diligent school girl. Will Vilja succeed in escaping or will she become friends with the Rosvolas´ children Hele (12 years) and Kalle (9 years)? We are the Pirates of the Roads is a funny and crazy adventurous road movie for children.
Armi Alive
Director
Armi Ratia es la mujer detrás de la empresa legendaria de diseño “Marimekko” y una celebridad en todo el mundo. Una compañía de teatro tiene la tarea de tratar de retratar la vida y obra de esta persona compleja. Armi es una empresaria de tomar riesgos, valiente y su pasión por su empresa toma en repetidas ocasiones su peaje en sus empleados, las finanzas y la familia. La empresa crece, mientras que la vida personal de Armi es sacudida por intentos de turbulencia y suicidio…
3 Simoa
Anders
A caper comedy about two friends, Simo and Lasse, who try to earn their living as burglars. But now there's also Baby Simo.
Vuosaari
Lauri
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.
Play God
Self
Play God is a humorous documentary that neither apologizes nor whines but simply recounts, with brutal honesty, the story of a failed splatter film project.
Colorado Avenue
Dåhli-Johan
In the early 1900s, emigrant Hanna returns from Colorado to Finland. In America she was known as Dollar-Hanna, but in Finland she has to endure the Civil War and live through the prohibition. Hanna's independent spirit will guide her.
Producing Adults
Miro
Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
Kites Over Helsinki
Dani Bexar
Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
Death Is a Problem for the Living
The cheapest drivers in the hearse business, gambling addict Risto Kivi and his friend Arto Niska, an 85% brainless man, have found themselves in a situation where everything has gone wrong and a fresh start is needed.
Snot and Splash
Ordinary winter holiday turns into an adventure when trash starts to rain from the sky and all the holes in the city disappear. Snot and Splash solve the mystery, and at the same time save the world from being sucked into a black hole.