Antti Virmavirta

Antti Virmavirta

Nacimiento : 1959-03-07, Harjavalta, Finland

Perfil

Antti Virmavirta

Películas

Palimpsest
Two elderly roommates at a hospice are randomly selected for a Gene-Therapy Trial that rejuvenates their bodies, making them younger. Given a second chance at love, lust and life, with the memories of their past life intact, they now must find their place in a new world that has left them behind.
There Will Be Spring
Mitrei
Late 40’s after the war. Strange languaged and religioned immigrants fleeing from Karelia region are hated by Finns in the countryside. 19-year old Anni is living her life wanting to forget the war and hostility surrounding her. Falling in love with a man who hasn’t left fighting, threatens Anni’s whole family’s future and hope for mutual forgiveness..
Ricky Rapper And The Strongman
Guru
Ricky and Nelly decide to take part in arm wrestling competition during their summer holiday.
Fuego en el corazón
Kalevi
Anni, hija de una familia adinerada y solía asegurarse la vida, se enamora de Veikko, un inválido de guerra de la Guerra de Continuación. Anni deja atrás su pasado y comienza a llevar la vida de una pionera, en los bosques salvajes del norte de Karelia, en una granja de asentamiento. Después de un comienzo optimista, el destino aplasta los sueños de Anni y su amor por Veikko se pone a prueba.
Linnan juhlat
Päivystäjä
In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only plane, but the Laplander Jallu agrees to drive him 1200 km (745 miles) south.
The Eternal Road
Mäki
Basado en hechos reales. Jussi Ketola, regresa a Finlandia desde la gran depresión golpeará a Estados Unidos solo para enfrentar una creciente agitación política en su país. Una noche de verano de 1930, matones nacionalistas secuestraron violentamente a Ketola de su casa. Golpeado y obligado a caminar por el Camino Eterno hacia la Rusia soviética, donde la crueldad parece no tener fin, su único sueño es volver a toda costa con su familia.
El otro lado de la esperanza
Police at the Station
Helsinki. El joven Khaled llega oculto en un barco de carga procedente de Siria. Su solicitud de asilo es rechazada, pero decide quedarse de todos modos. Mientras, un gris comercial cincuentón llamado Wikström decide cambiar su vida y abrir un decadente restaurante. Sus caminos se cruzarán cuando una tarde Wikhström se encuentra a Khaled en la puerta de su restaurante y, emocionado, decide ofrecerle techo, comida y trabajo. Pero el sueño del chico es encontrar a su hermana, que también huyó de Siria.
Tatu and Patu: An Oddsville Christmas
Announcer
A young girl and her two friends from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville make plans to celebrate Christmas together, but when she is late to pick them up from the train station, the pair wander out on their own leading to a delightful series of hilarious mishaps, inventions, and flights of fancy - until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.
The Mine
Olli Salo
Un joven y ambicioso funcionario Jussi se encuentra a cargo de la licencia ambiental de una enorme mina de níquel y uranio en el norte de Finlandia. La mina Talvivaara introduce un nuevo método de recolección de minerales, a la vez implica la creación de puestos de trabajo en una de las zonas más pobres de la región. Jussi descubre poco a poco que está siendo llevado por mal camino y que el nuevo método tiene graves inconvenientes no previstos. La mina está causando peligros ambientales que están siendo silenciado.
Seamstress
EK:n / Valpon etsivä (voice)
A documentary film about Martta Koskinen, the last executed woman in Finland during the war in 1943. Martta was a Seamstress who lived in Helsinki during the Second World War. She was one of the post-civil war (in 1918) generation for whom the war had meant a disappointment in the system and failure in unity of the Finnish nation. The legacy of the civil war had left systems of persecution in place for those with socialist ideals. Martta and her fellow revolutionaries were determined to continue the resistance movement although they knew that at worst it could cost their lives. Martta was imprisoned twice before she was shot. She was an idealist, whose seemingly harmless, naive beliefs in peace and justice were the most dangerous traits a person could have at the time.
Raspberry Boat Refugee
Neighbor #2
Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspberry Boat Refugee is a comedy about cultural differences in the Nordic countries, their nationalism and, not least, prejudices about our neighbours. It also proves how futile it is to try to escape oneself.
Body Fat Index of Love
Stigun isä
Timo Stigu Mertala is a celebrated, award-winning adman, and sworn to singlehood. He is a well known figure in the Helsinki nightlife.
Vares: Tango of Darkness
Insinööri Erkki Vehmanen
The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his back. The biggest manhunt in the county faded away without results. Jussi Vares gets a phone call from a down-and-out journalist; the informant tells Vares he knows the murderer. Then the journalist disappears without a trace and Vares has to face the biggest challenge of his career. To add insult to the injury, an old acquaintance Veikko Hopea gets his first prison furlough…
Hush
Olli, Sakarin isä
Sakari and Veera get engaged, madly in love. Not long after, Veera asks Sakari to help her in a matter relating to her father, and in a way that completely shocks Sakari. He does everything in his power to stop her from pursuing her plan. But before the story is over, Sakari will be been forced to make choices he thought he'd never have to face.
Frozen Hell
Narrator (voice)
During the Continuation War, there were dozens of POW camps in Finland. About the third of 70,000 prisoners died during the first year of war. Most of the archives of the camps were destroyed and the majority of the war crimes were never revealed.
Garbage Prince
Markku Laakso
Jed (19) walks out on his former life, without destination, without explanation, and gets on a train. He ends up by happenstance in a small eastern town in Finland where he soon comes face to face with the daily rigors of independent life. Coping becomes a challenge for him almost to the point of being an obsession. Of all the people in town, Jed seems to constantly run across the prickly and quick-witted Lulu (17). Gradually, without either of them admitting it, their relationship changes from bickering, picking on each other and a battle of wills to friendship, and as can happen, finally to love.
Divorcio a la finlandesa
Timo
Juhani, terapeuta, 35 años, y Paula Helin, empresaria, 34 años, deciden divorciarse de forma civilizada, mudarse a una casa nueva cada uno y vender su domicilio conyugal. Pero cuando Paula invita a su ligue de una noche, Marco, a la casa, Juhani se venga contratando a una prostituta, Nina, a su hermanastro y a un chulo, Wolffi, para que haga de su nueva novia y echar así a Paula de la casa. (FILMAFFINITY)
One Foot Under
Lehtojoki
Visa Vuorio (Tobias Zilliacus), a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live. Because of this, he is a member of a therapeutical support group for people suffering from terminal diseases. Visa's life changes when a young female reporter, Hanna Manninen (Helena Vierikko), arrives at the support group offering to write a series of articles about Visa's life story.
The Novelist
Ilmari Vouvila
8 Days to Premiere
Rehtori
8 Days to Premiere is a love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season´s grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura, an actress who due to her debilitating stage fright has ended up as the prompter for the play, gets a chance of a lifetime. There are 8 days to the premiere.
Pearls and Pigs
Sika
When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.
Upswing
Ilpo Heino
Katri y Janne son jóvenes, guapos y tienen una buena situación económica. El grupo de amigos de Katri y Janne practican viajes de aventura. Es importante estar un paso delante de los demás y vivir experiencias extremas. Katri y Janne llevan mucho tiempo sin compartir juntos tales experiencias. En la fiesta de su nuevo jefe Erik Stein, Janne conoce a un agente de viajes, que le ofrece una nueva manera de viajar. La empresa IH-tours organiza viajes de aventura a otras realidades en el país: 1) sin techo en Espoo, 2) trabajador por turnos en Vantaa o 3) una vida diaria como desempleado en el barrio de Jakomäki. Janne y Katri quieren mostrar que se atreven, y eligen la tercera opción, el de los cesantes. ¿Como se acostumbrarán a la nueva vida diaria en la cual el pan de cada día no esta garantizado?. ¿Qué queda de una persona, cuando se le quita todo lo superficial? En Jakomäki, Katri y Janne emprenden una aventura que ninguno de sus amigos ha vivido.
Mosku - The Last of His Kind
Sau-herra
Mosku - The Last of His Kind tells about the life of reindeer emperor Aleksi Hihnavaara, Mosku, in Eastern Lapland at the beginning of the 20th century, when social conditions and the practice of traditional livelihoods are in transition. Mosku is involved in reindeer disputes and skirmishes and is also involved in the bandit hunt on the side of Soviet Russia led by Wallenius, the commander of the Lapland border guard.
Hayflower and Quiltshoe
Matti Kattilakoski
The quirky adventures of Hayflower and her little sister Quiltshoe.
Aita
Lauri
Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love with his daughter's new friend, 16-year old flirtatious Saija.
Don't Push the River
Jyrki
Tommy and the Wildcat
Father
Twelve-year-old Tommy reluctantly moves with his father from the big city to a small Lapp village - the childhood home of his mother, who has recently died. The village is close to the northernmost wildlife reserve in the world, where Tommy's father will be working on a project to release a captive lynx into the wild. The boy gradually falls under the spell of his new surroundings, and discovers that his mother was involved in protecting the local lynx, and, when his father's project fails, and the lynx is about to be sold, he decides to set it free himself. A dramatic series of events ensues, and Tommy, through his brave actions, regains the trust and respect of his family and the village.
Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro - pisnismies
Poliisi
Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.
Harjunpää and the Persecutors
Raikas Poikolainen
Inspector Timo Harjunpää works on harassment and extortion campaign case against successful computer expert
Uuno Turhapuron poika
Gangsters try to steal Uuno Turhapuro's father-in-law's money by infiltrating into the family through Uuno, by pretending he has a long-lost son.
Love in a Fish Bowl
Raikka Merivuo
Waitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in to live with him. Joni tries his best to satisfy Saara sexually but, disturbed by violent lesbian fantasies, she is unable to experience orgasm. Trying to cope with the situation, Saara has another brief affair back in her old home town.
Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
Beyond the Law
Constable
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.