Matti Pellonpää
Nacimiento : 1951-03-28, Helsinki, Finland
Muerte : 1995-07-13
Historia
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Matti Pellonpää (28 March 1951 in Helsinki – 13 July 1995 in Vaasa) was an award-winning Finnish actor and a musician. He rose to international fame with his roles in both Aki Kaurismäki's and Mika Kaurismäki's films; particularly being a regular in Aki's films, appearing in 18 of them.
He started his career in 1962 as a radio actor at the Finnish state-owned broadcasting company YLE. He performed as an actor during the 70s in many amateur theatres, at the same time that he studied at the Finnish Theatre Academy, where he completed his studies in the year 1977.
He was nominated Best Actor by European Film Academy for his role as Rodolfo in La Vie de Boheme and won the Felix at the European Film Awards in 1992. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth.
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Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988.
Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.
Rodolfo (archive footage) (uncredited)
A sus 22 años, Richard (David Tennant) ha heredado el negocio de pompas fúnebres que su padre tiene en Bradford y está a punto de casarse con Joy (Saskia Reeves), la hija de un rico hombre de negocios. Pero en la vida de Richard falta algo. Él aspira a ser escritor y le gusta el cine y todo lo relacionado con Hollywood. Su vida dará un giro cuando, durante un funeral conozca a Barbara (Vinessa Shaw), una actriz de Los Angeles. Para Richard, es auténtico amor a primera vista. Animado por el espíritu de su héroe, Johnny Depp, Richard sigue a Barbara hasta su casa y se planta ante la puerta, vestido con su traje de lana inglés. Pero las cosas no son tan fáciles como él cree, ya que tiene que luchar contra un rival decidido y muy seguro de sí mismo.
Seeker
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.
Luikki
The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator.
Moses / Vladimir
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home.
Reino
A medidados de los años 60, dos finlandeses que tienen problemas para comunicarse con las mujeres, viaja en una furgoneta en dirección hacia el sur. En el camino encuentran a la estonia Tatiana y la rusa Klavdia, más despiertas y experimentadas.
Dino
Finnish comedy.
Dimitri
One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world
Rodolfo
Narra la amistad y desventuras de tres curiosos artistas sin blanca en el París bohemio. Marcel, un escritor sin trabajo que se dedica a recoger botellas vacías, Rodolfo, un pintor albanés sin papeles, y Schaunard, un compositor irlandés. Los tres intentan sobrevivir a su mala situación económica ayudándose mutuamente.
Mika
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.
Harri
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?
Toimistovirkailijat
Sequel to Kuutamosonaatti (1988).
Vladimir Kuzmin
A stranger arrives in Parisian night café where the Leningrad Cowboys are drinking.
Interpreter of Fruktosian
That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance.
Räpsy
Directed by Matti Ijäs and written with Arto Meller, Räpsy & Dolly aka Paris Waits (1990) is a tragicomic love story of a petty criminal and a former cabaret dancer. Detective Karisto (Kari Väänänen) releases Auno "Räpsy" Pirilä (Matti Pellonpää) from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje (Pertti Sveholm) from criminal activities. Alcoholic Dolly (Raija Paalanen) takes Räpsy to live in Kallio, Helsinki, and hopes to move to Paris with her in the spring.
Hugo Barine
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's play Les Mains Sales (Dirty Hands) tells the story of Hugo (Matti Pellonpää) who has just been released from prison. Before going to prison, he has worked as a journalist at his party's newspaper. This timid journalist, who uses the pseudonym Raskolnikov, wants to advance in his career and gets his chance when Hoederer (Sulevi Peltola), the leader of the party, has to be eliminated.
Ravintolan asiakas
Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.
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A group of kids goes on an adventure to help their scientist friend
Vladimir (Manager)
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.
Matti Ojanperä
A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!
Mikkonen
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...
Gaffer
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
Guard
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
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.
Nikander
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."
Earless Man
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.
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.
Formulakuski, joka etsii kuolemaa
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react
Frank
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".
Sound Effects
Just when Julia is going to finish her horse drawing, her mother goes to the shop and leaves Julia to watch over her little brother Jonni. Then Julia dreams that when she grows up, she will have her very own circus horse, Josafat.
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.
Ritsari
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.
Säikky-Nilsson
Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past. Irma attempts to commit suicide, and resurrects at the city morgue after being pronounced dead. After the incident, she wanders out direction-less, being pursued by the doctor who treated her and also a strange, tall man.
A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Honest Man
Nikander
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.
kiiluvasilmäinen pilleristi
Kapula Kirkasoja
Rex Räsänen
Manne
Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit.
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.
Hermonsa menettänyt sotilaskarkuri
Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
Puhelias keihäsmies
TV play about the legend of Lalli.
Fan of Chandler
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.
Jaakko Sammalsuo
It follows a year in the life of a family in the North-Eastern part of Finland. From the gloomy days of winter to the Mid Summer wedding festivities.
Mopedimies
Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol.
Hessu, tykkimies
Liisa, a young nurse returns to a remote island where she has spent the summer leaves in her youth. She soon gets to know some of the regular residents on the island, Pekka and Paula. During the summer party the underlying tensions mount. This film is based on a novel titled "Saari" written by Irene Hammar in 1962
Valdemar Leppänen, "Valtu"
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
Dances are ending. Last chance for women and men to find someone. Special prize at Tampere Film Festival 1970.
Schoolboy (uncredited)
When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
