Jani Volanen

Jani Volanen

Nacimiento : 1971-11-01, Helsinki, Finland

Historia

Jani Kristian Volanen (born 1 November 1971) is a Finnish actor, director and writer. He has appeared in films such as The Romanov Stones (1993), Homecoming (2015), The Mine (2016), Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019) and Hatching (2022). He is also a creator of a mystery thriller series Summer of Sorrow.

Perfil

Jani Volanen
Jani Volanen

Películas

Ego
Father
Una joven gimnasta que intenta desesperadamente complacer a su exigente madre, descubre un extraño huevo. Ella lo esconde y lo mantiene caliente, pero cuando sale del cascarón, lo que emerge los sorprende a todos.
The Bouncer
Writer
A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He has to act to protect the victims.
The Bouncer
The Bouncer
A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He has to act to protect the victims.
Eden
Asko
En el verano de sus vidas, tres adolescentes finlandeses se debatiran entre Jesús y los primeros amores en el debut de la directora Ulla Heikkilä, que traza un sutil y revelador retrato de los caminos de la fe y la liberación sexual en la volatil etapa vital que es la adolescencia. Cada verano, los adolescentes finlandeses que practican el catolicismo se preparan para ir al campamento donde se confirmarán ante los ojos de Dios, y la iglesia. En este particular verano, conoceremos a cuatro de ellos, todos divididos entre su identidad religiosa, la independencia y el cosquilleo del primer amor.
Damas de hierro
Ville
Inkeri tiene 75 años y está planeando enterrar a su marido, al que acaba de matar de un sartenazo, en el jardín de su casa. Cuando se da cuenta de que va a pasar el resto de su vida en la cárcel, se lanza a un enloquecido último viaje con sus hermanas Sylvi y Raili.
Los perros no llevan pantalones
Pauli
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.
Happier times, Grump
Pekka
El Grump se prepara para morir, todo está hecho y su esposa está muerta. Él está haciendo su propio ataúd cuando la vida entra, de repente. La nieta necesita la terquedad y la sabiduría de su abuelo. A cambio, The Grump obtiene un significado para su vida y un gran secreto.
Laugh or Die
Hjalmar Kalm
Parikka, the actor once called the Funniest Man in Finland, and his troupe are about to be executed for the atrocities committed during the Civil War in Finland. Jaeger Lieutenant Nyborg, an admirer of Parikka, suspects a definite miscarriage of justice. He wants to save the actors. The forthcoming visit of the German General von der Goltz to the prison island provides him with a suitable opportunity. Nyborg suggests that the actors prepare a comical performance for the visitor and not be shot. Instead, they will be given a new trial. Preparing a comedy in the horrible circumstances, in the midst of hunger and death, seems quite an overwhelming task. Only a handful of real actors are still alive, the rest of the troupe consists of stagehands. Parikka has to use all his inventive skills to be able to produce something funny.
Lapland Odyssey 3
Kittilän runkkareiden pomo
In the third instalment of the franchise, Janne embarks on an epic hike, a journey of self-discovery. His dreams of a tranquil retreat into nature are quickly shattered however, when Räihänen and Kämäräinen both decide to come along for the trip. Meanwhile Janne’s spouse Inari gets the chance to go back to work, but only if she can prove she’s “management material” and a real leader. Inari enters the Swamp Soccer tournament, where to her horror she finds out her ex Little Mikko is also competing.
The Mine
Pekka Perä
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.
Distractions
Writer
Distraído por la vida, el Sr. Makkonen extraña por décadas su fiesta de compromiso. De la cuna a la tumba, la vida sigue interrumpiendo, no sólo a él, sino a una madre cansada, un superhéroe condenado y el resto de los compañeros en este mundo incontrolable. La mezcla de comedia y fantasía con historias oscuras…
Distractions
Theatre Play
Distraído por la vida, el Sr. Makkonen extraña por décadas su fiesta de compromiso. De la cuna a la tumba, la vida sigue interrumpiendo, no sólo a él, sino a una madre cansada, un superhéroe condenado y el resto de los compañeros en este mundo incontrolable. La mezcla de comedia y fantasía con historias oscuras…
Distractions
Veli Korhonen
Distraído por la vida, el Sr. Makkonen extraña por décadas su fiesta de compromiso. De la cuna a la tumba, la vida sigue interrumpiendo, no sólo a él, sino a una madre cansada, un superhéroe condenado y el resto de los compañeros en este mundo incontrolable. La mezcla de comedia y fantasía con historias oscuras…
Homecoming
Kake
Tiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daughter and new husband, they move in and start to renovate the old house. However, neither the renovation nor facing the past is effortless.
Police Investigates
Ahti
A short film directed by Aleksi Salmenperä.
Love and Other Troubles
Eikka
Ville, con 25 años, es una antigua estrella infantil un tanto pesimista, que ha logrado evitar exitosamente por años a su mujeriego padre roquero. Todo cambia cuando éste se va a vivir con Ville y ambos se enamoran de la misma profesora estadounidense de baile country.
On Thin Ice
Hans
It's Christmas Eve in Helsinki. Young taxi driver Samu is working to escape a family Christmas with his fiancé and baby. At the airport Samu picks up a fascinating customer: a Finnish mercenary Hans, who has returned to Helsinki after an absence of 20 years. Hans hires Samu to go on a mission with him: to find Laura, the daughter of his recently deceased best friend and brother in arms. The quest to find Laura leads the men around the wintry city, to places and people from Hans's past. As Samu watches Hans confront his past, he begins to open his eyes to his own future. When the eventful mission reaches its end, both of the men's lives are forever changed.
One Foot Under
Priest
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.
Forbidden Fruit
Ilari
Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.
Falling Angels
Lääkäri Erjomaa
The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.
Playing Solo
A Man's Work
Olli
Un obrero que queda desempleado decide salvar a su familia dedicándose a vender sus servicios sexuales. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Prince of Soap
Ohjaaja
Screenwriter Ilona falls in love with Kalle, the main star of the series, and mixes fact and fiction when she starts writing a romance between herself and the star. Jealous producer Raakel does everything she can to destroy Ilona's plans.
Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
Nipa
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in all of its vulgarity. An alcohol dependency, several marriages accompanied by numerous marital problems, petty crime, uncontrolled acts of violence, and greedy hangers-on.
Rumble
Screenplay
Finnish Road Movie
Rumble
Director
Finnish Road Movie
An Eye for an Eye
Sulo Salo / Kalevi Salo
I Loved a Desperate Woman
Jerico 2000
Writer
Jerico 2000 is a magazine programme parody made by Julmahuvi group. It's mainly made of parts from "Studio Julmahuvi" TV series. It participated in Rose d'Or film festival in Montreux.
Jerico 2000
Director
Jerico 2000 is a magazine programme parody made by Julmahuvi group. It's mainly made of parts from "Studio Julmahuvi" TV series. It participated in Rose d'Or film festival in Montreux.
Jerico 2000
Jerico 2000 is a magazine programme parody made by Julmahuvi group. It's mainly made of parts from "Studio Julmahuvi" TV series. It participated in Rose d'Or film festival in Montreux.
Fire-Eater
Clown
The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged...
Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava
Porttivahti Räikkönen
New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.
The Joyboys Story
Director
A mockumentary about a fictional Finnish boy band The Joyboys.
The Joyboys Story
Writer
A mockumentary about a fictional Finnish boy band The Joyboys.
The Joyboys Story
Yanee
A mockumentary about a fictional Finnish boy band The Joyboys.
Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni
Vartiomies Räikkönen
Relations between Sweden and Finland come to near breaking point. When further negotiations led by President Mara fail, Sergeant Körmy interferes in the course of events.
The Romanov Stones
Henrik
This action packed Finnish thriller tells the tale of two friends who get their revenge against the millionaire who double-crossed them. Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, but almost lose their lives when he double-crosses them. They turn around and get revenge, his money, his wife, and his daughter.
Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät
Alikersantti Räikkönen
The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons launch equipment and codes to neutral Finland.
Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
Sotamies Räikkönen
Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.
Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
Räikkönen
The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.