Klaus Härö
Nascimento : 1971-03-31, Porvoo, Finland
História
Klaus Härö is a Finnish film director. Härö studied film directing and screenwriting at the Aalto University School of Arts in Helsinki and graduated with a Master of Arts degree in 1999.
Härö's graduation film Nattflykt (Into the Night) won the Children's Jury Honorary Mention at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival, The Golden Cairo Award at the 2001 Cairo Children's Film Festival and the first prize at the 2001 Argentine Children's Film Festival. Härö's documentary film Kolme toivetta (Three Wishes) was awarded as the best documentary film of the Nordic public service broadcasters exchange programme Norvision 2001. It also received the Joan Harms Honorary Award in Finland and the Telvis Honorary Award in 2002. In 2009 Postia pappi Jaakobille (Letters to Father Jacob) won both the special award of the church and the festival's audience vote at the 2009 Nordic Film Festival Lübeck. At the Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival in November 2009, the film won the main prize. In the same month, the film won the main prize, at the Cairo International Film Festival. Estonian-Finnish co-production Vehkleja (The Fencer), directed by Härö, was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film. It was also selected as Finland's official Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
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A retired sea captain and his daughter must reassess their strained relationship after he begins a new romance with a widowed housekeeper.
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Nisse’s wife Leila has just died but he feels he’s done enough mourning. Friends and family are overrun by Nisse who just wants the funeral to be over and done with. No fuss and no mourning here! Nisse demands to be left alone. So, there he is, with the only thing remaining – the sorrow. Nisse grows to understand that even a deep loss is no excuse to eliminate everyone and everything.
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Nisse’s wife Leila has just died but he feels he’s done enough mourning. Friends and family are overrun by Nisse who just wants the funeral to be over and done with. No fuss and no mourning here! Nisse demands to be left alone. So, there he is, with the only thing remaining – the sorrow. Nisse grows to understand that even a deep loss is no excuse to eliminate everyone and everything.
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Olavi, an aged and shabby art dealer, is planning to retire. Accidentally he finds an old painting that he suspects being much more valuable than his colleagues have priced it. He decides to try to prove for the last time for himself, his colleagues and his estranged family that he can make it.
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Endell Nelis foi um esgrimista e treinador estoniano que durante a sua adolescência foi recrutado para servir ao exército da Alemanha na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Após a guerra, fugindo da polícia secreta soviética, ele passa a ensinar esgrima em uma pequena cidade, porém seu passado controverso volta para atormentá-lo. Parcialmente baseado na história real de Endell Nelis.
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Malla and her husband are drifting apart. When Malla gets a new daycare child, she understands how lonely she is.
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Malla and her husband are drifting apart. When Malla gets a new daycare child, she understands how lonely she is.
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With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.
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With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father Jacob spends his days answering the letters of the needy, which Leila finds pointless. But when the letters stop, the pastor is devastated and Leila finds herself cast in a new role.
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Uma nova sociedade está se desenvolvendo, uma sociedade onde não há espaço para os social e mentalmente fracos. Gertrud (Julia Högberg) é uma garota de 17 anos de uma família muito pobre. Contra sua vontade, ela fica comprometida com uma casa de trabalho para mulheres jovens. Gertrud descobre que a única saída é concordar com a esterilização "voluntária". Gertrud se apaixona pelo zelador, Axel (Christoffer Svensson) e logo fica grávida. Ela sonha com uma vida familiar normal com Axel e a criança, e não percebe que para levar a cabo a operação, o médico extrairá a criança. Gertrud muda de ideia sobre a operação, mas ela já não tem opção. Será que Gertrud vai enganar o sistema?
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Maria is an actress, someone who is used to playing with and acting on feelings, her own as well as others’. However, behind the role there is a disappointed person who does not feel she has achieved what she wanted in life. All this changes when she is cast for the leading role in a play.
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1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his foster mother Signe behaves very unfriendly. She was expecting a little girl and still mourns for her daughter who drowned in the sea.
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In rural Sweden of the early 1950s, little Elina goes to school again after recovering from tuberculosis, the same illness that has killed her father a few years earlier. Elina's family belongs to Finnish-speaking Finns frowned upon by a staunch schoolmistress who starts hounding Elina for questioning her authority. Elina's mother, sister, and a liberal young male teacher all try to mediate the ensuing battle of wills between Elina and Miss Holm. Elina finds consolation in wandering out on the dangerous marshlands to have imaginary conversations with her dead father. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki
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A baby boy with a serious heart condition is fighting for his life in intensive care. At the same time, nurses are preparing for a mass resignation.
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1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.
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1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.
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When a minor German prince becomes an unlikely king candidate, the assignment to teach him the language of his future subjects seems purely formal at first. But as the offbeat candidate is elected king, the pupil and his tutor find themselves in the midst of ugly political intrigue. Ultimately, both of them have to give up their life dreams in order to save a nation from ruin.
