Jani Volanen

Jani Volanen

Nascimento : 1971-11-01, Helsinki, Finland

História

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.

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Jani Volanen
Jani Volanen

Filmes

Hatching
Father
Tinja, de 12 anos, e ginasta, está desesperada para agradar a mãe, uma mulher obcecada em apresentar a imagem de uma família perfeita. Uma noite, Tinja encontra um ovo estranho e leva para seu quarto, sem contar para ninguém da família. Mas estranhos acontecimentos fazem com que Tinja mude para algo animalesco. Porém quando o ovo choca, o que sai de dentro é inacreditável.
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
Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the intellectually confident non-believer, Jenna is the queen bee and Panu is the scared bird. The experience of these teenagers is affected by Tiina, a young and eager priest.
Ladies of Steel
Ville
Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and Raili join her on a trip to the Koli National Park. Will Inkeri find in her that free young woman who desired a feminist revolution in the 70s?
Dogs Don´t Wear Pants
Pauli
Anos após a morte da esposa, Juha sofre de tristeza e arrependimento. Ao se deparar com o estúdio de uma dominadora, ele encontra conforto em Mona, que está tão disposta a punir Juha quanto ele está a ser punido. Como nenhum dos dois sabe até que ponto estão dispostos a ir, tudo sai de controle.
Happier times, Grump
Pekka
The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when the life walks in, all of a sudden. The granddaughter needs the stubbornness and wisdom of her grandpa. In return, The Grump gets a meaning for his life – and a big secret.
Rir ou Morrer
Hjalmar Kalm
Finlândia, 1918. Um grupo de atores prisioneiros sentenciados à morte se empenha para montar uma peça de teatro humorística. A intenção é entreter o comandante da tropa alemã, que visita a cadeia e tem fama de nunca rir. Se conseguirem fazê-lo rir, escaparão da execução. O grupo é liderado por Toivo Parikka, considerado o homem mais engraçado do país. Com humor negro e situações grotescas, o filme mostra a humanidade sob uma luz cômica. Baseado em uma história real.
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
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.
Distractions
Writer
Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a tired mother, a doomed superhero and the rest of the comrades in this uncontrollable world. Mixing comedy and fantasy with dark stories, Distractions will deliver the laughs with strings attached.
Distractions
Theatre Play
Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a tired mother, a doomed superhero and the rest of the comrades in this uncontrollable world. Mixing comedy and fantasy with dark stories, Distractions will deliver the laughs with strings attached.
Distractions
Veli Korhonen
Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a tired mother, a doomed superhero and the rest of the comrades in this uncontrollable world. Mixing comedy and fantasy with dark stories, Distractions will deliver the laughs with strings attached.
A Volta
Kake
Tiina e Tomi decidem abandonar a vida frenética de Helsinki e se mudar para a pequena e costeira terra natal de Tiina. Ela quer retomar o relacionamento com o pai, Urho, e por meio da paisagem familiar de sua infância, reencontrar seu verdadeiro eu. Tomi também aguarda ansiosamente por uma rotina tranquila com a nova família e com Emilia, sua filha adolescente. O plano parece perfeito —até que tudo começa a dar errado.
Police Investigates
Ahti
A short film directed by Aleksi Salmenperä.
Amor e Outros Problemas
Eikka
Ville, 25, é um ex-estrela infantil que tem evitado seu pai mulherengo e roqueiro por anos. Tudo muda quando seu pai se muda para seu apartamento e ambos se apaixonam por uma professora de dança "Americana".
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
Man's Job
Olli
Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family. But one day Juha is fired from his job. Ashamed, he weaves a web of lies to hide the fact from his family. With the help of his friend Olli, Juha begins prostituting himself to support his wife and children. With this he makes in two hours what it took him two days to earn before. The shame and deception mushroom, but the pay from the new profession seems to offset the downside.
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.