Matti Pellonpää
Рождение : 1951-03-28, Helsinki, Finland
Смерть : 1995-07-13
История
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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)
Приехав в один из очаровательных городков на севере Англии, «подающая надежды голливудская актриса» Барбара познакомилась с городским гробовщиком Ричардом, по совместительству пишущим некрологи в местную газету. Вернувшись домой к своим обязанностям официантки в японском ресторане, Барбара стала рассказывать всем своим знакомым о «красавце-писателе». К несчастью, «писателю» вздумалось навестить «актрису». Не зная толком даже ее адреса, Ричард прыгает в самолет и отправляется следом за ней в Лoc-Анджелес…
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
После того как самая неудачная музыкальная группа из далекого сибирского городка приехала в Америку в поисках счастья и успеха, она потеряла своего менеджера-деспота Владимира, а ее участники начали погибать от новой напасти — текилы.
Их прозябание в Мексике меняется после появления человека, который называет себя Моисеем, но который очень похож на Владимира — бывшего менеджера.
Reino
Два приятеля Рейно и Валто отправляются в выходной в путешествие по южной Финляндии на машине «Волга». Рейно, механик, любит бренди, Валто, обожает кофе и находится под каблуком своей матери. По дороге они встречают эстонку Татьяну и Клавдию, девушку из Казахстана. Языковый барьер затрудняет общение, но главное, молодые люди совершенно теряются в присутствии новых знакомых.
Dino
Finnish comedy.
Dimitri
One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world
Rodolfo
Трое художников — албанец Родольфо, француз Марсель и ирландец Шонар — оказываются в Париже без гроша в кармане. Они занимаются чистым искусством и искренне считают себя непризнанными гениями. Жизнь в двух шагах от успеха и в шаге от пропасти не дает им расслабиться, однако в их жизни находится место и любви, и трогательным попыткам перехитрить судьбу.
Mika
Отстранённые, словно подсмотренные из космоса пять таксистских историй, грустных и комедийных, случившихся за одну ночь в пяти мегаполисах мира. Каждая имеет свою особенную тему, свойственную месту действия. Так, что такое карьера, выясняется в сердце американской мечты Лос-Анжелесе.Встреча Старого Света с Новым происходит, конечно же, в бурлящем котле Нью-Йорка. О зрении и слепоте лучше всего знают в столице мировой красоты Париже, а вопросы жизни и смерти — в вечном городе Риме. И, наконец, тема заброшенности человека в этот мир нигде не выглядит более убедительно, чем на заснеженных просторах Хельсинки.
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.
self
A group of kids goes on an adventure to help their scientist friend
Vladimir (Manager)
Сюжет фильма построен вокруг приключений музыкальной группы из далёкой Сибири, приехавшей в Америку в поисках успеха.
Музыкальная группа из России сыграна финским коллективом Sleepy Sleepers, который вскоре после выхода фильма также сменил название на «Ленинградские ковбои». Они исполняют свои версии известных рок-н-рольных хитов таких групп, как Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Beatles, Steppenwolf и Элвиса Пресли.
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
С героем фильма шахтером Таисто случается серия неудач…
Gaffer
Клавдий безропотно превращается в Клауса, а Принц Датский — в чувствительного недоросля «с сердцем теплым, как холодильник», пожирающего колбасу ломтями и ногой врубающего магнитофон. Борьба за власть осталась неизменной пружиной человеческих отношений с шекспировских времен, зато в качестве предмета нежной страсти деньги вытеснили все остальное.
Guard
Клавдий безропотно превращается в Клауса, а Принц Датский — в чувствительного недоросля «с сердцем теплым, как холодильник», пожирающего колбасу ломтями и ногой врубающего магнитофон. Борьба за власть осталась неизменной пружиной человеческих отношений с шекспировских времен, зато в качестве предмета нежной страсти деньги вытеснили все остальное.
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
История любви мусорщика и кассирши универсама. Мрачный усатый тип по имени Никандер холост, обычно вечером после работы идет в кино, потом в бар, пока не упьется и не вляпается в странную историю. Утром рискует обнаружить себя то ли в тюремной камере, то ли на мусорной свалке с разбитой головой.
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
Десятка полтора-два суровых парней, каждый из которых носит имя Фрэнк, решают отправиться из Каллио в Эйра, из бедного квартала Хельсинки в южный богатый квартал. Не важно, что подлинная длина маршрута едва ли превышает пару километров. Неискушенные городом первобытные мужики из Великой Степи ступают на самую опасную тропу своей жизни.
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
Действие романа Достоевского перенесено в Хельсинки начала восьмидесятых годов двадцатого века. Главный герой — студент юридического факультета Анти Рахикайнен, тяжело переживающий гибель своей невесты в автокатастрофе, бросает учебу и идет работать мясником. Он выясняет имя виновного в смерти своей любимой и приходит в его дом, чтобы отомстить. Анти убивает виновника своего горя, но его преступление видит свидетель — Ева Лааско. Она становится совестью Анти, пытаясь убедить того пойти в полицию с повинной. Дебютная работа финского режиссера Аки Каурисмяки посвящена адаптации произведения Ф.М. Достоевского «Преступление и наказание».
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...
