Leo Jokela
Leo Paavali Jokela (24 January 1927 – 11 May 1975) was a Finnish actor.
He is best remembered for his role as a detective Kokki in Matti Kassila's Komisario Palmu films and as a parrot G. Pula-aho in Spede Pasanen's radio programs.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1569 |
| Birthday | 1927-01-24 |
| Place of Birth | Hausjärvi, Finland |
| Also Known As | Лео Йокела, |
1956
Rintamalotta
7.333/3
Irma has been sent to the front immediately after her marriage to Erik Vuori. Irma and her new "Lotta" companions find themselves in many dangerous si...
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Rintamalotta
1961
Tyttö ja hattu
6.833/3
Mirja finds her grandmother's old hat in the attic and sets off singing along the road with it on her head. On her journey, she meets composer couple...
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Tyttö ja hattu
1962
Vaarallista vapautta
7.5/2
Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the help of her...
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Vaarallista vapautta
1956
The Harvest Month
6.682/11
The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a...
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The Harvest Month
1962
Taape tähtenä
5/2
The director waits in vain for the female lead of his new film to arrive on set. He hires his production assistant Taape for the female lead role so t...
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Taape tähtenä
1954
Kovanaama
5.75/4
Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news....
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Kovanaama
1961
Kultainen vasikka
7.5/2
Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.
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Kultainen vasikka
1948
Kalle Aaltosen morsian
5.5/2
The S/S Vellamo heads to Alexandria with Kaarina, the daughter of the ship's owner Hallerman, on board. As Kaarina trades places with the family's hou...
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Kalle Aaltosen morsian
1958
Asessorin naishuolet
8/2
After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.
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Asessorin naishuolet
1961
Pikku Pietarin piha
7/5
A little orphan boy is the focus of attention, as well as his stepmother whose special qualities engender a certain mystery around her person – and hi...
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Pikku Pietarin piha
1960
Inspector Palmu's Error
7/39
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
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Inspector Palmu's Error
1974
Viu-hah hah-taja
5.75/8
The invisible UFO men Giljotin and Orvaskesi land on Earth and take on the appearance of the first people they encounter, Mr. Tossavais and psychiatri...
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Viu-hah hah-taja
1960
Opettajatar seikkailee
4.833/6
An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagr...
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Opettajatar seikkailee
1954
Hilmanpäivät
6.2/5
The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the...
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Hilmanpäivät
1963
Villin Pohjolan kulta
6/3
A western set in the "Wild North". The Vornan brothers Joel, Tommi, and Kai are framed for the robbery of a gold-laden carriage and the murder of its...
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Villin Pohjolan kulta
1960
Kankkulan kaivolla
9/2
A radio reporter from Helsinki arrives in the village of Kankkula just before Midsummer to conduct interviews. The old sheriff demands that his nephew...
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Kankkulan kaivolla
1961
Toivelauluja
6.5/2
A film centered around a popular Finnish song book. Young lovers Pirkko and Pekka break off their engagement at the end of an evening spent at a dance...
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Toivelauluja
1949
Aaltoska orkaniseeraa
6.667/3
Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious...
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Aaltoska orkaniseeraa
1949
Orpopojan valssi
8/1
A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful...
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Orpopojan valssi
1949
Professori Masa
6.5/2
A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside...
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Professori Masa
1969
Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
5.6/18
A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of po...
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Vodkaa, komisario Palmu
1949
Serenaadiluutnantti
5.5/2
Broke touring artists get on the wrong bus and end up as army recruits for a few days. Misunderstandings turn barracks life and people's heads upside...
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Serenaadiluutnantti
1950
Köyhä laulaja
8.5/2
Sisters Irma and Airi Ranna's café Iltatähti has run into financial trouble. Touring musicians Heikki and Jussi end up as tenants in the same boarding...
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Köyhä laulaja
1950
Maija löytää sävelen
7/3
Concertmaster Orasto and his pianist wife Elna hire Maija, who has been treated harshly by life, as their domestic helper. Erkki, the composer son of...
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Maija löytää sävelen
1961
Gas, Inspector Palmu!
7.3/30
A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu...
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Gas, Inspector Palmu!
1959
Lasisydän
6.333/3
A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.
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Lasisydän
1958
Pieni luutatyttö
7.667/3
A stepfather forces Liisa, an orphan girl, to leave her small town and go to Helsinki alone to sell brooms. With the help of a friendly vagrant named...
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Pieni luutatyttö
1960
Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis!
4.25/4
Eemeli leaves the countryside for Helsinki to obtain tax money for the bailiff who is pursuing him. In the capital, he becomes the assistant driver of...
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Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis!
1961
Oksat pois…
7/2
Kalle leaves with his wife for their honeymoon in Airisto, but instead of a rental car, he mistakenly takes the getaway car stolen by robbers for a di...
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Oksat pois…
1961
Kertokaa se hänelle…
9/1
Mauno, an orphan boy, moves from the countryside to Tampere to live with his foster parents, Iida and Eero, who support him in his music studies. As a...
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Kertokaa se hänelle…
1963
Turkasen tenava!
10/1
Architect Matti picks up Ritva and her young son while on a business trip. When the car runs out of gas, the travelers are forced to spend the night a...
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Turkasen tenava!
1961
Minkkiturkki
4/4
A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
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Minkkiturkki
1961
Olin nahjuksen vaimo
7/1
While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone towards...
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Olin nahjuksen vaimo
1954
Scarlet Week
5.538/14
After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking ar...
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Scarlet Week
1951
Tukkijoella
4/7
A 3rd remake of the film based on the play by Teuvo Pakkala. Tells the story of the lumberjack group and how the lives of villagers and lumberjacks in...
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Tukkijoella
1958
Paksunahka
5.25/4
A man dreaming of becoming a private detective gets suck into an investigation of a crime involving the theft of a secret chemical formula.
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Paksunahka
1954
Putkinotko
5.6/5
A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina Käkri...
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Putkinotko
1957
Syntipukki
5/3
"Mussu" Koikkalainen, a country boy moves to town to find a job. He finds it and is even promoted to head of complaints department. But little he know...
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Syntipukki
1958
Kulkurin masurkka
3.833/6
A story about vagabond named Paul and his journeys in the countryside. He is a real charmer and many women will fall in his lap.
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Kulkurin masurkka
1970
Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika
5.731/13
Speedy Gonzales arrives in a small village in New York to investigate the mysterious death of his brother Moses, with the help of the lively Rita. In...
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Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika
1962
Yö vai päivä
5.75/4
A French cultural research group arrives in Finland. From Helsinki, the group travels to Saimaa to participate in Midsummer rituals, where the summer...
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Yö vai päivä
1952
The Witch
6.238/21
An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears a...
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The Witch
1968
Vain neljä kertaa
0/0
Lasse divorces his second wife Pirko when it turns out that he has a child with Raija. They get married, but as Lasse reflects on his three marriages,...
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Vain neljä kertaa
1966
Johan nyt on markkinat!
6.333/3
The life of First Lieutenant Heikki Lilja, who is dating Colonel Taipale's daughter Tiina, is turned upside down when his company is ordered to search...
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Johan nyt on markkinat!
1967
Pähkähullu Suomi
5.818/11
A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the film’s...
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Pähkähullu Suomi
1954
Laivaston monnit maissa
4.25/4
Sailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.
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Laivaston monnit maissa
1962
Älä nuolase…
6.25/4
Poor service station workers Jaakko and Timo think they have won the lottery jackpot. The men are already making big plans when it turns out that the...
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Älä nuolase…
1973
Rautatie
7.8/5
Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.
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Rautatie
1968
Noin 7 veljestä
6.3/10
The greedy lord of the manor, von Wurstburg, lives lavishly on his estate, heavily taxing the local peasants, when the official heir to the estate, th...
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Noin 7 veljestä
1956
Jokin ihmisessä
6.75/4
Pitch-noir melodrama about young Kauko's endless obsession and love-hate-relationship with Osmi, a girl he has known since childhood. Standing at her...
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Jokin ihmisessä
1962
Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu
6.643/28
A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for the...
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Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu
1954
Olemme kaikki syyllisiä
8.333/3
A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He st...
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Olemme kaikki syyllisiä
1969
Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut
5.045/11
TV studio organizer Mikko Syvärinen becomes the admired comedian K. Ovimikko through a series of mishaps. However, Mikko's popularity wanes when he sw...
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Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut
1959
Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
4.917/12
Justiina pushes Pekka and Pätkä to take painting lessons after realizing that art can be a way to earn a living. With the help of the yard children, a...
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Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
1969
Leikkikalugangsteri
5.875/8
Two Finnish toy manufacturers Jim King and Krakström compete for toys. King's business is far too successful and he is trying to tax fraud with the he...
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Leikkikalugangsteri
1960
Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
4.333/6
The musical comedy tells the story of two friends about Usko and Toivo, both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.
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Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
1971
Kahdeksas veljes
5.583/6
Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.
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Kahdeksas veljes
1960
Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä
5.4/10
Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.
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Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä
1966
Rakkaus alkaa aamuyöstä
5.4/5
Erkki leaves the army and sets out to find himself. In the countryside, he finds new love and the courage to stand up to his strict father.
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Rakkaus alkaa aamuyöstä
1960
Iloinen Linnanmäki
4/4
Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new...
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Iloinen Linnanmäki
1955
Näkemiin Helena
7.333/3
A melodrama based on Aino Räsänen's novel of the same name, continuing the story of the Junkker family.
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Näkemiin Helena
1959
Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa
5.286/7
An ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be his sta...
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Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa
1956
Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin
5/5
A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a mal...
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Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin
1951
Lakeuksien lukko
5.667/3
Set in rural Ostrobothnia in 1859, Tuomas Kantola, a farmer, is the only peasant in the village who does not sell his land to Lohikoski's boss Adler,...
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Lakeuksien lukko
1957
Kuriton sukupolvi
7.2/5
Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his study...
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Kuriton sukupolvi
1959
Punainen viiva
6/5
The story of the first elections in Finland. Farmer Topi Romppainen lives a modest life with his family in Kainuu in the early 20th century. While sho...
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Punainen viiva
1958
Sven Tuuva the Hero
5.714/7
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Rus...
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Sven Tuuva the Hero
1960
Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut
6.5/2
The unlucky layabout Isarkar Keturi brings a criminal gang to heel with the help of his assistant Mikael. He frees Irma, the daughter of mining magnat...
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Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut
1961
Tähtisumua
4.5/2
Pirkko Mannola and Esko Salminen play young pop stars of the same name, who develop a secret romance that is kept hidden from the other musicians in t...
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Tähtisumua
1958
Sotapojan heilat
4.5/2
A military farce from a rookie with over a hundred female pen pals.
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Sotapojan heilat
1955
Sankarialokas
5.3/5
Sankarialokas is a parody about military life from year 1955.
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Sankarialokas
1957
Taas tyttö kadoksissa!
6.333/3
Police chief Olavi, health nurse Liisa Niemi and photo reporter Takola are investigating the disappearance of a local girl.
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Taas tyttö kadoksissa!
1960
Autotytöt
10/1
Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.
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Autotytöt
1954
Leena
5.5/2
Unemployed girl shoplifts in department store. Son of a wealthy family notice the shoplifting but won't turn her in. After awhile they are seen togeth...
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Leena
1956
Lain mukaan
6.667/3
Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the prev...
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Lain mukaan
1955
Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
5/5
Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.
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Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
1959
Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
4.8/5
Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printi...
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Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
1955
Villi Pohjola
6.75/4
A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.
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Villi Pohjola
1955
Tähtisilmä
5/3
Poor orphan coffee delivery girl loves a poor painter who can't sell his artworks. Painter likes delivery girl, but has stuck in a friend zone. Delive...
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Tähtisilmä
1957
Vääpelin kauhu
4.6/5
A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.
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Vääpelin kauhu
1945
Kyläraittien kuningas
6/2
Laikan Otto falls in love with a fair-haired beauty at the market, who later turns out to be Elina, daughter of the wealthy Orttenmaa family. The girl...
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Kyläraittien kuningas
1949
Kanavan laidalla
4.25/4
Eerikki Lind, a young university student working as a sailor, falls in love with the beautiful Kirsti on the canal. The budding Midsummer romance betw...
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Kanavan laidalla
1953
Kuningas kulkureitten
5.2/5
The young Count Martin von Tandenskiöld who has returned from the war is forced into a battle with a Russian colonel after he harasses his bride Karin...
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Kuningas kulkureitten
1953
Alaston malli karkuteillä
3.667/6
A comedy about a poor artist who is accidentally accused of the murder of his fiancee.
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Alaston malli karkuteillä
1954
Laivan kannella
7/2
Young sailor Arvi falls in love with a dance girl Kerttu in a Spanish tavern, who says that she is half-Finnish and wants to go find her real father.
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Laivan kannella
1959
Iskelmäketju
5.333/3
Comedic musical film in which Iskelmä OY's manager has to deal with rising stars and old seniors.
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Iskelmäketju
1971
Saatanan radikaalit
3.375/4
Pave, Hese, Timppa, and Viiksi have ended up in Hell, where the heat makes them feel as comfortable as in a sauna. The bosses there don't like this, s...
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