Jaakko Pakkasvirta
Jaakko Juhani Pakkasvirta (28 November 1934 – 23 March 2018) was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 30 films between 1958 and 2000. His 1975 film Home for Christmas was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1978 film Poet and Muse was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1342 |
| Birthday | 1934-11-28 |
| Place of Birth | Simpele, Finland |
| Also Known As | Jarkko Virta, Pierre Froid, B. Kivi, |
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
1958
Mies tältä tähdeltä
6/8
Office clerk Eero Koskinen prefers to spend his nights drinking and reminiscing the war with his friends, instead of taking care of his wife and two c...
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Mies tältä tähdeltä
1964
X-Paroni
4.65/10
Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both character...
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X-Paroni
1958
Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
5.7/10
Pekka Puupää and Pätkä involuntarily end up in Suez as peacekeepers. After saving the Caliph's daughter Suleiman from kidnappers on two occasions, the...
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Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
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
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
1986
Valkoinen kääpiö
4/4
The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.
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Valkoinen kääpiö
1965
Onnenpeli
5.091/11
Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight atten...
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Onnenpeli
1978
Poet and Muse
5.6/5
Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on...
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Poet and Muse
1970
Maaseudun tulevaisuus?
7/1
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Maaseudun tulevaisuus?
1970
Kesäkapina
5.143/7
Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl an...
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Kesäkapina
1963
Hopeaa rajan takaa
6/10
In the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist and Anttala decide to seek family silver hidden under Wist's home behind the border line of the truce.
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Hopeaa rajan takaa
1967
Town Is Our Future
7/3
With its sharp opinions, the film is a follow-up to the film Asuminen ja luonto (Living and Nature). One of the most important Finnish short films, it...
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Town Is Our Future
1961
Darling
10/1
Tells the story of a young couple using flashbacks.
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Darling
1963
Meren juhlat
4.667/6
Sini is waiting for her husband to return from a trip and starts thinking about her past relationship with Jaska. She invites him to a party, where ol...
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Meren juhlat
1986
Linna
5/6
Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-incr...
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