Åke Leonard Lindman was a Finnish stage and screen actor, film and stage director. In his youth he was a football player, playing defence for the Finnish national team during the Olympics in Helsinki 1952. His breakthrough as an actor came with his role as the stubborn soldier Lehto in Edvin Laine's movie The Unknown Soldier from 1955.
The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries. This film depicts the true events through five separate stories.
Release Date:2007-12-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:29
A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced some of the most grueling battles against the Soviet Union.
Release Date:2004-03-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:19
Fire, water, wind, earth and emptiness... Five core elements of life that once inspired a book. The Book of Fate. Far away from here there was a mythical world -free of suffering and injustice. But it wasn't enough. People wanted to play God... They created a pen to control the Book of Fate. Mightier than a sword, it could write off deeds -and bring back the dead. But the book gave power, power caused fear -and fear brought suffering. And the suffering caused wars. Darkness fell on earth, making demands on the pen and the book. But the book was gone. It was thought to be lost forever -but hundreds of years later it reappeared on a small planet called Earth. The prophecy says: Only the chosen will get a second chance from the book. The destiny of the chosen one is to guide the book back. But his journey will be long, filled with errors and grief. This is his story.
Release Date:2003-03-06
Character:Galagf
Vote Count:9
A little girl gets separated from her teddy bear and is inconsolable.
Release Date:1999-11-05
Vote Count:4
In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north. The friends find gold at the first excavation site, which Kittilä's crown prince Konrad Planting and Edvard Manninen also start looking for.
Release Date:1999-09-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:9
Release Date:1997-06-12
Character:Åke Lindman
Episode Count:9
Release Date:1996-09-13
Character:Kalevi Wallin, VR:n pääjohtaja
Vote Count:3
Class 7A are on a school trip in Gotland. Class supervisor Gia believes a restless soul is haunting the house they're staying in. Student Vanessa claims the floor in her room rocks like a boat at sea during the nights, and becomes inexplicably seasick. Gia finds the passenger list from the sunken ship with the same name as the house they're living in - Pemba. The number of people on the list is the same as the number of teachers and students in the house. Five women, eight men. 70 years later. What is about to happen, what secrets are lurking behind the walls of the house Pemba?
Release Date:1996-03-19
Character:Handelsmannen
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:5
A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...
Release Date:1996-02-02
Character:Åke Zetterlund
Vote Count:110
Lotat is a Finnish Documentary about the Lotta Svärd, a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organization for women.
Release Date:1995-10-13
Character:Man Reading Aloud in Prologue
A heavily indebted construction entrepreneur robs a bank in Jakomäki, Helsinki. He takes two officers and one customer hostage from the bank. In addition to himself, the desperate robber threatens to blow up the hostages if the police who left to follow them try to prevent the escape.
Release Date:1995-02-24
Character:President (voice)
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1994-03-01
Character:Rune Lager
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:1
Inspector Timo Harjunpää works on harassment and extortion campaign case against successful computer expert.
Release Date:1993-09-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Release Date:1991-07-05
Character:Stålhane
Vote Count:1
Finnish friends escape taxes to Florida.
Release Date:1990-02-09
Character:Otto
Vote Count:8
Young Charlie becomes a farmhand on a remote Swedish island during the early 19th century. His master is a pirate who, together with his two daughters, live on killing shipwrecked sailors and stealing their cargo. Eventually, Charlie begins to question the correctness of his master living.
Release Date:1989-09-26
Character:Skipper
Vote Count:2
A serial killer who slaughters campers is on the loose in Sweden. The lead detectives make a breakthrough when the killer, a cloaked figure wielding a sword and a strange mask, sends the police a video recording.
Release Date:1988-09-23
Vote Count:3
Release Date:1988-01-02
Character:Timo
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:1
On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.
Release Date:1987-10-30
Character:Principal
Vote Count:5
Harry Friberg receives a photo assignment at Lindarängen's airport in Stockholm. The assignment turns into a nightmare when the photographer is invited to a crayfish party by the company's director.
Release Date:1987-10-26
Character:David Dreyer
Vote Count:2
On a hot August day, Harry Friberg gets an urgent assignment: to photograph United Air's shining new floatplane at the Lindarängen air harbor in Stockholm. The evening's crayfish party to celebrate the acquisition turns out uniquely unpleasant - and when the manger totals his car, and the chief pilot crashes into the sea after take-off, Harry realizes that a horrible crime has been committed, and it's time to call police commissioner Vesper Johnson.
Release Date:1987-10-26
Character:David Dreyer
Episode Count:2
Spring 1944 - shortage of fuel, refugees, antisemitism and Swedish home made nazism. Eleven year old Ragnar grows up in a home where the parents look forward to a Nazi power takeover in Sweden. At his grandmother, Ragnar meets other thoughts and opinions than at home. Karl Gerhard entertains on the radio. As well as Zarah Leander. It's a chaotic and contradictory time for a boy. Ragnar's Nazi parents still hope for a Nazi-German victory in the war.
Release Date:1987-02-18
Character:Uncle Gösta
Writer and psychiatrist Oscar Parland (1912-1997) narrates this nostalgic story about his early childhood memories and fantasies. Five-year-old Riki spends the summer of 1917 at his cosmopolitan family's summer house by the Gulf of Finland. Surrounded by other children and eccentric adults who speak Swedish, German and Russian, Riki also encounters some fantastic animal characters no one else is able to see.
Release Date:1986-12-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.
Release Date:1984-12-21
Character:Järnstedt
Vote Count:3
The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish sulton to help him defeat his arch enemy, the czar of Russia, Peter the Great. But the Turks think he's an expensive guest and want him out of Turkey. However, he refuses. The sultan then decides to send Karl XII a princess to marry him, to get him out of the country (a bride for a bribe). The two Swedish soldiers Lagercrona and Kruus are to escort the princess. They experience many different adventures on their way to Bender, namely because other Swedish soldiers and agents try to stop them from ever reaching the village, because they don't want Karl XII to leave Turkey. After their long adventure to get there and a few misunderstandings, the famous "kalabalik" of Bender, where the Turks decide to drive Karl XII out of Turkey by force, begins.
Release Date:1983-08-26
Vote Count:5
A story of how a team of lumberjacks react when the forest company wants to introduce the chainsaw.
Release Date:1983-04-20
Character:Evert
"The Scam" - A truck driver and his job colleagues figures out how to make the smart move, on their many trips to Finland: Tinkering with cargo pallets that can be sold illegal.
Release Date:1982-10-21
Vote Count:6
Drug dealer Aki is taken to hospital after a violent attack where he loses his merchandise and money. One of the paramedics, old Eino, befriends Aki later in the hospital and offers him a summer job after hearing that he has training in first aid. Eino even offers Aki a place to stay next to his ambulance garage. This provides Aki a perfect hiding place from his former employers who are after him. At the garage, Aki learns about life and the art of archery from peaceful Eino, and falls in love with Eino's daughter Lena who works at the ambulance switchboard. But no hiding place is good enough to last forever.
Release Date:1982-10-08
Character:Eino Kanerva, "Eikka"
Holger gets called a zombie by his son because he seems so boring. After this he decides to quit working and focuses on his own happiness instead.
Release Date:1982-08-31
Character:Port Foreman
Vote Count:2
A different family comedy in three parts with the man in the center. A beautiful and instructive story about a small, fat, middle-aged agency manager with a high salary. We get to follow the bullied and exploited Holger in his difficult struggle from pupa to fly-ready butterfly.
Release Date:1982-08-31
Character:Port Foreman
Episode Count:3
Lars Levi Laestadius (1800-1861), founded a Lutheran revival movement in the early 19th century in the north parts of Sweden. It had tremendous impact on local people and the followers increased rapidly. Puritanism and suffering went hand in hand on the narrow road to the kingdom of heaven.
Release Date:1982-02-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Release Date:1981-12-25
Department:Production
Job:Production Consultant
Character:Scandinavian Escort
Vote Count:333
Satire showing what can happen when a charismatic but unknown person gets a chance to share their political views in a TV programme.
Release Date:1981-11-01
Character:TV-chefen
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1981-11-01
Character:TV-chefen
Episode Count:3
Release Date:1978-11-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
A major routine explosion is to be carried out at a power plant, but it does not work properly.
Release Date:1978-02-17
Character:Rurik Lindgren
Vote Count:1
The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off. A movie about insurance scams. Inspector Susikoski investigates.
Release Date:1978-01-20
Character:inspector Olavi Susikoski
Vote Count:3
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Release Date:1977-12-16
Character:Lieutenant Alexandrov
Vote Count:117
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Release Date:1976-12-24
Department:Production
Job:Production Consultant
Vote Count:337
Maija is married off to her neighbors son Janne, and the Newlywed couple moves to uninhabited island in Åland archipelago, middle of the Baltic Sea in the mid-19th century. Death, war and love makes her stronger than his opponent: the merciless North Sea.
Release Date:1976-04-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Some teenagers are on collision course with society and older generations.
Release Date:1970-11-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear nightmare.
Release Date:1968-11-14
Character:Soldier Releasing Lakota (uncredited)
Vote Count:69
Release Date:1967-12-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Onni Lintula, a journalist interested in ancient sights and a glacier has joined the Cypriot peacekeeping force. On the beach he falls in love with the local beauty Stalo. Despite the turbulent situation, strict moral rules and the obstruction of Stalo’s brother, Onni and Stalo find each other.
Release Date:1965-04-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
Vote Count:2
Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.
Release Date:1964-11-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Arvo Mäki
Vote Count:3
Release Date:1964-11-09
Character:Huttunen
Episode Count:3
The Vorna brothers search for a hidden valley and its treasures.
Release Date:1963-11-08
Character:Joel Vorna
Vote Count:2
Sisters Pirkko and Brita travel to Aulango together with their landlady Sigrid to look for wealthy spouses. At the same time brothers Erkki and Olavi hope to find girls who would love them for their own sake and not for their money.
Release Date:1963-08-02
Character:Technical Manager (uncredited)
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1963-03-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
A western set in the "Wild North".
Release Date:1963-02-01
Character:Joel Vorna
Vote Count:2
Release Date:1962-10-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1962-08-17
Character:Åke Lindman (uncredited)
Vote Count:2
A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves to a small rural village to start a new life with a new name and his new money, but finds that it's harder to escape his past than he thought it would be.
Release Date:1962-08-03
Character:Oke Järvinen
Vote Count:3
At Pösökylä's lodge, Taneli injures her leg in fur hunter Eemel's wolf irons, and Eemeli decides to take up the position of lodge lodge. During the leave of office, Eemeli gives lessons to the rich Petter who rules the village and arranges the engagement of his daughter Ilona to the blacksmith Ilmar. At the same time, the affairs of the coffee bar owner Bertta are also put in order and the prisoner escaper Luukas is caught.
Release Date:1962-05-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Release Date:1962-02-09
Character:(uncredited)
Vote Count:3
Release Date:1961-12-29
Character:Urpo
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1961-12-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:(uncredited)
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.
Release Date:1961-12-01
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Character:Hermansson
Vote Count:10
Göte is a young teen who seems to be at odds with his family and may not know his own mind that well either. Discontented and rebellious, Göte joins up with two mean-spirited game poachers in spite of the fact that he loves animals and nature. This contradiction between his own feelings and his need to rebel reaches a climax when a forest ranger starts to track down the young men in ever-tightening circles.
Release Date:1961-09-25
Character:Sten Sundberg
Vote Count:11
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
Release Date:1960-11-27
Character:Malkolm
Episode Count:24
Vote Count:11
Release Date:1960-02-24
Character:Liukas
Vote Count:1
Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki.
Release Date:1960-01-15
Character:Jukka
Three brothers, all with their own problems that could be solved by money, try to come up with a plan to get they share of their uncle's fortune. Then a murder takes place and it is the job of a detective to find out which one of the brothers did it.
Release Date:1959-11-20
Character:Mauri Petäjämaa
Vote Count:1
Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
Release Date:1959-05-01
Character:Mike
Vote Count:3
Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned by the International Conference of Science, at Geneva, to study body function and survival in outer space. Holmes had discovered Wolf as a pup in the forest, only to lose him again in a flood, and is fearful of risking the dog's life again.
Release Date:1959-03-01
Character:Head logger
Vote Count:1
The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
Release Date:1958-02-01
Character:David Frohm
Vote Count:16
It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place. The Soviet occupation is strong, and on the Finnish side it is ordered to withdraw. But Captain Viktor Aaltonen does not listen to the order but wants to shorten a wounded companion's suffering. Aaltonen is taken to the Soviet prison camp, Vorkuta, where he will spend a decade.
Release Date:1957-10-16
Character:escaped prisoner
Release Date:1957-10-04
Character:Teemu 'Pupu' Järvinen
Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
Release Date:1957-09-20
Character:Samuel Bro
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1957-08-09
Character:(uncredited)
Marjatta lives in poor conditions in Tampere with her widowed father Arttu who works as a factory worker. Marjatta gets to know engineering student Pauli whose constantly worsening mental health problems and jealousy become a threat to Marjatta and her close circle.
Release Date:1957-04-05
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:5
Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery disguised as a choir boy, but is revealed by a monk Rasmus, who also desires her, and is put on trial.
Release Date:1957-03-01
Vote Count:3
Remembering the past, Rea returns to the moment that changed her life. Coming of age, Rea's alcoholic fate is wrapped around two men, composer Tauno Tarras and sea captain Erkki.
Release Date:1956-09-21
Character:Erkki
Vote Count:6
In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a number of bachelors, ranging from simple farmhand Väinö to sophisticated young student Armas whom she meets when working for a charming old professor. However, Silja's health starts to deteriorate, and when the Finnish Civil War breaks up in 1918, she is inadvertently involved in a small incident after which her loyalties are questioned by both the Reds and the Whites.
Release Date:1956-04-26
Character:Valkoisten komppanianpäällikkö
Vote Count:4
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
Release Date:1955-12-23
Character:Lehto
Vote Count:67
Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the ship, they get into the wrong track and come across prostitution and drug crime.
Release Date:1955-11-18
Character:Martti
Vote Count:1
A lock factory worker Pertti would like to marry his girlfriend Verna, but fears they don't have enough money. His brother Martti is a member of a youth gang that is planning a robbery with three other young men. When the boys have to flee at the time of the robbery, Pertti who secretly shadowed them sees an opportunity to solve his money problem.
Release Date:1955-08-26
Character:Pertti Kuusi
A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
Release Date:1955-05-27
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Character:Eino Kustaala
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1955-05-06
Character:Arpi
Vote Count:5
Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and take Justiina along as a bait.
Release Date:1954-07-30
Character:Riku Sundman
Vote Count:11
Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In chronological order of the Niskavuori series, the film is the fourth. Aarne has married Ilona and left the house in Niskavuori, which he hosts, where his former wife Martta still lives, while the old mistress is holding the reins. Aarne and Ilona live in Helsinki, but Aarne has not been able to completely break away from Niskavuori, but keeps secretly in touch with the headmaster and gives instructions on the farm management.
Release Date:1954-03-25
Vote Count:6
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. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.
Release Date:1954-01-29
Character:Prisoner
Vote Count:3
The film tells the story of the romance between the timber rafters and widow Kaisa, her daughter Satu and Katri from Karkela. Problems are caused by the men in the village, especially the Master of Karkela, who has his own plans for widow's land.
Release Date:1953-07-24
Character:Kymmpi
Vote Count:2
Pete and Runt set up a kindergarten at their home, and unknowingly end up taking care of a kidnapped baby.
Release Date:1953-04-30
Character:Petteri (uncredited)
Vote Count:7
A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.
Release Date:1953-02-27
Character:'Bear'
Vote Count:1
The two sons of the Forsgården estate - Arne and Arthur - both fall for the same woman, the beautiful but poor Lea. She has on the other hand only eyes for Arne. After Arne during a fight thinks he has killed a log driver and flees, Lea finds herself in a difficult situation and is forced to marry Arthur.
Release Date:1953-01-12
Character:Arthur
Vote Count:2
Åke Strandberg has managed to get a fine education and a good job at the bank, but he wants more. He wants to get rich no matter what. After holidays with his girl Rita, he comes back to Helsinki completely broke and meets up with his buddy Jussi in a bar. For months they embezzle money from the bank, but eventually do realize they have to cover the missing amount by orchestrating and committing a robbery which will then rouse the interest of the police. A hide and seek follows as they try to make their way abroad.
Release Date:1952-10-31
Character:Åke Strandberg
Vote Count:1
A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.
Release Date:1952-07-18
Character:Forester
Vote Count:67
Three Finnish girls travel to Stockholm to look for work. But soon they notice that the big city is not such a great place as they thought. Most of the foreign men who they meet there are crooks and liars.
Release Date:1952-04-04
Character:Erik
Vote Count:3
In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.
Release Date:1950-09-01
Character:Prisoner in Siberia inciting a mutiny
Vote Count:3
In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
Release Date:1950-08-11
Vote Count:3
The brothers of Yli-Koskela farm fall for the same woman. Then Aarne believes he has killed a man. Artturi sees the case and saves the man from drowning to the rapids. He takes advantage of the situation and tells the woman, Lea, that his brother is a murderer.
Release Date:1949-02-25
Character:Artturi Yli-Koskela
Vote Count:6