Vesa-Matti Loiri
Vesa-Matti Loiri (4 January 1945 – 10 August 2022) was a Finnish actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro. Loiri was one of Finland's most appreciated entertainment artists.
Vesa-Matti Loiri (4 January 1945 – 10 August 2022) was a Finnish actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro. Loiri was one of Finland's most appreciated entertainment artists.
CIA Agent Harry Howe and SVR Agent Natasha Scriabina team up to save the world, their lives and secret love in post Cold War Helsinki.
Release Date1999-09-10
Charactersd Shopkeeper
Vote Count16
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.
Release Date2012-08-24
Charactersd Leo Porola
Vote Count34
Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.
Release Date1997-12-05
Charactersd Eugen Von Lahtinen
Vote Count44
Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service.
Release Date1998-01-11
Charactersd Vesa-Matti Loiri
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash.
Release Date2003-01-17
Charactersd Jouko Takkunen
Vote Count49
Release Date2002-01-08
Charactersd Gisella Mai
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Humoristic police series made by Kummeli comedy group. It includes some characters from Kummeli TV-series.
Release Date1996-05-05
Charactersd Dunlop
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
A summery, boozy road movie in which Leo aimlessly drives a group of aging teddy bears through the Finnish countryside in a red Cadillac. The film centers on the bromance of middle-aged men, booze, and pizza, which they decide to order to their moving car. Not even a Russian truck driver, Stakes' alcohol recommendations, or the police can stop this gang.
Release Date2002-05-31
Charactersd Leo
Vote Count15
Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too.
Release Date1983-02-25
Charactersd Heikki Öljynen
Vote Count7
Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in the group, too, with his wife and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet. Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.
Release Date1985-09-27
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro / Nasse-setä
Vote Count25
Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.
Release Date1999-03-12
Charactersd Himanen, entinen merimies
Vote Count9
Krokelby in the 1920s. Sakris Kukkelman is a crippled, Nietzsche reading village idiot who believes himself to be a romantic hero.
Release Date1975-12-05
Charactersd Sakris Kukkelman
Vote Count4
Uuno Turhapuro is a lazy man who abhors manual labor, but has the ability to talk himself out of any sticky situation, usually with his long-suffering wife. In this, his first feature film appearance, Uuno embarrasses his wife in public, tricks his best friend, accidentally goes on a diet, and becomes a famous violinist.
Release Date1973-08-24
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count18
Release Date1998-12-20
Charactersd Juutas Käkriäinen
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
Uuno Turhapuro finds his doppelganger, Hugo, who happens to be a computer genius. Hugo helps Uuno save his father-in-law's business (and Uuno's inheritance) while Uuno helps Hugo win the heart of the love of his life.
Release Date1988-08-26
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro / Hugo Töttersberg
Vote Count14
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...
Release Date1962-11-02
Charactersd Jaakko 'Jake' Hoikka
Vote Count28
OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandbox as characters aged 4, 5 and 6. Pasanen even has his trademark beard, for Christ's sake!
Release Date1986-12-25
Charactersd Make / Amiraali Jäpälä
Vote Count20
Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
Release Date1981-09-25
Charactersd Usko
Vote Count10
Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a new road. Tuura however is set on preventing this.
Release Date1986-08-29
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count17
A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.
Release Date1993-02-05
Charactersd Father
Vote Count9
Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
Release Date2004-09-10
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count14
The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictatorship.
Release Date2005-09-09
Charactersd Verneri
Vote Count7
A look at the life and music of Pekka Streng who died at the age of 26 in 1975.
Release Date2009-10-16
Charactersd himself
Vote Count8
Long-time cohabiting couple Petteri and Liisa wake up with a terrible hangover and realize to their horror that they got married the night before. Throughout the day, the couple argues and reminisces about their previous relationships, but by evening they are ready to reconcile.
Release Date1972-02-18
DepartmentSound
JobOriginal Music Composer
Charactersd Osku
Vote Count4
Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.
Release Date1984-08-31
DepartmentWriting
JobIdea
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count25
Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
Release Date1991-08-23
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count12
Rauta-aika (The Age of Iron) is a dramatic four-part miniseries completed in 1982 by Finnish broadcast network Yle TV2. The production attempts to adapt the national epic of Finland, the Kalevala, for the television audience by way of humanizing the mythological characters whose thoughts and actions drive the narrative. The protagonists of Rauta-aika, Väinö, Ilmari and Lemminki, have been inspired by the tales in the Kalevala and go in search of a woman, eventually finding themselves at war with the Nordic people, and in the end pay dearly for their pursuits.
Release Date1982-02-28
Charactersd Ilmari
Episode Count4
Vote Count8
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.
Release Date1994-09-16
Charactersd Taiteilija Loiri
Vote Count14
Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his finger. He is then cloned into a test-tube adult named Richard Ilyevitch Jyrä by his creator Dr. Jyrä.
Release Date1979-10-12
Charactersd gangsteri Luigi / virkailija kirkkoherranvirastossa / vodkaturisti / Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count18
L. Onerva and Eino Leino - two people, two rebels, prisoners of a difficult love relationship. Along with two passionate poets, there will be a third wheel, a young and talented composer Leevi Madetoja.
Release Date2003-11-03
Charactersd Eino Leino
Vote Count4
Jussi, a student admired by all women, is inadvertently selected to represent both left-wing and right-wing parties in the parliamentary elections. All Jussi cares about is the beautiful, blonde Irmeli.
Release Date1970-04-17
Charactersd Jussi Lietesalo
Vote Count6
Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to see an old Finnish friend who lives on a farm in the countryside of Finland. It’s the most remote place Cheng can imagine with endless forests, thousands of lakes, a country with entire population of one-fifth of Cheng’s home town, Shanghai.
Release Date2019-09-27
Charactersd Vilppula
Vote Count70
Release Date1988-01-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd
Episode Count30
Vote Count1
Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.
Release Date1971-02-26
Charactersd Jaska Hujanen
Vote Count6
This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.
Release Date1990-08-24
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro / Tyyne
Vote Count10
Gangsters try to steal Uuno Turhapuro's father-in-law's money by infiltrating into the family through Uuno, by pretending he has a long-lost son.
Release Date1993-08-13
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count9
Release Date1986-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobIdea
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Episode Count7
Vote Count2
Nikolai Savitsenko, aka Nig, runs Crimes for You Ltd, whose other employees are Hikka, Pete and Nig's little sister Mandi. While they are planning the heist of the century, robbing a bank's cash transport vehicle, the gang continues with their usual scams. They divert parking fines to the wrong account, one belonging to Inspector Koistinen, arrange a pre-arranged lottery line by bribing the authorities, and break into a political party's secret office to blow up the safe. Inspector Koistinen is in a tight spot. To make matters worse, he is assigned a new partner, Eevariita, who soon figures out that the same gang is behind all the scams.
Release Date1986-11-14
Charactersd Hikka
Vote Count14
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 help of his chamberlain. Both toy manufacturers hire gangster chief Niitti to handle their twilight jobs, but not everything goes according to plan.
Release Date1969-08-22
Charactersd Kamreeri
Vote Count8
Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.
Release Date1987-08-28
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count16
The story of a man raised in a boy's home and prison who doesn't conform to the rules and discipline of the military.
Release Date1977-09-16
Charactersd Kauppala
Vote Count2
Woman unexpectedly meets Satan in her attic.
Release Date1999-11-18
Charactersd Kuolema
Two brothers from Häme discover that they are actually from Karelia. During the celebration of the newfound fact, one of the brothers is bitten by a bug. After seeking medical help from a doctor - who tries to tell the brothers that he is not a doctor of medicine - the doctor decides to trick the boys by convincing them that the insect in question is called Insectum propellatum, also known as the aviation bug, and unless the affected brother learns how to fly, the bite might turn fatal. During their shenanigans, they become acquainted with a robot that runs on booze, two scoundrels, and the beautiful Miss Universe!
Release Date1984-02-17
Charactersd Robotti
Vote Count9
Uuno's father-in-law is running for president and to avoid embarrassment pressures Uuno to finally get a job, which he does at a hardware store. Meanwhile, a political rival sends a bionic female agent to seduce Uuno in hopes of creating a scandal, and Uuno develops a ploy where he pretends to be his long-lost brother from America.
Release Date1978-08-25
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count12
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, the noble Sir William, arrives. At the same time, the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood, who helps the poor, sets up camp in the nearby woods. When the estate threatens to fall into Sir William's hands and the peasants rise up against von Wurstburg's excesses in Robin Hood's footsteps, the lord finds himself in a double bind.
Release Date1968-08-23
Charactersd 1. huovi
Vote Count10
Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.
Release Date1998-08-28
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count15
Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage.
Release Date1981-10-16
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count16
'Tup-Akka-Lakko' is a sequel to 'Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit' in which doctor Jyrä invented a test-tube-adult who looked exactly like Mutikainen, a mathematician. When the test-tube-adult's body emerged, his voice moved into Mutikainen's body because of the doctor's error. Problems ensue.
Release Date1980-10-03
Charactersd Gangsteri Luigi, Rauno Riipainen, Kirkkoherranviraston virkailija
Vote Count13
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
Release Date2011-12-30
Charactersd Mynttinen
Vote Count17
Lasse is a car salesman who has vowed to never get married. He wakes up hung over one morning with a wedding ring on his finger and a nude woman in his bed.
Release Date1973-06-12
Charactersd Lena's Ex (uncredited)
Vote Count9
Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.
Release Date1991-10-18
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro (uncredited)
Vote Count15
Release Date1998-10-18
Charactersd Leonardo Da Mac Gyver
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.
Release Date1982-09-17
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count19
It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen buys a lottery ticket for Uuno, who agrees to deduct it from his debt – and the festive dinner is reduced to a can of milk and half a sausage. As it happens, Uuno becomes the lottery winner of 1.5 million marks, only to soon realize he doesn't own a single penny yet. Mister Tossavainen arrives and offers to finance Uuno before he actually gets the jackpot. Thus, Uuno gets to live a rich live on credit. He buys a raccoon fur, leopard swimming trunks and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes. Women begin to fancy Uuno and so does his father-in-law. As time goes by it is revealed, though, that Uuno is not actually a lottery winner, and so he has to escape the anger of others to Härski's car repair shop.
Release Date1976-08-27
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count14
Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany.
Release Date1975-08-29
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count17
The story of Finnish boxer Joni, who brings up a son Simppa from his relationship with Polish girlfriend Eva. The mother left them years ago and returned to Poland. Eve is about to marry, but she still loves Joni.
Release Date1992-08-28
Charactersd Valmentaja
Vote Count1
The TV film depicts the loneliness that follows divorce.
Release Date1979-12-12
Charactersd Seth Mattson
Vote Count1
The film is based on characters from the Mänttien TV-asema sketches featured on the Spede Show.
Release Date1985-02-08
DepartmentWriting
JobDialogue
Charactersd Auvo
Vote Count9
Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find a suitable place for the mass suicide.
Release Date2000-03-03
Charactersd Mikko Heikkinen
Vote Count19
Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the reward, through the desert without water and fighting against Indians. And just to find out that they have made a full circle back to origin.
Release Date1971-08-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Yksinäinen Ratsastaja
Vote Count18
Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn Finland into a kingdom.
Release Date1992-08-14
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count17
Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.
Release Date1983-09-30
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count19
Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky’s famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen.
Release Date1967-01-14
Charactersd Aljoshka
Vote Count1
Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
Release Date1969-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd film director Paavali Pohja
Vote Count7
TV studio organizer Mikko Syvärinen becomes the admired comedian K. Ovimikko through a series of mishaps. However, Mikko's popularity wanes when he switches from door comedy to window comedy. His show is taken off the air, his girlfriend leaves him, and he loses his apartment. Once again, Mikko sets out to rebuild his TV career by becoming a producer again.
Release Date1969-02-28
Charactersd tv-toimittaja Antti Vasa
Vote Count11
Tiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daughter and new husband, they move in and start to renovate the old house. However, neither the renovation nor facing the past is effortless.
Release Date2015-08-21
Charactersd Urho
Vote Count9
Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law.
Release Date1977-08-26
Charactersd Uuno Turhapuro
Vote Count17
One woman’s desperate struggle to survive a horde of men with frail egos, who just want to explain everything to her. But the biggest horror may be closer to her than she thinks.
Release Date2018-04-21
Charactersd Ukki
Vote Count17
The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a mental hospital, where the hero does not have to spend too much time until he escapes. The miller takes to the woods near his home but there he is constantly harassed by the chief of the police with his posse.
Release Date1982-11-05
Charactersd Gunnar Huttunen
Vote Count11
In the 1970s, Turku City Theater staged an adaptation of Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers, directed by Kalle Holmberg. The premiere was in 1972, and performances continued for three years. The play was the biggest theatrical event of its time and a huge success with audiences. The brothers were played by the stars of the decade, with music by Kaj Chydenius. The TV movie was recorded from two public performances and close-ups were edited in.
Release Date1976-01-01
Charactersd Tuomas
The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.
Release Date1956-05-24
Charactersd Self - Contestant
Episode Count1
Vote Count36
"Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a significant career also as a singer, performer, writer and as a sportsman. He has recorded several albums, from folk songs and couplets to tangos. Some of his recordings are based on the lyrics of Hermann Hesse or Eino Leino, the infamous Finnish poet. During his unique career he has played in more than 60 films and recorded 30 albums.
Release Date2010-09-03
Charactersd Self
Vote Count13
A TV documentary about the Finnish comedy character Uuno Turhapuro.
Release Date1985-03-24
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Documentary about medium strength beer in Finland.
Release Date2004-01-18
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
A dramatized documentary film about singer-songwriter and lyricist Juha "Junnu" Vainio from Kotka.
Release Date2023-04-28
Charactersd Self
Finnish version of The Best Singers series. Each week, one artist is chosen and the remaining artists perform covers of their songs and are judged by that artist.
Release Date2012-10-05
Episode Count8
Vote Count4
Release Date1967-04-30
Episode Count47
Vote Count3
A theater group is training for the play Lapualaisooppera. We see these young people hanging out and talking about what goes on around them. Also sexual matters are involved there and this girl, Tenu, becomes pregnant to Hessu.
Release Date1967-12-01
Vote Count9