Hannu Kahakorpi (Director)

Kotikatu

Release Date1995-08-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Lääkäri

Episode Count83

Vote Count2

Milkshake

Release Date1994-01-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Komisario

Episode Count5

Isännät ja isäntien varjot

Time of depression in the 1930s. "Poverty and abundant wealth have simultaneously filled the earth's circle. The peasant's cornerstones are moving." Iso Herneinen's mistress is dead and grief lives in Jopi's heart. Jopi's grown-up boys are hardly happy. The eldest boy fell in love with the house maid. The middle one is, according to Jopi, a strange modern product. The youngest does not enjoy working or working at home. The three-part TV series tells about the peasant's collapse in years of depression.

Release Date1976-12-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Oras Herneinen

Episode Count3

The Border

The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.

Release Date2007-11-30

Charactersd kenraali Jyrinkoski

Vote Count26

Game Over

A movie inspired by a true crime - the coldblooded Heino double murder, committed by a group of teenagers - that shocked Finland in 2001.

Release Date2005-08-26

Charactersd Oikeuden puheenjohtaja

Vote Count10

Mommilan veriteot 1917

On the eve of the Finnish Civil War, the film follows the last days of Alfred Kordelin, the richest man in Finland.

Release Date1973-10-05

Charactersd Risto Ryti

Vote Count5

Rottasota

A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling establishment is also taken under the inspection. The daughter of the prime minister and her relation to the son of another minister of opposing party is especially under surveillance.

Release Date1968-03-31

Charactersd Mike

Vote Count1

The Manila Rope

Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.

Release Date1976-09-28

Charactersd Seonnut alikersantti

Vote Count4

The Novelist

The Päätalo film tells the story of Kalle Päätalo, a carpenter and master builder, and his burning desire to become a writer, as well as the long road that led to the creation of Päätalo's first novel. Too much hard work, too little love in his marriage, and too little self-confidence prevent Kalle Päätalo from realizing his lifelong dream of becoming a writer. Until he finds new love.

Release Date2008-09-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Pankinjohtaja 1

Vote Count7

Insiders

An afternoon newspaper reporter's tape recorder picks up sensitive information while he is working on a story about so-called yuppie culture. The picture shows the symbols of yuppie life, from muscle boats and convertibles to Mobira Cityman 900 mobile phones. However, a murder within the inner circle brings the superficial world of money and sex to a halt.

Release Date1989-03-03

Charactersd Inspector Koskinen

Vote Count7

Punahilkka

Tells the story of young Anja, a teenage girl living in an approved school (otherwise known as a reform school), and the problems she faces in the outside world after running away.

Release Date1968-11-01

Charactersd Hannu, automekaanikko

Vote Count3

Martinin rikos

A story about the conflicting emotions of love and hate, duty and selfishness in the human mind.

Release Date1980-12-05

Charactersd Lennart Ahlman

Kissa ja Varjo

Kissa is a former thief and Varjo is a police officer. One morning, a woman walks into the men's private detective agency, and they both fall in love with her. To avoid a fight, Varjo takes his boat and leaves. When the sunburnt man returns years later, the woman has been murdered and Kissa has disappeared.

Release Date1993-05-03

Charactersd Antti Varjo

Maigret

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

Release Date1991-12-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count21

Tuntemattomalle Jumalalle

Release Date1993-03-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count5

Dirty Hands

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.

Release Date1989-10-05

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count10

The Wedding Waltz

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.

Release Date1988-09-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count21

Raamit ränniin

A boy dreams to become like his ski jumping idol Jari Puikkonen. However, his parents are worried because he neglects the school. One day while going on practice, he rescues a baby left in a car with no parking brake hooked back up. The baby happens to be Puikkonen's son.

Release Date1985-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Onnellinen mies

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge construction site, but he quickly finds himself clashing against the local decision-makers. The bridge engineer is also popular with the ladies and, being a man of energy, he manages to take care of several of his admirers at once.

Release Date1979-05-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Lacrimosa

A story about love. A famous singer cannot let go of the memory of her late husband. She befriends a man her own age, and there should be nothing standing in the way of their happiness.

Release Date2008-01-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Lumikit

A hospital room drama in which women talk about love, children, relationships with men, and life in general. Stories of survival are seasoned with both tears and laughter.

Release Date1986-08-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kolme yötä

Release Date1989-04-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Viisi tytärtäni

Release Date1997-03-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Missä on suuri pohjoinen

Two completely different people meet on a journey from Helsinki's West Harbor to the Arctic Ocean.

Release Date1991-02-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Irti Maasta

A group of Finns have won a cruise and this is how they behave on it.

Release Date1990-05-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1