Antti Pesonen (Writer)

Playing Solo

Emma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think they're a perfect match. Emma discovers she is pregnant and ends up taking care of Joel's mother while he goes off on tour to conduct around the world. Pregnancy, a crazy mother-in-law, trust, and loyalty test the couple to make the right decisions.

Release Date2007-12-28

Charactersd Taksikuski

Vote Count14

Hustlers

The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.

Release Date2010-12-25

Charactersd Rapajuoppo

Vote Count18

Bordertown: The Mural Murders

A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge.

Release Date2021-10-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count97

Nymphs

They live among us, forever young and deadly seductive. And unlike vamps, it's not blood they crave from their male, as 17-year-old Didi Tiensuu discovers when she beds her boyfriend for the first time and promptly kills him. The sultry nymphs Kati and Nadia take Didi under their wings in her new life as a divine being and sexual predator.

Release Date2014-03-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count19

A Good Family

Anna and Henrik are thrust into a dangerous underworld when their son brings a heinous crime to their doorstep. Parental instincts quickly overcome morality as the couple does everything in their power to protect their family and future.

Release Date2022-11-30

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count7

Bullets

An ex-terrorist, Madina Taburova, who was presumed dead, turns up in Helsinki seeking political asylum. Using a fake identity, the Intelligence Agency officer Mari Saari has to befriend this ex-terrorist to find out why she’s here. In order to uncover the mystery, Mari Saari has to form an unlikely partnership with an older streetwise narcotics cop. But everything is not as it seems.

Release Date2018-10-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Vote Count12

Love Records

The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.

Release Date2016-01-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count11

Heroes of the Baltic Sea

Release Date2016-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count2

Kansan mies

The life of Aki Honkala, a blindly dedicated Member of the European Parliament, takes a radical turn during one scandal-plagued election night. The fall from grace is no surprise to anyone but himself. The people have spoken, let the chatter go - but what remains of a man who has lived and breathed politics for most of his adult life?

Release Date2013-11-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Lukio

Release Date2008-01-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Sorjonen – Tappamisen taito

Sorjonen is searching for a serial killer in Lappeenranta.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter