
Jussi Jurkka
Actor · 1930 – 1982 · Turku, Finland
Jussi Jurkka (1930–1982) was a Finnish stage, film and television actor. He was the youngest son of actors Eino and Emmi Jurkka and brother of actors Sakari and Vappu Jurkka.
Movies24
Movie7.3DramaWarIrma has been sent to the front immediately after her marriage to Erik Vuori. Irma and her new "Lotta" companions find themselves in many dangerous situations during the fighting of the Continuation War. Irma is also concerned about Erik's loyalty.
Rintamalotta
1956 · 3 votes
Movie7.3DramaRomanceA melodrama based on Aino Räsänen's novel of the same name, continuing the story of the Junkker family.
Näkemiin Helena
1955 · 3 votes
Movie5.5DramaFollows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol.
Viimeinen savotta
1977 · 11 votes
Movie5.3DramaIrmeli worships the memory of her deceased composer father, but falls in love with her mother Ruuti's new fiancé, Dr. Hallamaa. Unhappy love depresses Irmeli, and she tries to run away to Sweden. Antti, an engineering student who lives as a tenant in the family's home, sets off after Irmeli to bring her back home.
Irmeli, seitsentoistavuotias
1948 · 3 votes
Movie7.2DramaWarIt 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.
Movie7.2ComedyAging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his study) and back to real life. He can hardly recognize his rebellious teenage kids and materialistic wife who hardly seem to notice his existence. The only person who is interested in the professor's work is Marja, his son's girlfriend and freshman at the university. An innocent infatuation flares up between the old man and the young girl, while the professor's family is only interested in the prize money awarded to the professor by an international jury for his academic achievements.
Kuriton sukupolvi
1957 · 5 votes
Movie5.8ComedyCrimeLasse 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.
Kovanaama
1954 · 4 votes
Movie6.3ComedyA famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.
Lasisydän
1959 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedyCrimeA closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
Movie3.8DramaHistoryIn December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence.
Movie6.6DramaA former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
Movie7.0DramaGrandmother Helena Junkkeri is working on a farm that her widowed son Arttu is unable to take on. Taina Raitalo who arrives at the house as a childminder makes the grieving man smile again, and Artu's little sister Päivi in turn delights the entire Junkkeri family with her achievements.
Pää pystyyn Helena
1957 · 3 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. An office manager promises to take the blame if the manager promises to behave better.
Miljoonavaillinki
1961 · 1 votes
Movie5.3DramaMarjatta 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.
Musta rakkaus
1957 · 7 votes
Movie5.5ComedyOtto and Kaija have celebrated their surprise wedding, but after a coctail party nothing between them is the same as Otto does not remember what actually happened, and the mess is ready when Otto's American uncle who hates women comes for a visit.
Myöhästynyt hääyö
1960 · 4 votes
Movie3.8DramaAfter returning home from being a prisoner of war Viktor gets a job from his friend Rolf with whom he had served. The men trust each other until Viktor meets Rolf’s wife Astrid.
Verta käsissämme
1958 · 4 votes
Movie4.2ComedySailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.
Laivaston monnit maissa
1954 · 4 votes
Movie4.2DramaRomanceEerikki Lind, a young university student working as a sailor, falls in love with the beautiful Kirsti on the canal. The budding Midsummer romance between the young people is overshadowed by jealousy and the tragic love story of Kirsti's parents.
Kanavan laidalla
1949 · 4 votes
Movie5.0ComedyRomancePoor orphan coffee delivery girl loves a poor painter who can't sell his artworks. Painter likes delivery girl, but has stuck in a friend zone. Delivery girl tries to help the painter to get forward in his career, but meanwhile a rich woman becomes too interested towards the painter.
Tähtisilmä
1955 · 3 votes
Movie7.3DramaLasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the Helena series. When the Winter War breaks out, Arttu (Jussi Jurkka), the son of Helena (Irma Seikkula) and Jari Junkkeri (Erkki Viljos), go to the front. Arttu proposes to his girlfriend Elina (Leena Häkinen), but the world events come in between. When he is not heard of at the end of the war, the relatives begin to believe that Arttu is dead - everybody else but not Helena.
…ja Helena soittaa
1951 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaA story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.
Movie6.8DramaPitch-noir melodrama about young Kauko's endless obsession and love-hate-relationship with Osmi, a girl he has known since childhood. Standing at her death bed, Kauko reminisces his years spent as a sailor, prisoner, smuggler, and a soldier in the Second World War, while Osmi manages to evolve from prostitution to a seemingly happy family life with someone else.
Jokin ihmisessä
1956 · 4 votes
Movie7.0DramaWarThe story follows Commander-in-Chief Mannerheim and Quartermaster General Airo at the Finnish Defense Forces headquarters in Mikkeli during the decisive moments of the Continuation War in the summer of 1944. With a major offensive on the Karelian Isthmus imminent, Airo gives the order to attack without consulting the commander-in-chief.
Päämaja
1970 · 4 votes
Movie6.0DramaA couple decides to adopt a child. At the orphanage, they hear three different stories about the children who have arrived there and their fates.
Kolmiapila
1953 · 4 votes
Series1
- TV7.5Comedy
Parempi myöhään
1979 · 4 votes