Vilho Ruuskanen
Actor · 1912 – 1980 · Terijoki, Finland
Movies24
Movie7.0ComedySecond adaptation of Teuvo Pakkala's popular play about Finnish lumberjacks.
Tukkijoella
1937 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaComedyOlli Suominen has been appointed acting sheriff in the countryside, and the whole family has left for Kesäranta to spend the summer. The peaceful rural life is interrupted when small farmer Pullin's hay barn is destroyed in a fire and Anita and Aarne, the Lokka family who have moved in next door, get to know the Suominen family.
Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen
1959 · 2 votes
Movie4.6ComedyPekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained as frogmen. During the diving exercises, the friends encounter the mermaid Helmi, whom they help into the bathtub at home, to Justiina's shock. The friends, who have become civilians, eventually end up on a plane bound for Suez, being cornered by UN soldiers.
Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä
1957 · 12 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.
Movie7.0DramaTimo learns about his grandfather Santeri's background in the workers' sports movement. Inspired by this, he begins to encourage his alcoholic father to practice his own sport, javelin throwing.
Veteraanin voitto
1955 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaCrimeA 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.
Rakkaus kahleissa
1955 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaHistoryA poet finds a new muse in young woman.
Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu
1940 · 1 votes
Movie5.7DramaCrimeInspector Susikoski is inspecting the murder of an agronom in the countryside, during his summer holiday trip. He participates to the investigation of the case. The case seems to be clear, but there is much more than meets the eye.
Kolmas laukaus
1959 · 3 votes
Movie5.5RomanceDramaSet in turn of the century Helsinki, author Arvo Helavalla's novel makes an indelible impression on adolescent Auli Ranta. She idolizes the author of a work that can never be forgotten.
Valkoiset ruusut
1943 · 11 votes
Movie9.0ComedyEemeli, a lazy farm boy, is sent out into the world by his parents due to poor potato harvest forecasts. On his way to the logging camp, he meets Tommi, a man from Helsinki who sells razors and is headed to the same destination. At the logging camp, the loggers and Eemeli perform several musical numbers and flee from Isabella, the cook, who is hungry for men.
Oho, sanoi Eemeli
1960 · 1 votes
Movie4.3ComedyMusicThe musical comedy tells the story of two friends about Usko and Toivo, both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.
Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
1960 · 6 votes
Movie5.3RomanceSt.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him.
Kulkurin valssi
1941 · 9 votes
Movie3.8DramaNina, Erik, and Heikki are charged in court and receive prison sentences, with the girl receiving a suspended sentence. Erik's father Tauno returns home and finds Nina waiting for him. The girl recounts the events that led to the situation, which are presented in flashback.
Nina ja Erik
1960 · 4 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
Movie4.8DramaHistoryIn 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.
Tanssi yli hautojen
1950 · 4 votes
- Movie6.0DramaRomance
Laikan Otto falls in love with a fair-haired beauty at the market, who later turns out to be Elina, daughter of the wealthy Orttenmaa family. The girl falls in love with Otto, but does not want to marry someone poorer than herself. The hurt man returns to his home village, where the sweet Anna Kervilä awaits him.
Kyläraittien kuningas
1945 · 2 votes
Movie5.4ComedyPete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.
Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä
1960 · 10 votes
Movie5.3ComedyRomanceLissie is a pickpocket who escapes from the police by pretending to be the wife of the absent-minded Leopold. Leopold falls in love with the young woman, but Lissie is more interested in the valuables she finds in the wealthy professor's apartment.
Rakas varkaani
1957 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyThrillerTimo plays a jealous husband who shoots his wife's lover on stage. The theater director urges the shy young man to gain experience with women and guns before the premiere. Both become familiar when Timo gets caught up in the schemes of his fellow actress Aili and a Russian spy ring.
Synnitön lankeemus
1943 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaFamilyIlona, an orphan from the cruel Paksula family, ends up in Helsinki at a children's home for immigrants and from there becomes a foster daughter in the Orpana family, where she begins to sort out the relationship between her war-disabled stepbrother Pentti and his girlfriend Irene.
Pikku Ilona ja hänen karitsansa
1957 · 3 votes
Movie9.0DramaWarThe spoiled girl Elli Arto joins the military service for women longing for a life of excitement. Out there she grows-up to a responsible adult.
Tyttö astuu elämään
1943 · 1 votes
Movie6.7DramaMaria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the previous fall, when Patron Oppman begins to approach Maria, offering her money in return for services.
Lain mukaan
1956 · 3 votes
Movie9.0DramaMusicAt the request of author Zacharias, Fredrik begins composing an opera, inspired by a summer walk in Backas, Espoo. He falls in love with Ebba, who sings like a nightingale about a young mermaid on the shore of the lake. Fredrik's infatuation causes a scandal in Helsinki society circles, as he is married.
Ballaadi
1944 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaPastor 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.
1918
1957 · 3 votes