Toivo Mäkelä
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1909-09-26
Locus Natus: Loviisa, Finland
Et ut: Toivo Makela, Toivo Armas Sulo Mäkelä
Vaarallista vapautta
Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the...
release : 1962.11.16popularis : 0.455
The Scarlet Dove
Dr. Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from...
release : 1961.03.10popularis : 0.632
Viettelysten tie
Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the...
release : 1955.11.18popularis : 0.622
Villi Pohjola
A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.
release : 1955.09.30popularis : 0.967
Kovanaama
Lasse 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...
release : 1954.01.29popularis : 0.407
Olemme kaikki syyllisiä
A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He...
release : 1954.11.05popularis : 0.521
Justus järjestää kaiken
Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella.
release : 1960.04.15popularis : 0.813
Preludes to Ecstasy
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and...
release : 1961.12.01popularis : 3.132
Autotytöt
Underaged girls hitch-hike across Finland.
release : 1960.10.07popularis : 0.868
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...
release : 1979.05.14popularis : 0.545
Verta käsissämme
After 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...
release : 1958.11.21popularis : 0.967
Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends...
release : 1960.05.13popularis : 0.812
Villin Pohjolan kulta
A western set in the "Wild North".
release : 1963.02.01popularis : 0.489
Pitkäjärveläiset
1765. Regina Tuomaantytär is engaged to Juha. However, she is also courted by Martti Heikkilä, soldier Matti Modig and Kalle Brockman....
release : 1951.11.02popularis : 0.371
Olin nahjuksen vaimo
While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone...
release : 1961.04.28popularis : 0.762
Scarlet Week
After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking...
release : 1954.02.28popularis : 1.932
Oppenheimerin tapaus
A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer.
release : 1967.10.11popularis : 2.082
Syntipukki
"Mussu" Koikkalainen, a country boy moves to town to find a job. He finds it and is even promoted to head of complaints department. But little he...
release : 1957.08.30popularis : 1.844
The Witch
An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears...
release : 1952.10.03popularis : 1.411
Lasisydän
A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.
release : 1959.10.16popularis : 0.642
Pähkähullu Suomi
A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the...
release : 1967.08.25popularis : 0.647
Punainen viiva
The story of the first elections in Finland
release : 1959.09.04popularis : 0.417
Minkkiturkki
A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
release : 1961.02.03popularis : 0.521
Opettajatar seikkailee
An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her...
release : 1960.10.28popularis : 1.553
Gas, Inspector Palmu!
A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector...
release : 1961.09.15popularis : 2.708
Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä
Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.
release : 1960.03.11popularis : 3.156
The Harvest Month
The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a...
release : 1956.10.05popularis : 0.514
Aika hyvä ihmiseksi
The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.
release : 1977.10.07popularis : 0.715
Hän varasti elämän
A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent...
release : 1962.08.03popularis : 0.418
Inspector Palmu's Error
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
release : 1960.09.09popularis : 1.721
Kuriton sukupolvi
Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his...
release : 1957.03.29popularis : 0.524
Kultainen vasikka
Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.
release : 1961.11.24popularis : 0.589
Asessorin naishuolet
After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.
release : 1958.02.07popularis : 0.405
Pää pystyyn Helena
Grandmother 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...
release : 1957.02.08popularis : 0.107
Hiekkakuningas
A Finnish TV movie by Jukka Sipilä.
release : 1972.01.01popularis : 0.194