Esko Nikkari
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1938-11-23
Locus Natus: Lapua, Finland
Et ut: Esko Vilhelm Nikkari
Shadows in Paradise
Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets...
release : 1986.10.17popularis : 12.137
The Match Factory Girl
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself...
release : 1990.01.12popularis : 12.191
The Clan: Tale of the Frogs
Young Alex Sammako has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to...
release : 1984.11.30popularis : 2.767
Hamlet Goes Business
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a...
release : 1987.08.21popularis : 5.663
The Rose of the Rascal
The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.
release : 2001.01.12popularis : 1.66
Nonstop
A revolver changes hands seven times, each time serving a different purpose shot in a film style which tests the traditional story-telling form of...
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 1.17
The Worthless
Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from...
release : 1982.10.15popularis : 4.866
The Minister of State
A man uses a case of mistaken identity to gain the confidence of a small village, and in the process exposes universal human traits: honour, greed,...
release : 1997.01.25popularis : 1.221
Goodbye, Trainmen
Small-town boys Vähy and Hapa are best friends who swear an eternal blood oath. As they grow up, however, their paths drift apart and they both...
release : 1992.09.04popularis : 1.575
Crime and Punishment
In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who...
release : 1983.12.02popularis : 6.589
Plainlands
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical...
release : 1988.02.26popularis : 5.618
Macbeth
A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of...
release : 1987.01.16popularis : 1.726
Koomikko
Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying...
release : 1983.03.11popularis : 1.606
A Summer by the River
Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed...
release : 1998.02.13popularis : 1.877
Kauhea murhamies Lalli
TV play about the legend of Lalli.
release : 1981.05.08popularis : 1.991
Farewell, Mr. President
Asko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland, so he thinks that the best way to...
release : 1987.01.16popularis : 1.548
Lakeuden kutsu
Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen...
release : 2000.01.14popularis : 1.325
Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their lives have changed considerably. Anna is a war widow;...
release : 1988.12.16popularis : 0.744
Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät
The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons...
release : 1992.10.09popularis : 1.261
Land of Love
A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name,...
release : 2003.12.19popularis : 3.387
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...
release : 1989.10.05popularis : 0.938
Tilinteko
Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he...
release : 1987.02.13popularis : 1.324
Aapo
Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.
release : 1994.07.29popularis : 2.429
The Winter War
Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the...
release : 1989.11.30popularis : 9.069
Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha
Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to...
release : 2000.03.03popularis : 2.284
Cha Cha Cha
A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an...
release : 1989.01.20popularis : 1.924
The Last Wedding
Pekka arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reached a dead end....
release : 1995.02.17popularis : 2.198
The Man Without a Past
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost...
release : 2002.03.01popularis : 5.948
Kaikki pelissä
A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is...
release : 1994.04.15popularis : 1.389
Drifting Clouds
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they...
release : 1996.01.26popularis : 8.245
Shadow of the Eagle
The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive...
release : 2005.09.09popularis : 6.172
Pekko ja unissakävelijä
Pipsa has fallen prey to a shady scientist Kalevi. Pekko tries to save her.
release : 1997.09.26popularis : 1.33
Pekko aikamiespojan poikamiesaika
Pekko has a crush on Pipsa, a beautiful archeologist.
release : 1993.09.17popularis : 0.571
Pekko ja massahurmaaja
Pekko is jealous when Pipsa is under the spell of the handsome Markku. The children Kalle and Katariina enjoy each other's company. Beauty salon...
release : 1995.09.01popularis : 0.758
Pekko ja muukalainen
A Black man arriving in Tyräaho causes consternation among the villagers. Meeri Aavasuo wants an adopted child and to promote the cause, she...
release : 1996.09.06popularis : 1.844
Pekko ja poika
A child who is the subject of a custody dispute flees from the social welfare authority from Tyräaho to Helsinki with Pekko. In the capital, the...
release : 1994.10.28popularis : 2.036
Ariel
After the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for the city to make a living but there, he is framed and...
release : 1988.10.21popularis : 18.973
Marked
Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and...
release : 1984.09.15popularis : 1.159
Juha
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
release : 1999.02.26popularis : 4.073
Syöksykierre
Drama set in Stockholm and Helsinki and a village whose existence is threatened by a power plant. A group of young people return to their roots and...
release : 1981.10.30popularis : 0.921
The Wrestler
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
release : 1985.09.26popularis : 2.032
Niskavuori
Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with...
release : 1984.12.21popularis : 1.684
Pieni pyhiinvaellus
In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon...
release : 2000.03.17popularis : 1.448