3 Movies Starring Vesa Vierikko

The Winter War

The Winter War

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-12-01

Languages:

Finnish

Countries:

Finland

Runtime:

195 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (6128 Reviews)

Director:

Pekka Parikka

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Pekka Parikka

Antti Tuuri (novel)

Antti Tuuri (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Finnish reservists leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on two farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, serving in a Finnish platoon.

The Match Factory Girl

The Match Factory Girl

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-11-06

Languages:

Finnish

Countries:

Finland, Sweden

Runtime:

68 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (5539 Reviews)

Director:

Aki Kaurismèki

Genres:

DramaComedy

Fullplot:

Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. But when she is made pregnant after a one-night stand by a man who thought she was a prostitute, she decides that enough is enough and plans her revenge...

The Flight Before Christmas

The Flight Before Christmas

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-10-10

Languages:

English, Finnish

Countries:

Finland, Denmark, Germany, Ireland

Runtime:

80 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (2260 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Hannu Tuomainen

Marteinn Thorisson

Mark Hodkinson (additional dialogue)

Fullplot:

A reindeer boy named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant mocking from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel.

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