
Ritva Hannele Lauri (born July 21, 1952 in Tampere, Finland) is a Finnish actress known for her roles in multiple comedy series. The artistic focus of her career is in stage acting. She was born Hannele Markkula to parents Arvi Markkula, a colonel and Eine Markkula, a shopkeeper. She married the actor Hannu Lauri in 1976 and had two sons, Sami (1977) and Tomi (1979). The couple divorced in 1994. S...
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Five friends celebrate the growing media visibility of social media witch Lulu, by mocking age-old divination tools, but the fun leads to one of them disappearing. After experiencing inexplicable events, the rest of the group decides to search for the missing person by following the location information shared in a group chat. The journey takes them to the border between reality and unreality, where the natural becomes disturbed and everyday existence becomes threatening. To find the missing person, they must dare to strip themselves of all superficiality and embark on a journey as flawed and imperfect beings. Will that be enough to survive?

Two elderly roommates at a hospice are randomly selected for a Gene-Therapy Trial that rejuvenates their bodies, making them younger. Given a second chance at love, lust and life, with the memories of their past life intact, they now must find their place in a new world that has left them behind.

Traumatized Niina needs a change of scenery and a moment of escape from the world. Together with her friend Suvi, they rent a villa in the countryside. Soon the women find they are not welcome, and it doesn't help that they find themselves in the middle of fateful twists and turns and unwittingly become involved in a mysterious ancient cult. One night, a ragtag group of ancient pagan worshiping locals invade the villa to demand reparations for the women's actions and to perform their rituals. Having survived the atrocities, Niina begins to gather her strength with only one goal in mind - revenge!

The Finland of the future has gone mad. A bored young woman, Viola, gets a brilliant idea. She decides to fool the infamous Lone Rider and his sidekick Tonto. Viola makes a wanted poster of herself, and assumes the identity of a highwayman named Gonzales. Viola/Gonzales surrenders to a quirky bandit duo, who now believe they will be well rewarded for bringing this outlaw to authorities. As the pair is taking Gonzales to the gallows, they get lost in the desert. A day's journey turns into an adventure that tests the trio's physical resilience and mental maturity.

Seija Kuula is a superstar singer and an ageless goddess with a career spanning decades and decades. Problems start to arise when Seija falls in love with a younger guy and everybody around her seem to suffer from a bad case of baby fever. Seija orchestrates a masterplan to make everyone happy only to realize that one can not play with love. 70 Is Just a Number is a warm and humorous coming-of-age story – at 70.

Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is fine when Rouskun's mate deals with things. The entrepreneurs know that the poor can be, but not artificial. But what's the point for the scratchy women? Especially when Rousku gets to look in the mirror again and find out what kind of father, such a daughter.

Antti Pasanen is working as a journalist. His life is on the right tracks; his wife Pia is just about to give birth. Until - in the front of the Maternity Hospital everything changes. Antti, with the sniffling baby in his arms, sees the taxi´s taillights fading out. Pia is sitting on the backseat; their future as a nuclear family is disappearing. The new life with the baby´s terms begins and Antti has no idea what that’s all about.

The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.

Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.

"Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a significant career also as a singer, performer, writer and as a sportsman. He has recorded several albums, from folk songs and couplets to tangos. Some of his recordings are based on the lyrics of Hermann Hesse or Eino Leino, the infamous Finnish poet. During his unique career he has played in more than 60 films and recorded 30 albums.
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