Kari Väänänen Trailers
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Kari Kyösti Väänänen (born 17 September 1953 in Ivalo) is a Finnish actor and director. Domestically he is a member of the Ryhmäteatteri group of actors. He was introduced to international audiences by Aki Kaurismäki; and belongs to the list of his "trusted" stable of actors.
His most challenging role has been the eponymous mafia hitman of Rosso, for which he learned all his lines phonetically, without previously speaking a word of Italian. Kari Väänänen was featured in Star Wreck, a Finnish sci-fi parody where he played the Russian president. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth.
Most Popular Kari Väänänen Trailers
Total trailers found: 73
14 January 2000
Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi.
13 November 2013
Arne comes into the family of an old friend of his father as a foster child. He hopes to find closeness and security with Harald, his wife Elsa and their children Hans, Wiebke and Lars.
27 September 1985
A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.
27 January 1995
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.
07 December 2000
The mechanic Jack tries to get rid of his criminal background.
30 August 2002
Rauno Rämekorpi is celebrating his 60th birthday. He has been awarded the title of Industrial Counsellor, and the company's management has commissioned a biography of him.
25 February 1983
Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway.
19 December 2003
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, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love.
10 September 1999
A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in the post cold war Helsinki.
27 June 2015
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician.
29 September 1989
Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.
08 February 1985
A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira.
22 January 1999
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt.
20 March 2009
Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live.
26 July 1991
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup.
14 December 1990
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest.
12 December 1991
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
11 November 1983
A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures.
04 March 1986
A documentary about Helsinki's nightlife, soundtracked by rock band Sielun Veljet, theater troupe Ryhmäteatteri, and radio DJ Teppo Turkki.
28 March 1986
A film about the end of the world.
20 January 1989
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 American aunt of his.
30 November 2017
Fed up with the materialism of Christmas, Santa runs away to New Zealand for a summer holiday. When two Kiwi kids figure out who he is, they have to find a way to get him back to the North Pole in time for Christmas.
18 January 1985
Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next.
19 September 1986
A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth.
13 November 1987
A Finnish taxi driver in Berlin gets in over his head when he accepts a fare from two men with briefcases full of money stolen from ruthless gangsters.
29 September 2000
A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined.
05 February 1993
A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence.
09 May 1997
Marko Röhr's film crew takes the viewer to Europe's last unexplored area: Iceland's unique underwater world.
26 January 2011
Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.
02 February 2024
Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.
11 August 2006
11-year-old Onni is struck with the idea that his parents aren't his biological parents.
27 February 1992
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
26 January 1996
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work.
16 November 2007
Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together.
15 January 1999
The Tough Ones tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail.
27 September 2019
Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland.
25 September 1981
Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
30 November 1984
Young Alex Sammakko 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 their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family.
24 March 1989
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune.
19 December 1986
When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife.
20 August 1993
One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world
26 June 2004
An American, with a past as a successful musician, makes a living by playing at weddings and the likes in Germany.
09 September 2022
Grump's life follows the same familiar routines: spring is here and the early potato harvest is ripening.
06 December 1985
Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).
03 February 2018
Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.
23 August 2017
In the third instalment of the franchise, Janne embarks on an epic hike, a journey of self-discovery.
12 January 2007
The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking.
20 February 1987
Älä itke Iines is an absurd comedy about an eccentric community that lives on the roofs and attic of an apartment building, struggling to improve their living conditions.
04 June 1996
Eric, a successful Finnish conductor, has time to relax by the ocean after work in Rio de Janeiro. He finds it hard to forget an encounter with an extraordinary woman at the hotel.
16 October 2019
Live action comedy about a fictional town and it's uncommon people, based on a comic strip 'Fingerpori', by Pertti Jarla.
17 February 1994
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village.
21 August 2009
The story recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.
27 August 2004
After his wife leaves him, a man becomes obsessed getting his family back together by buying an old house.
11 October 1985
Giancarlo Rosso, a professional assassin from Sicily, is sent to Finland to kill a very specific target.
01 January 1998
Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland).
23 March 2012
The egocentric author Jalo Rautakumpu welcomes a visitor to his cabin in the Lappish wilderness. After sauna and a bottle of alcohol, the friendship is formed.
21 August 1987
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry.
27 March 2015
The Rosvola family – The Robbersons drive around the country in their pirate car robbing bypassing cars of their sweets, extra food and consumer goods.
07 April 1989
Based on Lauri Viita's fairy tale. In Kukunor, two trolls, Kukunor and Kalahari, read books and travel the world in their dreams.
31 January 1997
A criminal investigator arrives to investigate the murder of Annikki Niemi in a village whose residents remain silent about the killing.
