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Matti Pellonpää (March 28, 1951 in Helsinki – July 13, 1995 in Vaasa) was an award-winning Finnish actor and a musician. He rose to international fame with his roles in both Aki Kaurismäki's and Mika Kaurismäki's films; particularly being a regular in Aki's films, appearing in 18 of them.
He started his career in 1962 as a radio actor at the Finnish state-owned broadcasting company YLE. He performed as an actor during the 70s in many amateur theatres, at the same time that he studied at the Finnish Theatre Academy, where he completed his studies in the year 1977.
He was nominated Best Actor by European Film Academy for his role as Rodolfo in La Vie de Boheme and won the Felix at the European Film Awards in 1992. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth.
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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.
02 November 1962
When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys.
01 January 1992
Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme"
14 June 1986
Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on a juiced-up Russian fighter played by Dolph Lundgren.
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.
12 December 1991
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
31 August 1979
It follows a year in the life of a family in the North-Eastern part of Finland. From the gloomy days of winter to the Mid Summer wedding festivities.
02 December 1983
Former student Rahikainen is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Rahikainen struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
16 January 1987
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 Scotland.
04 November 1977
Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master.
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.
15 September 1984
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 is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past.
15 October 1982
Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives.
16 November 1984
The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child.
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.
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.
08 March 1991
A sequel to Soinio's film Kuutamosonaatti (Moonlight Sonata) of 1988. A rural family clings to life until the resourceful Sulo uses the salvific powers of sauna, moonshine, and tar to resurrect his injured brother Arvo, their deceased mother, and even buried revolutionaries.
17 October 1986
Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies.
19 September 1986
A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth.
21 October 1988
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
26 January 2011
Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.
04 December 1970
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
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.
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.
07 May 1994
The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator.
25 September 1981
Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
06 March 2025
Kari Uusitalo, a regular visitor to the Tampere Film Festival, delved into the state of Finnish cinema of the mid-1980s, while getting to know the new generation of filmmakers in Anssi Mänttäri's comedic short documentary.
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.
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.
24 March 1989
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune.
20 August 1993
One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world
02 March 1984
Lauri Valjakka, a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, is thoroughly fed up with his family, whom he refers to as a "consumption unit," and his irritating, rigid wife.
06 March 2013
Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988.
16 March 1984
A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
14 January 1994
Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor.
13 October 1989
A group of kids goes on an adventure to help their scientist friend.
17 February 1994
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village.
03 February 1985
Just when Julia is going to finish her horse drawing, her mother goes to the shop and leaves Julia to watch over her little brother Jonni.
05 March 1982
Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins.
06 May 1994
A 57-minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a number of US Rock songs sung in English (like "Sweet Home, Alabama") as well as more traditional Russian songs like the "Volga Boatman.
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.
21 October 1983
April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the Korvenheimo trilogy.
18 February 1983
According to Mänttäri, the film is about a woman as portrayed through four female characters.
08 May 1981
TV play about the legend of Lalli.
27 February 1981
Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.
17 October 1975
Liisa, a young nurse returns to a remote island where she has spent the summer leaves in her youth. She soon gets to know some of the regular residents on the island, Pekka and Paula.
24 September 1993
Musical tale of a happy man, whose happiness the Fur King tried to buy.
10 November 1993
Sutki travels around Finland selling his wife's knitted mittens at market stalls. Business is slow, and Sutki's boisterous lifestyle doesn't help matters.
02 February 1990
Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal activities.
05 November 1976
In 17th-century Pohjola, young Antti Puuhaara is looking for himself, because he has grown up with no knowledge of his childhood.
20 April 1969
Dances are ending. Last chance for women and men to find someone.
17 October 1986
Matti turns 16 and becomes a man, at least in his father's eyes. Matti wanders around Helsinki, and strange people cling to him like flies to sticky flypaper.
21 December 1990
That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance.
13 September 1984
Matti Pellonpää (1951-1995) was one of the most talented Finnish actors of his generation. In Eero Tuomikoski's documentary, we meet Pellonpää in 1984, after Kaurismäki's Arvottomat film, but before his actual big breakthrough.
