Pirkka-Pekka Petelius Trailers
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Pirkka-Pekka Petelius (born 31 May 1953) is a Finnish actor, director, producer, screenwriter and politician. He has also released six records as a singer. He is a member of the Green League and was elected to the Finnish parliament in the 2019 election with 6,331 personal votes, but is not a member of the parliament any more.
Petelius's breakthrough was in Yleisradio's sketch series Velipuolikuu (1983), which he wrote and also acted in. The popularity gained by the series started Petelius's career as one of the most well-known comedians in Finland. He gained immense popularity due to his work in the sketch series Pulttibois (and its sequel, Manitbois) with Aake Kalliala.
Despite being known as a comedian Petelius has also acted in several more serious roles in films and television, especially in the recent years. He played Hietanen in Rauni Mollberg's The Unknown Soldier (1985). Other significant films have been e.g. Aki Kaurismäki's Hamlet Goes Business (1986), Åke Lindman's Lapin kullan kimallus (1999) and Peter Lindholm's Drakarna över Helsingfors (2001).
He also provided the Finnish voice of Timon in Leijonakuningas (The Lion King) (1994).
Most Popular Pirkka-Pekka Petelius Trailers
Total trailers found: 44
22 February 2013
8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew.
25 February 1983
Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway.
17 December 1982
The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife.
02 November 2016
The career of Tuomas’ in the music industry is in a downhill spiral – but his plans of getting married with Leila are in full swing.
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.
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.
13 October 1997
A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.
27 October 2017
The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944.
04 September 2015
Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything behind, and a suitable opportunity arises when she falls in love with a German-Finnish officer Johannes, who is leaving to German-led Titovka prison camp in the Soviet Union.
12 September 1986
Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K.
29 January 2016
The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.
04 March 1986
A documentary about Helsinki's nightlife, soundtracked by rock band Sielun Veljet, theater troupe Ryhmäteatteri, and radio DJ Teppo Turkki.
24 January 1986
The story of an unspecified country ravaged by civil war, with its rebels and spies.
05 February 2016
Viktor Kärppä was forced involuntarily in the middle of Russia's internal power struggle. Soon bunch of assassins as well as Security Police are trying to catch Kärppä.
10 September 2010
Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.
06 January 2017
A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.
28 January 1994
Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with the male partner, who is mainly interested in the money.
26 August 1994
Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.
25 February 2015
Luokkakokous is a story about three men that travel back to their hometown to attend their high school class reunion.
25 September 2006
A TV movie by Mikko Mattila.
26 December 2014
Baby Girl, 30, a poet with a bachelor's degree in arts, is anguished because of her relationship with Pirkka, a relatively smart, young man.
07 December 2007
The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force.
25 December 1981
Masochists are in for a treat when Spede Productions' most vulgar folk farce hits the screen. Created by no fewer than three first-time directors, the film tells the story of the village of Pölhölä, "where people are even more foolish than in Hölmölä.
04 October 2013
An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life.
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.
28 January 2011
The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.
28 September 1976
Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that.
28 November 1986
Hese, the shy owner of a video company, travels on a moped to film a commissioned Christmas party. From the steps of his office, Hese finds an anonymous Christmas present, a Hese slipover, and begins to find out who it is from.
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.
16 January 2004
30-something Jonna, successful executive with cozy architect husband Niklas and two children, leads a double life.
06 November 1992
Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people.
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.
07 September 2001
Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s.
27 December 2013
Ella’s friend Pate has hard time learning multiplication tables. With a little help from his friends, he decides to be a rockstar so he wouldn’t need to study anymore but his manager could study for him.
08 May 1981
TV play about the legend of Lalli.
12 March 1999
Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died.
23 August 1991
Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
23 February 2001
A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.
17 February 2012
19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs.
10 September 1999
In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north.
23 November 1990
The musical characters Rampe and Naukkis became popular from the TV series Hymyhuulet and Pulttibois, where they told jokes to each other in the cleaning closet during breaks.
04 November 1988
The hosts of the television program Oma maa mansikka promise 10 million to anyone who manages to turn the remote village of Taka-Surkee into a popular tourist destination.
24 August 1990
This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.
