Eero Melasniemi

Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life (2004)

Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ere Kokkonen
CAST:  Vesa-Matti Loiri  •  Marjatta Raita  •  Tapio Hämäläinen  •  Marita Nordberg

Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ere Kokkonen
CAST:  Vesa-Matti Loiri  •  Marjatta Raita  •  Tapio Hämäläinen  •  Marita Nordberg

Skin, Skin (1966)

Mikko Niskanen's famous new wave film about the '60s urban intellectuals who get faced in the Finnish countryside with loads of beer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikko Niskanen
CAST:  Kristiina Halkola  •  Kirsti Wallasvaara  •  Pekka Autiovuori  •  Eero Melasniemi

Mikko Niskanen's famous new wave film about the '60s urban intellectuals who get faced in the Finnish countryside with loads of beer.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikko Niskanen
CAST:  Kristiina Halkola  •  Kirsti Wallasvaara  •  Pekka Autiovuori  •  Eero Melasniemi

Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha (2000)

Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ere Kokkonen
CAST:  Heikki Kinnunen  •  Tom Pöysti  •  Sari Siikander  •  Santeri Kinnunen

Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ere Kokkonen
CAST:  Heikki Kinnunen  •  Tom Pöysti  •  Sari Siikander  •  Santeri Kinnunen

The Winter War (1989)

Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pekka Parikka
CAST:  Taneli Mäkelä  •  Vesa Vierikko  •  Timo Torikka  •  Heikki Paavilainen

Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pekka Parikka
CAST:  Taneli Mäkelä  •  Vesa Vierikko  •  Timo Torikka  •  Heikki Paavilainen

Marked (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. Irma attempts to commit ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ismo Sajakorpi
CAST:  Eero Melasniemi  •  Satu Silvo  •  Georg Dolivo  •  Hillevi Lagerstam

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. Irma attempts to commit ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ismo Sajakorpi
CAST:  Eero Melasniemi  •  Satu Silvo  •  Georg Dolivo  •  Hillevi Lagerstam

Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava (1997)

New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ere Kokkonen
CAST:  Heikki Kinnunen  •  Vesa Vierikko  •  Tom Pöysti  •  Kalevi Kahra

New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ere Kokkonen
CAST:  Heikki Kinnunen  •  Vesa Vierikko  •  Tom Pöysti  •  Kalevi Kahra

Kuuma kissa? (1968)

This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The small-town school marm tries to help a male student who has been suspended ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Erkko Kivikoski
CAST:  Maarita Mäkelä  •  Eero Melasniemi  •  Kurt Ingvall  •  Urpo Poikolainen

This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The small-town school marm tries to help a male student who has been suspended ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Erkko Kivikoski
CAST:  Maarita Mäkelä  •  Eero Melasniemi  •  Kurt Ingvall  •  Urpo Poikolainen

Asfalttilampaat (1968)

A story of a doomed young love in a small narrow-minded town.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikko Niskanen
CAST:  Eero Melasniemi  •  Kirsti Wallasvaara  •  Paavo Tuominen  •  Mirjami Manninen

A story of a doomed young love in a small narrow-minded town.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikko Niskanen
CAST:  Eero Melasniemi  •  Kirsti Wallasvaara  •  Paavo Tuominen  •  Mirjami Manninen

The Brothers (1969)

Two brothers, two different lifestyles collide. Eero is a young married man who opens up a print shop and struggles to get it going. Eki is a student with Marxist ideas, although he dates the daughter of a wealthy shipowner.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Erkko Kivikoski
CAST:  Eero Melasniemi  •  Riitta-Liisa Helminen  •  Pertti Melasniemi  •  Matt Varjo

Two brothers, two different lifestyles collide. Eero is a young married man who opens up a print shop and struggles to get it going. Eki is a student with Marxist ideas, although he dates the daughter of a wealthy shipowner.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Erkko Kivikoski
CAST:  Eero Melasniemi  •  Riitta-Liisa Helminen  •  Pertti Melasniemi  •  Matt Varjo

Kesäkapina (1970)

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaakko Pakkasvirta
CAST:  Titta Karakorpi  •  Hannu Oravisto  •  Veikko Honkanen  •  Petra Frey

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jaakko Pakkasvirta
CAST:  Titta Karakorpi  •  Hannu Oravisto  •  Veikko Honkanen  •  Petra Frey

Rautatie (1973)

Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kari Franck
CAST:  Leo Jokela  •  Anja Pohjola  •  Markku Riikonen  •  Sakari Halonen

Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kari Franck
CAST:  Leo Jokela  •  Anja Pohjola  •  Markku Riikonen  •  Sakari Halonen

Any Day Now (2020)

Bahman, Mahtab, Ramin and Donya Mehdipour are enjoying a perfect summer in a small Finnish town. Their routines are fractured by a negative decision on their application for asylum by the Finnish Immigration Service. But life must go on and the 13-year-old Ramin is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hamy Ramezan
CAST:  Shahab Hosseini  •  Shabnam Gorbani  •  Aran-Sina Keshvari  •  Kimya Eskandari

Bahman, Mahtab, Ramin and Donya Mehdipour are enjoying a perfect summer in a small Finnish town. Their routines are fractured by a negative decision on their application for asylum by the Finnish Immigration Service. But life must go on and the 13-year-old Ramin is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hamy Ramezan
CAST:  Shahab Hosseini  •  Shabnam Gorbani  •  Aran-Sina Keshvari  •  Kimya Eskandari