Elina Knihtilä
Birthday: 1971-06-06
Place of Birth: Valkeala, Finland
Biography: Mari Elina Knihtilä (born June 6, 1971) is a Finnish actress. Knihtilä has worked for several Finnish theatres, such as the Finnish National Theatre and Q-teatteri, while also having appeared in films and on television. She has received two Jussi Awards; one for a supporting role in the 2008 Heikki Kujanpää film Putoavia enkeleitä and another for a leading role in the 2011 Zaida Bergroth film Hyvä poika. Some of her television work include the comic roles in Läpiveto, Vedetään hatusta and the first season of Putous. Knihtilä is cohabiting with actor Tommi Korpela. Together they have a son.
Movies
Doctor Johansson
A nurse, tired of her job, does not notice that a doctor leaves for his break. This gives a patient ...
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Eden
Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the arc...
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Family Time
It’s Christmas time and the family has gathered. Everything goes on as it did the previous Christmas...
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Death Is a Problem for the Living
The cheapest drivers in the hearse business, gambling addict Risto Kivi and his friend Arto Niska, a...
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Last Cowboy Standing
In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past ...
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Flying Finns
A short film about the close-minded but hopeful couple called Koistinen, who should just stay home i...
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The Democracy of the Spineless
A political satire about a decision yet to be made and heard – and in all the hassle, the Prime Mini...
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Role
Lauri Tilkanen is a talented, promising young actor who finds himself among the final candidates vyi...
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Tervashampoota
A story about two women who find a suspicious shampoo bottle in the public showers. After learning t...
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The House of Branching Love
A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Lov...
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Snot and Splash: The Mystery of Disappearing Holes
Snot and Splash travel to their grandmother's house in the small town of Mouthwash for a winter holi...
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Almost 18
Karri, Pete, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can. They'r...
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Producing Adults
Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to ...
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Road North
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through...
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Raptures
Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms...
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A Mate
Pera wants to try something kinky in the bathroom, so he asks his mate to help him. However, Pera’s ...
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Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble
Set right before Christmas, young reindeer Niko must deal with his mother's remarriage and his being...
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Matti: Hell Is for Heroes
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and fo...
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Raspberry Boat Refugee
Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything F...
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V2: Dead Angel
The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the...
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Tuulikki
Tuulikki has a problem. She is in the throes of young love, and the world outside her window is vibr...
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The Midwife
Helena has worked as a kind of midwife on the eve of the Lapland War. She wants to leave everything...
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Stormskerry Maja
Maja and Janne move to the barren and remote island of Stormskerry, where survival is a daily strugg...
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The Swedish Moment
Pop singer Kari and his girl dump a tightly wrapped mattress on a frozen lake. Things don’t quite go...
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Jäät
The story of Leena and Kai, a couple working in the rescue services, whose relationship falls into c...
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100 Liters of Gold
Middle-aged sisters Taina and Pirkko are famous for their Finnish farmhouse ale called “sahti”. The...
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Jill, Joy and the Mysterious Stranger
A new orphanage opens near Jill and Joy's house, and a boy named Pekki runs away from there. Pekki e...
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Distractions
Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grav...
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The Log
The female director wants full frontal nudity from her male lead, but the actor has a big problem wi...
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Maria's Paradise
A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. Du...
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Cleaning Woman
Cleaning woman is cleaning and finds herself in an unexpected situation....
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Falling Angels
The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems ...
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The Night Thief
The Night Thief is a warmhearted drama set in the suburbs of Helsinki, Finland. It tells the story o...
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Rumble
A summery, boozy road movie in which Leo aimlessly drives a group of aging teddy bears through the F...
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The Lake
Two sisters, Mailis and Henna, are rowing on a lake at the heart of a summer midnight....
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Jill, Joy and the Sleeping Clock
Jill and Joy receive a mission from their neighbors Tingelstein and Tangelstein: the ladies send the...
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Play Rape
A young actress, passionate about her profession, gets ready for a rape scene....
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The Flight Before Christmas
A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite cons...
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Happier Times, Grump
The Grump prepares to die – everything is done and his wife is dead. He’s making his own coffin when...
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Stripping
About photographer Inka and her loved ones on a journey to the fountains of love. Inka leaves her be...
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Force of Habit
Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vac...
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Jill and Joy
When two best friends Jill and Joy find a huge sum of money on the street on the first day of the su...
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The Other Side of Hope
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland....
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8 Days to Premiere
A love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season's grand premiere. Noo...
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The Good Son
When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality....
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Jill and Joy's Winter
Jill and Joy (both 9) live in their own house like any other little girls, except that they might be...
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Waste Land
Waste Land is a tragicomic ensemble film about a bunch of kids squatting an abandoned seaside hotel....
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Above Dark Waters
A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fe...
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The Bouncer
A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He ...
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Lovemilla
Aimo and Milla live together at her alcoholics-turned-zombies parents' place, while saving money to ...
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Jäänmurtaja
14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes D...
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Christmas Comes to Moominvalley
On a frosty winter's morning, Hemulen wakes the sleeping Moomins to prepare them for the approaching...
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How to Shout
Anu sees Heloisa regularly in her practice, who, whenever falls in love, begins to suffer from cruel...
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The Matriarch
Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs ...
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I
What if our greatest fear is not death but worthless life? Fifty years old Kati occupies a top posit...
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Rotten
On a warm summer day in rural Finland, a young boy meets his friend to collect on a dreary promise....
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Risto
The beloved actor Risto gets paralyzed - quadriplegiac - in a studio accident. The accident brings h...
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