Kari Väänänen
Birthday: 1953-09-17
Place of Birth: Ivalo, Finland
Biography: 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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movies
Backwood Philosopher
Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wild...
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Night on Earth
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night....
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Underwater Iceland
Marko Röhr's film crew takes the viewer to Europe's last unexplored area: Iceland's unique underwate...
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Apinan vuosi
A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures....
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking f...
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Drifting Clouds
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri,...
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Hamlet Goes Business
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as h...
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The Missile
Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the f...
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La Vie de Bohème
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no vis...
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The Unknown Soldier
Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's ...
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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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The Breakthrough
Theater students rehearse their own play, "Freedom," and become entangled in the depths of the play'...
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Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning begins with Captain James B. Pirk of the starship Kickstart shipwrecke...
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The Clan: Tale of the Frogs
Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in ...
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Lapland Odyssey 3
In the third instalment of the franchise, Janne embarks on an epic hike, a journey of self-discovery...
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Siriuksen vieraat
Anders flees his drug debts to his former home village. Once there, he must come to terms with his p...
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Ambush
It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A pla...
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Land of Love
A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out...
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Honey Baby
An American, with a past as a successful musician, makes a living by playing at weddings and the lik...
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Näkemiin, hyvästi
When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back fo...
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Trench Road
After his wife leaves him, a man becomes obsessed getting his family back together by buying an old ...
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Amazon
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bus...
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Dirty Hands
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about ...
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Rock'n Roll Never Dies
The story of a simple and good-natured rocker in his late thirties who has a homemade electric guita...
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Dolly and Her Lover
Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood f...
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Lakeuden kutsu
Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in...
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Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with ...
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Jon
Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in No...
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Ripa Hits the Skids
A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is als...
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Kuoleman hellä kosketus
A young man finds himself in conflict with military order and purpose....
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Sambolico
Eric, a successful Finnish conductor, has time to relax by the ocean after work in Rio de Janeiro. H...
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Train Birds
Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the Intern...
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Cha Cha Cha
A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inf...
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Spy Games
A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) ...
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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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We Are the Pirates of the Roads
The Rosvola family – The Robbersons drive around the country in their pirate car robbing bypassing c...
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Kiwi Christmas
Fed up with the materialism of Christmas, Santa runs away to New Zealand for a summer holiday. When ...
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Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan
A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over...
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Viimeiset rotannahat
Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black c...
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Rosso
Giancarlo Rosso, a professional assassin from Sicily, is sent to Finland to kill a very specific tar...
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Paper Star
Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, wh...
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Fingerpori
Live action comedy about a fictional town and it's uncommon people, based on a comic strip 'Fingerpo...
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Iron Horsemen
Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of t...
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Master Cheng
Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world ...
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Bad Luck Love
A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more comp...
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Calamari Union
A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-...
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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return ...
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Älä itke Iines
Älä itke Iines is an absurd comedy about an eccentric community that lives on the roofs and attic of...
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Christmas Story
Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The vi...
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Kymmenen riivinrautaa
Rauno Rämekorpi is celebrating his 60th birthday. He has been awarded the title of Industrial Counse...
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Goodbye Gibraltar
Goodbye Gibraltar, directed by Ulrika Bengst, is a film about reconciliation, encountering different...
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Mestari
Eero Tyrni, a reporter for Iltapäivä newspaper, is in Austria doing a story on ski jumper Teemu Kimp...
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Kukunor
Based on Lauri Viita's fairy tale. In Kukunor, two trolls, Kukunor and Kalahari, read books and trav...
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Onni von Sopanen
11-year-old Onni is struck with the idea that his parents aren't his biological parents....
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The Rise and Fall of a Friendship
The egocentric author Jalo Rautakumpu welcomes a visitor to his cabin in the Lappish wilderness. Aft...
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The Tough Ones
The Tough Ones tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society....
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One Foot Under
Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from ...
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Zombie and the Ghost Train
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' ...
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Let My People Go !
Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappoin...
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The Grump: In Search of an Escort
Grump's life follows the same familiar routines: spring is here and the early potato harvest is ripe...
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Arne's Legacy
Arne comes into the family of an old friend of his father as a foster child. He hopes to find closen...
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Laulu
A documentary about Helsinki's nightlife, soundtracked by rock band Sielun Veljet, theater troupe Ry...
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Kajaani
After several years in France, Juho and Anna go back to see their sick father. Juho fears this trave...
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