Jaakko Pakkasvirta
Birthday: 1934-11-28
Place of Birth: Simpele, Finland
Biography: Jaakko Juhani Pakkasvirta (28 November 1934 – 23 March 2018) was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 30 films between 1958 and 2000. His 1975 film Home for Christmas was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1978 film Poet and Muse was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.
Movies
Iloinen Linnanmäki
Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, ...
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Mies tältä tähdeltä
Office clerk Eero Koskinen prefers to spend his nights drinking and reminiscing the war with his fri...
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X-Paroni
Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of hims...
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Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
Pekka Puupää and Pätkä involuntarily end up in Suez as peacekeepers. After saving the Caliph's daugh...
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Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin
A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join...
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Valkoinen kääpiö
The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemi...
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Onnenpeli
Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, ...
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Poet and Muse
Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th a...
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Kesäkapina
Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 trav...
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Hopeaa rajan takaa
In the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist and Anttala decide to seek family silver hidden unde...
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Town Is Our Future
With its sharp opinions, the film is a follow-up to the film Asuminen ja luonto (Living and Nature)....
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Meren juhlat
Sini is waiting for her husband to return from a trip and starts thinking about her past relationshi...
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Linna
Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the ...
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