Elina Salo
Birthday: 1936-03-09
Place of Birth: Sipoo, Finland
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elina Salo (born March 9, 1936 in Sipoo, Finland; died November 4, 2025) was a Finnish film, theatre and television actress who has also done work in radio as a voice actor in children’s programming. In her career that began in 1956, Salo appeared in over 50 films and television shows but she is best known for her work in Aki Kaurismäki’s films. She has been awarded three Jussi Awards for her work. In 2010, she was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Commandeur). Description above from the Wikipedia article Elina Salo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Tyttö tuli taloon
Hitchhiking girls Eila and Tilly end up at screenwriter Saku's summer house by mistake, thinking it'...
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Scandal in the Girls' School
The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the sch...
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The Match Factory Girl
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of findin...
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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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Nonstop
A revolver changes hands seven times, each time serving a different purpose shot in a film style whi...
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Le Havre
In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Ma...
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I Have a Tiger
A little boy has a tiger as a pet, but it's a secret. The widemouth of the apartment building is Mis...
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The Rooster and Hen Have a Sauna
A comical animated opera. A chicken leaves to get birch branches for sauna while the rooster stays t...
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Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen
Olli Suominen has been appointed acting sheriff in the countryside, and the whole family has left fo...
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Tähtisumua
Pirkko Mannola and Esko Salminen play young pop stars of the same name, who develop a secret romance...
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Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a rea...
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Kulkurin masurkka
A story about vagabond named Paul and his journeys in the countryside. He is a real charmer and many...
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The Snow Queen
A Finnish live action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The tale c...
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A Stranger Came by Train
An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusade...
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Yö vai päivä
A French cultural research group arrives in Finland. From Helsinki, the group travels to Saimaa to p...
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The Little Angel
It's holiday season and Christmas decorations come alive again. As her first Christmas Eve approache...
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A Worker's Diary
Juhani, a welder and Ritva, a right-wing backgrounded, future clerk get married. Soon we see that th...
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Tie pimeään
Klaus Grahn is a young student frustrated with his life. In an attempt to break free from his unfulf...
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Älä nuolase…
Poor service station workers Jaakko and Timo think they have won the lottery jackpot. The men are al...
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Petos
The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster qu...
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Inspector Palmu's Error
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous polic...
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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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Minkkiturkki
A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates....
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The Farewell
Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repre...
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Gas, Inspector Palmu!
A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initia...
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Iloinen Linnanmäki
Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, ...
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Harry Munter
Harry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He's an inve...
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Linna
Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the ...
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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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The Man Without a Past
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously rec...
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Villin Pohjolan salattu laakso
The Vorna brothers search for a hidden valley and its treasures....
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Justus järjestää kaiken
Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Be...
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Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth
Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois...
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Kreivi
Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is...
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Vaaksa vaaraa
A technician working in the telephony company receives a mysterious packet....
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Kultainen vasikka
Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni....
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Herra sotaministeri
Kalle, a shy and absent-minded civil servant at the comparison agency, unwittingly becomes Minister ...
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Rintamalotta
Irma has been sent to the front immediately after her marriage to Erik Vuori. Irma and her new "Lott...
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Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor....
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Juha
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who en...
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Patarouva
Kaius Kannisto a bachelor who has experienced hard on the love front, goes through his relationships...
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Eight Mirrors
Mean girls bully Anna-Maija after she is seen kissing a boy. Her parents notice that the girl's affa...
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Gamen
Aa self-indulgent TV theater dramatization of Sigmund Freud's thesis on Leonardo da Vinci....
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Tove and the Sea
Artist and author Tove Jansson talks about her thoughts and life at home on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsi...
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