Esko Salminen
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.63 |
| Birthday | 1940-10-12 |
| Place of Birth | Helsinki, Finland |
| Also Known As |
1987
Hamlet Goes Business
6.628/43
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on...
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Hamlet Goes Business
1961
Preludes to Ecstasy
4.2/10
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and bec...
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Preludes to Ecstasy
1984
Niskavuori
6.2/4
Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with his marriage, fall in...
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Niskavuori
1988
Plainlands
5.8/10
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical ment...
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Plainlands
2011
The Storage
5/13
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his...
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The Storage
2013
August Fools
5.5/6
An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop,...
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August Fools
1992
The Prodigal Son
5.4/7
Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings...
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The Prodigal Son
1986
Harmagedon
7/1
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Harmagedon
2014
Boy Upside Down
6/2
A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.
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Boy Upside Down
2005
Mother of Mine
6.628/39
1943: Nine-year-old Eero whose father is killed during the war is brought to Sweden to foster parents to his protection like thousands of other Finnis...
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Mother of Mine
1994
Kaikki pelissä
5.75/8
A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him...
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Kaikki pelissä
1961
Toivelauluja
3/1
A film centered around a popular Finnish song book
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Toivelauluja
1967
Pähkähullu Suomi
5.333/9
A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the film’s...
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Pähkähullu Suomi
2011
Brothers
4.75/4
Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father’s 70th birthday: nihilistic writer Ivar, faile...
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Brothers
1994
Aapo
5/2
Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.
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Aapo
2017
The Dissidents
6/11
In Soviet-era Estonia, three young mavericks drop everything and flee to Sweden, but soon learn the free world is not all it's cracked up to be.
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The Dissidents
1970
Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika
5.563/8
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Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika
2018
Super Furball
2.7/5
Emilia is a suburban kid. She goes to school, lives with her Mom and sometimes her Dad, and her life couldn’t be more ordinary. But one day Emilia’s p...
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Super Furball
1964
Make Like a Thief
2.5/2
Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor,...
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Make Like a Thief
1978
Poet and Muse
4.5/2
Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on...
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Poet and Muse
1962
Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu
6.684/19
A man's body is found on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki. Palmu starts to investigate the case, but the scandalous newspaper story causes problems for the...
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Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu
1993
Marraskuun harmaa valo
5.7/3
Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun....
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Marraskuun harmaa valo
1994
Uuno Turhapuron veli
2.667/6
Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.
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Uuno Turhapuron veli
2018
The Storage 2
5/3
Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is f...
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The Storage 2
1966
Rakkaus alkaa aamuyöstä
4.7/3
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Rakkaus alkaa aamuyöstä
1981
Pedon merkki
4.6/7
Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
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Pedon merkki
2017
Honeybunnies
4.9/11
A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker.
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Honeybunnies
2008
Suuri Performanssi
6/1
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Suuri Performanssi
2002
Kymmenen riivinrautaa
3.5/4
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Kymmenen riivinrautaa
1982
Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
5.5/4
The King Without a Heart is a fairytale about of a happy king who has a young daughter and a lovely wife. After the sudden death of his wife, the king...
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Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä
1999
Kiss Me in the Rain
5.3/6
Middle-aged Maire's husband spends most of his time abroad on business. Alone in their large house, Maire fills her empty life by absorbing other peop...
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Kiss Me in the Rain
1961
Tähtisumua
2/1
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Tähtisumua
1961
Tyttö ja hattu
6.2/2
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Tyttö ja hattu
1963
Jengi
5/2
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Jengi
1966
Johan nyt on markkinat!
5/2
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Johan nyt on markkinat!
1988
Ariel
7.101/322
After the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for the city to make a living but there, he is framed and...
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Ariel
1993
The Last Border
4.231/13
One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world
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The Last Border
1960
Inspector Palmu's Error
6.967/30
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
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Inspector Palmu's Error
1961
Gas, Inspector Palmu!
7.409/22
A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu...
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Gas, Inspector Palmu!
1989
The Winter War
7/78
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 pr...
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The Winter War
1998
Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
7/2
The main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest office of one of Tibetan Buddhism's main sects and the...
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Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity
1980
Flame Top
5.3/3
This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila'...
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Flame Top
2012
Gloriously Wasted
4.455/22
Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life -...
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Gloriously Wasted
2006
Unna and Nuuk
6/5
11-year-old Unna travels in time to the stone age with the help of a magic drum.
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Unna and Nuuk
2012
Once Upon a Time in the North
6.024/21
19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditional...
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Once Upon a Time in the North
1983
Apinan vuosi
7/1
A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures.
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Apinan vuosi
1960
Scandal in the Girls' School
8/1
The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the school. In addition to the loosening morals of the st...
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Scandal in the Girls' School
1961
Kultainen vasikka
0/0
Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.
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Kultainen vasikka
1949
Katupeilin takana
5/4
1892. Vappu Biörcke and Kaarlo Härkönen get to know each other during the summer in the countryside at the birthday of Vappu Jalle-sedä. In Helsinki,...
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Katupeilin takana
1987
Siriuksen vieraat
1/1
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Siriuksen vieraat
1989
Cha Cha Cha
6.7/7
A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American au...
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Cha Cha Cha
1958
Sven Tuuva the Hero
5/4
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Rus...
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Sven Tuuva the Hero
1959
Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
3.7/7
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Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
1960
Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
2/2
Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends about...
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Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
1960
Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä
4.2/5
Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.
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Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä
1960
Opettajatar seikkailee
4.8/4
An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagr...
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Opettajatar seikkailee
1961
Minkkiturkki
3.5/2
A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
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Minkkiturkki
2014
Hyväntekijä
5/2
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Hyväntekijä
1984
Vieras
0/0
A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman.
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Vieras
1991
Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
4.1/10
Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.
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Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
1976
Seitsemän Veljestä
0/0
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Seitsemän Veljestä
1988
Yötyö
0/0
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Yötyö
1986
Valkoinen kääpiö
3.5/2
The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.
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Valkoinen kääpiö
2024
Not Withholding Anything from You
0/0
How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how does the writer/director Saara Turunen create a who...
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Not Withholding Anything from You
1984
Kolme salaisuutta
0/0
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Kolme salaisuutta
1999
Days of Grace
0/0
Set in the year 1742 a fisherman's film about a boy who ends leprosy on the island.
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Days of Grace
1968
Vain neljä kertaa
0/0
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