Matti Oravisto

AKA: Matti Ollonqvist, Матти Орависто

1.0069

1921-10-23

Helsinki, Finland

Biography

Crew Roles

Yhden yön hinta

Assistant Director

Senni ja Savon sulttaani

Director

Komppanian neropatit

Director

Tähtisilmä

Director

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {65}

Korpi

1949-08-19 5

Kalle-Kustaa Korkin seikkailut

Pekka Lipponen is trying to trace hidden diamonds before a group of bandits finds them. He enlists his friend Kalle-Kustaa Korkki to help him. ...

Genre :Comedy, Adventure

Student

1946-10-10 6

"Minä elän"

The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Kertoja

1965-12-15 0

Mr. Pedestrian

Genre :Documentary, Comedy

Vieno

1954-11-19 3.5

Rakastin sinua, Hilde

Two guys love the some girl who just plays with their feelings. Situation damages the friendship of these men and they are tormented as the girl doesn't love back. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1977-12-27 0

Landet som icke är

A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a lar ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Nimismies Kavonkulma

1979-05-14 5.167

Onnellinen mies

Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge construction site, but he quickly finds himself clashin ...

Genre :

Martti Ritari

1957-10-04 0

Vihdoinkin hääyö…

Elina and Pentti are celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary and have invited Elina's cousin Ann-Mari and her husband Teemu to their village. During the evening, the group begins reminiscing about ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

1958-12-19 5.3

Sven Tuuva the Hero

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 Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that ea ...

Genre :War, Drama

Aarne Lokka

1959-12-25 5

Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen

Olli Suominen has been appointed acting sheriff in the countryside, and the whole family has left for Kesäranta to spend the summer. The peaceful rural life is interrupted when small farmer Pullin's h ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1986-12-19 6

Näkemiin, hyvästi

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implic ...

Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1947-08-01 2

Pikku-Matti maailmalla

Little Matti, who has been living in the countryside with his grandmother, leaves for Helsinki to search for his missing mother, Kerttu. In the city, he is helped by Taneli, a homeless alcoholic artis ...

Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1953-08-28 0

Se alkoi sateessa

Vuokko takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a fishing hut and meets a mysterious man whom she suspects is the smuggler Rompan Eetu. Instead of reporting him, Vuokko decides to follow him to Helsinki t ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Jaakko

1962-10-26 5

Kun tuomi kukkii

A farm trader falls in love with a rich girl with many admirers. ...

Genre :Drama

1961-02-03 2.667

Minkkiturkki

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates. ...

Genre :Comedy

Usko Siltanen

1954-02-28 5.538

Scarlet Week

After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking around the now deserted island, he meets a beautiful ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Kristian Haapanen / Rantanen

1961-03-10 5.8

The Scarlet Dove

Dr. Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa follows his wife to the city a ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

jälkiäänitysääni / Peter Mackus

1972-10-13 4

Haluan rakastaa Peter

A middle aged widower Sanna has emigrated to Sweden after her husband's death . She lives in Linköping with her two children and works in the local library. During one of the lectures held for the imm ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Narrator

1951-02-23 4

Aila – Pohjolan tytär

A tragedy told by an American visiting Lapland about Aila, daughter of a reindeer herder, who falls in love with Reino, a reindeer thief. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

J. Robert Oppenheimer

1967-10-11 8

Oppenheimerin tapaus

A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Arvid

1948-10-09 6

People in the Summer Night

A story set over one night in a small rural community we watch various relationships and actions among local people; these include birth, death, and conflicts fuelled by alcohol. The fates of various ...

Genre :Drama

Toivo Pajunen

1965-12-17 6

Adventure Starts Here

Fashion Designer Anne must decide between Toivo, an architect ten years her senior, and French businessman, Jacques, with whom she's been living for three years. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

'Jaska' Hurme

1958-08-15 2

Sotapojan heilat

A military farce from a rookie with over a hundred female pen pals. ...

Genre :Comedy

Tauno Tuomaala

1956-08-30 7

Evakko

Evakko is a portrayal of Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939/40 and the associated evacuations in different parts of the country. It tells the story of a Karelian family along with their whole village w ...

Genre :Drama, History, War

Erik Öhman

1980-12-05 0

Martinin rikos

A story about the conflicting emotions of love and hate, duty and selfishness in the human mind. ...

Genre :TV Movie

Narrator

1967-09-19 2

Katoavaa Tamperetta

Genre :Documentary

kertoja

1970-02-28 0

Maaseudun tulevaisuus?

Genre :

kertoja

1970-01-23 4.833

Kesäkapina

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and ...

Genre :Drama

narrator

1969-08-15 0

Näin syntyi Saimaan kanava

Finnish documentary film. ...

Genre :Documentary

Pentti Petäjämaa

1959-11-20 2

Kohtalo tekee siirron

Three brothers, all with their own problems that could be solved by money, try to come up with a plan to get they share of their uncle's fortune. Then a murder takes place and it is the job of a detec ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Erkki Takala

1963-02-21 6

Commando Assault

Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944. ...

Genre :War

Anna-Liisa's father

1985-01-01 0

Raamit ränniin

A boy dreams to become like his ski jumping idol Jari Puikkonen. However, his parents are worried because he neglects the school. One day while going on practice, he rescues a baby left in a car with ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Niilo

1947-02-16 6.6

Intohimon vallassa

A young woman is forced into an arranged marriage by her family in hopes of securing their future, but her husband turns out to be an alcoholic brute of a man and she longs for the man she truly loves ...

Genre :Drama

Hermit

1991-12-06 0

Uppo-Nalle

Little girl finds a teddy bear from the seashore. Reeta and Teddy Uppo form a deep friendship with each other, but what happens when Uppo meets an old hermit? ...

Genre :Family

1967-10-17 0

Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti

Genre :

Narrator

1968-02-23 0

M/S Finlandia

Building and launching the cruise ship M/S Finlandia ...

Genre :Documentary

Axel

1948-07-09 4.5

Toukokuun taika

Tuija Suvi, who works as a model, is delivering a dress to the daughter of a commercial counselor, but she has an accident and ends up meeting musician Asko Kari. Asko assumes that Tuija is the daught ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Erik Vaara

1960-09-09 7.1

Inspector Palmu's Error

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. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Professor

1984-09-07 2

Angela's War

In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in Lapland who begins a torrid affair with Thomas Schmidt (Mathieu Carriere), a wounded German army captain. Thei ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Lauri Koskinen 'Lord Nelson'

1953-02-27 7.3

Varsovan laulu

A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Erkki Pontus

1952-02-22 6

Yhden yön hinta

The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1969-11-14 6.3

The Brothers

Two brothers, two different lifestyles collide. Eero is a young married man who opens up a print shop and struggles to get it going. Eki is a student with Marxist ideas, although he dates the daughter ...

Genre :Drama

Kosti Kula

1969-09-12 5.4

Vodkaa, komisario Palmu

A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Markus Reinman / Narrator (voice)

1960-01-15 0

Lumisten metsien tyttö

Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki. ...

Genre :Drama

Father

1973-12-18 6

Klyftan

A story about 10-year-old Ruth and her life in Jakobstad in the years 1917-1918, during the Finnish Civil War. Based on a novel by Anna Bondestam. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Paavo Ponsimaa

1985-09-27 5.5

Ylösnousemus

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Harri Adler

1951-01-26 5

Lakeuksien lukko

Set in rural Ostrobothnia in 1859, Tuomas Kantola, a farmer, is the only peasant in the village who does not sell his land to Lohikoski's boss Adler, and even starts to annoy him by building a dam to ...

Genre :Drama, History

Priest

1959-09-04 5.8

Punainen viiva

The story of the first elections in Finland. Farmer Topi Romppainen lives a modest life with his family in Kainuu in the early 20th century. While shopping in the village, Topi hears about the upcomin ...

Genre :Drama, History

Jaakko Mettinen

1952-10-24 2

Muhoksen Mimmi

The story of poor brake man Jaakko and beautiful train conductor Mimmi, who is also admired by welder Heikki, rapper Ranssu, bricklayer Martsu, and engineer Immu. The story also involves Jenny and Ale ...

Genre :Comedy

Ville Toikka

1956-03-23 5.5

Lain mukaan

Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the previous fall, when Patron Oppman begins to approach M ...

Genre :Drama

Tiedustelu-upseeri (uncredited)

1957-08-09 0

Herra sotaministeri

Kalle, a shy and absent-minded civil servant at the comparison agency, unwittingly becomes Minister of War. He receives help in his new role from Maria, the daughter of Finance Minister Karpio. Proble ...

Genre :Comedy

Lauri Huurros

1954-12-31 4

Leena

Unemployed girl shoplifts in department store. Son of a wealthy family notice the shoplifting but won't turn her in. After awhile they are seen together and press thinks they are engaged. ...

Genre :Comedy

Nimismies

1955-09-30 6.7

Villi Pohjola

A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor. ...

Genre :Western, Adventure

Erik

1956-02-03 5

Tyttö tuli taloon

Hitchhiking girls Eila and Tilly end up at screenwriter Saku's summer house by mistake, thinking it's their cousin's. ...

Genre :Comedy

Narrator (voice)

1973-02-24 9

Laukaus tehtaalla

The events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style. ...

Genre :Drama

Commandant Carl von Wendt

1980-10-17 4.833

Flame Top

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film ric ...

Genre :Drama

Aarne Kalevi

1953-11-20 3

Senni ja Savon sulttaani

University student Jaakko and master's degree holder Aarne arrive in a rural village, where they become involved in organizing a charity event and the relationship problems of farmhand Kaapro and maid ...

Genre :Comedy

Otto Hurme

1972-01-01 0

Hiekkakuningas

A story about one man's success and another's demise. Algoth Mäki, who moved to southern Finland in search of work, encounters the harsh world of gravel mining, where others succumb, but Hurme, the Sa ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Doctor Söderqvist

1999-11-26 5

Little Sister

Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryma ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Voice-over

2001-03-07 10

The Diver

The Diver is a hymn to diving and the aesthetics of movement. It is a dreamlike collage of movement, music and narration honouring the most beautiful sport there is. Helge Wasenius (b. 1927), The Gran ...

Genre :Documentary

Assarias Pura

1976-12-29 0

Isännät ja isäntien varjot

Time of depression in the 1930s. "Poverty and abundant wealth have simultaneously filled the earth's circle. The peasant's cornerstones are moving." Iso Herneinen's mistress is dead and grief lives in ...