Esko Salminen

AKA:
0.445

1940-10-12

Helsinki, Finland

Biography

Crew Roles

Brothers
Dialogue
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {78}

Suvi's father

1983-11-11 7

Apinan vuosi

A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Heikki Holm

1960-04-29 7

Scandal in the Girls' School

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 students, the warm relationship between two girls is ...
Genre :Comedy, History

(uncredited)

1949-11-04 4.2

Katupeilin takana

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, the young people continue their courtship under th ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, History

Soldier in Photo Studio (uncredited)

1961-11-24 8

Kultainen vasikka

Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Klaus

1987-08-21 6.708

Hamlet Goes Business

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 the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamle ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Juhani

1976-01-01 0

Seitsemän Veljestä

In the 1970s, Turku City Theater staged an adaptation of Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers, directed by Kalle Holmberg. The premiere was in 1972, and performances continued for three years. The play was t ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Adventure, Comedy

Orvo Pruun

1987-04-09 1

Siriuksen vieraat

Anders flees his drug debts to his former home village. Once there, he must come to terms with his past. ...
Genre :Drama

Reino Tuomainen

1961-12-01 4.042

Preludes to Ecstasy

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Dancing teacher

1989-01-20 6.778

Cha Cha Cha

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 aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if ...
Genre :Comedy

Aarne Niskavuori

1984-12-21 6

Niskavuori

Ilona, a young teacher, arrives in a village in Tavastia. She and Aarne, the wealthy owner of the Niskavuori farm, who is frustrated with his marriage, fall in love. The relationship becomes a public ...
Genre :Drama

Veikko

1988-02-26 5.8

Plainlands

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 mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perha ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

(uncredited)

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

(uncredited)

1960-05-13 3.6

Kaks' tavallista Lahtista

The musical comedy tells the story of two friends about Usko and Toivo, both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

(uncredited)

1959-09-18 4.6

Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina

Justiina pushes Pekka and Pätkä to take painting lessons after realizing that art can be a way to earn a living. With the help of the yard children, a painting is created that wins first prize at a co ...
Genre :Comedy

Olli (uncredited)

1960-03-11 5

Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä

Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers. ...
Genre :Comedy

Kataja

2011-12-30 5.219

The Storage

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 daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough fo ...
Genre :Comedy

Boy

1960-10-28 4.2

Opettajatar seikkailee

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 chagrin. She is intent on keeping the painting out of c ...
Genre :Comedy

Man

1988-12-01 0

Yötyö

Genre :

Kurre

1961-02-03 2.667

Minkkiturkki

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

Kansliapäällikkö Ståhl

2013-10-04 5.1

August Fools

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, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When J ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Bert

1986-02-14 3

Valkoinen kääpiö

The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia. ...
Genre :Drama

Erkki

2014-02-16 2.333

Hyväntekijä

An adult love story – as wistful as a Finnish tango. ...
Genre :Drama

Lindström

1992-10-30 5.222

The Prodigal Son

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 Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he ...
Genre :Drama

1986-03-28 7

Harmagedon

A film about the end of the world. ...
Genre :Drama, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Jaakko

2014-08-29 5.667

Boy Upside Down

A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Inspector Max Nummensyrjä

1994-04-15 5.333

Kaikki pelissä

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 and it is based on true story. Töysä also says th ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Eero Lahti - nykyaika

2005-09-30 6.625

Mother of Mine

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 Finnish children. Eero feels lost, particularly as his f ...
Genre :Drama, War

1984-09-24 0

Vieras

A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Manolito

1970-08-28 5.625

Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika

Speedy Gonzales arrives in a small village in New York to investigate the mysterious death of his brother Moses, with the help of the lively Rita. In the village, they are met by Hämeen Hitain, Manoli ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Ruotsalainen vakooja

1991-10-18 4.429

Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet

Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies. ...
Genre :Comedy

2024-03-07 0

Not Withholding Anything from You

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 whole new world for the stage, and why does musician ...
Genre :Documentary

kertoja

1984-06-26 0

Kolme salaisuutta

Genre :Documentary

Henrik Bäär

1999-08-06 0

Days of Grace

A fisherman's son accidentally ends up in a leper colony in 1742. ...
Genre :Drama

Pekka

1961-03-23 3

Toivelauluja

A film centered around a popular Finnish song book. Young lovers Pirkko and Pekka break off their engagement at the end of an evening spent at a dance restaurant. At home, Pirkko finds a songbook in h ...
Genre :Music

Lasse Lehtimäki

1968-11-15 0

Vain neljä kertaa

Lasse divorces his second wife Pirko when it turns out that he has a child with Raija. They get married, but as Lasse reflects on his three marriages, he soon becomes unsure whether marrying for the s ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Luigi Cravatto

1967-08-25 5.5

Pähkähullu Suomi

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 whole premise is about presenting Finland in hila ...
Genre :Comedy

Paavo

2011-03-18 5.333

Brothers

Three brothers from three different mothers meet for the first time since years for their mutual father’s 70th birthday: nihilistic writer Ivar, failed film producer Mitja, and resentful caretaker Tor ...
Genre :Drama

Kertoja

1994-07-29 5

Aapo

Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins. ...
Genre :Drama

Lars-Jukka Lampinen

2017-02-17 5.7

The Dissidents

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. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

Giant guinea pig (voice)

2018-01-26 2.8

Super Furball

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 pet hamster bites her finger. Emilia gets a secret ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy

Kari, Helvi Östman's henchman

1964-11-20 2.6

Make Like a Thief

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, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but mana ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Ville Valkonen

1962-09-07 6.5

Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu

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 police. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Eino Leino

1978-10-13 5

Poet and Muse

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 his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Kari Syysmäki

1993-04-23 5.8

Marraskuun harmaa valo

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. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Tarmo Turhapuro

1994-08-26 2.5

Uuno Turhapuron veli

Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped. ...
Genre :Comedy

Kataja

2018-02-16 5

The Storage 2

Rousku and Raninen are fleeing their unemployment by setting up a construction company. Occupational illiteracy is not an obstacle and accounting is fine when Rouskun's mate deals with things. The ent ...
Genre :Comedy

Rallin voittaja Veikkola

1966-11-04 4.25

Rakkaus alkaa aamuyöstä

Erkki leaves the army and sets out to find himself. In the countryside, he finds new love and the courage to stand up to his strict father. ...
Genre :Drama

Kaarlo

1981-09-25 4.111

Pedon merkki

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Matteus

2017-01-06 4.6

Honeybunnies

A private detective engages in a sexually-charged relationship with a real estate broker. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Salomonsen

2008-12-08 6

Suuri Performanssi

Genre :

Rauno Rämekorpi

2002-08-30 3.9

Kymmenen riivinrautaa

Rauno Rämekorpi is celebrating his 60th birthday. He has been awarded the title of Industrial Counsellor, and the company's management has commissioned a biography of him. After the celebrations, the ...
Genre :Comedy

Kertoja

1982-12-17 5.5

Kuningas jolla ei ollut sydäntä

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 becomes so sad that he wants his heart taken out ...
Genre :Fantasy, Family

Esa Linnainmaa

1999-09-17 4.8

Kiss Me in the Rain

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 people's tragedies from tabloid newspapers. Obsessed b ...
Genre :Drama

Esko Salminen

1961-01-13 2

Tähtisumua

Pirkko Mannola and Esko Salminen play young pop stars of the same name, who develop a secret romance that is kept hidden from the other musicians in the pop orchestra. Between musical scenes, Pirkko i ...
Genre :Music

Ilmari Kosonen

1961-08-04 6.2

Tyttö ja hattu

Mirja finds her grandmother's old hat in the attic and sets off singing along the road with it on her head. On her journey, she meets composer couple Theodor and Thea Tekonen and gets a ride from hat ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Paavo Korpela

1963-03-15 5

Jengi

Paavo and Eeva, two young people who have moved from the countryside to the city, meet a gang led by Kalle, who spend their time loitering and committing petty crimes. A fateful evening on a motorboat ...
Genre :Drama

Heikki Lilja

1966-03-31 5

Johan nyt on markkinat!

The life of First Lieutenant Heikki Lilja, who is dating Colonel Taipale's daughter Tiina, is turned upside down when his company is ordered to search for the dangerous escaped convict Kahle-Kustaa. T ...
Genre :Comedy

Crook

1988-10-21 7.102

Ariel

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime

Jake's Father

1993-08-20 4

The Last Border

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action

Leppä

1961-09-15 7.4

Gas, Inspector Palmu!

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 notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Boy in Pool (uncredited)

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

Matti Laurila

1989-11-30 7

The Winter War

After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipali ...
Genre :Drama, War

Narrator, Finnish version (voice)

1998-03-13 7

Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity

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 third in line after the Dalai Lama and Panchen La ...
Genre :Documentary

Eino

2012-12-28 4.333

Gloriously Wasted

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 - just the opposite. He really enjoys sundry sexual ...
Genre :Comedy

Arwid

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

Ukki

2006-01-20 6

Unna and Nuuk

11-year-old Unna travels in time to the stone age with the help of a magic drum. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Family

Antti Välitalo

2012-02-17 5.7

Once Upon a Time in the North

19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so whe ...
Genre :Drama

2024-01-04 6

Aarne Tarkas - suomalainen elokuva kiittää

Aarne Tarkas was a wunderkind of Finnish cinema, a director and screenwriter, a genius who possessed not only an infinite supply of ideas but also a photographic memory. In the 50s and 60s he had a pr ...
Genre :

Self

2010-09-03 6.2

Vesku from Finland

"Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a significant career also as a singer, performer, writer an ...
Genre :Documentary

Pohjoisnapaguru

2015-03-28 0

Napamiehet

Genre :Comedy

Ivan Smith

1993-03-15 0

Tuntemattomalle Jumalalle

Genre :Drama

Uki Kukkamaa

2000-01-10 6.9

Raid

Raid is based on detective stories by author Harri Nykänen and made into a 12-part series. The story tells about a police officer who has been investigating white-collar crimes is shot dead in a TV-s ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Johtaja Pampucci

1976-11-16 0

Iso viulu - kaks sataa

Genre :Comedy

Pohjola

1982-02-28 5.1

The Age of Iron

Rauta-aika (The Age of Iron) is a dramatic four-part miniseries completed in 1982 by Finnish broadcast network Yle TV2. The production attempts to adapt the national epic of Finland, the Kalevala, for ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Markus Rauta

2006-10-01 6.7

Rikospoliisi ei laula

Genre :Drama, Crime

Matti Laurila

1991-11-20 8

The Winter War

After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipali ...
Genre :War & Politics, Drama

Narrator (uncredited)

1982-02-16 0

Kuolema savolaiseen tapaan

Genre :

Henri

2017-06-10 6

Rakkautta vain

Genre :