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Maria Sid
Maria Sid-Achrén (née Maria Sid, born 13 May 1968) is a Finnish actress. She is best known for her role in the Finnish satire television program '' Donna Paukku''. Sid lives and works in Finland and Sweden. Filmography * '' Akvaariorakkaus'' (1993) .... Morsian * '' Nainen kedolla'' (2003) .... Liisa Veräjä * ''Operation Stella Polaris'' (2003) .... Anna Höglund * ''Fling'' (2004) .... Camilla * '' Onnen varjot'' (2005) .... Nainen luokkajuhlissa * ''Reunion'' (2015) .... vastaanottovirkailija Television * '' Kätevä emäntä'' (2004) * '' Vasikantanssi'' (2004) .... Minna Vuorinen * '' Kirkkaalta taivaalta'' (2006) .... Mimmu * '' Donna Paukku'' (2006–2007) .... Donna Paukku * ''Karjalan kunnailla'' (2007, 2009) .... Kirsti Miettinen * ''The Moomins'' (2007–2008) .... Moominmamma (Swedish version) * '' Livet i Fagervik'' (2008) .... Annika * ''Crimes of Passion'' (2013) * ''Moomins on the Riviera'' (2014) .... Moominmamma (Finnish/Swedish versions) * '' Moomins a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karjalan Kunnailla (television Series)
( krl, Karjalan kumbuzil), , is a Finnish folk song. Lyrics were created by in 1902. Karelian also published an early Karelianist adaptation of Juva's original Finnish lyrics in the Livvi-Karelian language of East Karelia East Karelia ( fi, Itä-Karjala, Karelian: ''Idä-Karjala''), also rendered as Eastern Karelia or Russian Karelia, is a name for the part of Karelia that since the Treaty of Stolbova in 1617 has remained Eastern Orthodox under Russian supremacy .... The music of the Anthem of the Republic of Karelia was derived from this song. Lyrics References Finnish folk songs Karelian-Finnish folklore {{Karelia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Births
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being elected leader of the Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8. ** 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash: A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish-speaking Finns
The Swedish-speaking population of Finland (whose members are called by many names; fi, suomenruotsalainen) can be used as an attribute., group=Note—see below; sv, finlandssvenskar; fi, suomenruotsalaiset) is a linguistic minority in Finland. They maintain a strong identity and are seen either as a separate cultural or ethnic group, while still being considered ethnic Finns, or as a distinct nationality. They speak Finland Swedish, which encompasses both a standard language and distinct dialects that are mutually intelligible with the dialects spoken in Sweden and, to a lesser extent, other Scandinavian languages. According to Statistics Finland, Swedish is the mother tongue of about 260,000 people in mainland Finland and of about 26,000 people in Åland, a self-governing archipelago off the west coast of Finland, where Swedish speakers constitute a majority. Swedish-speakers comprise 5.2% of the total Finnish population or about 4.9% without Åland. The proportion has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Actresses
Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedis ..., the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moominvalley (TV Series)
''Moominvalley'' ( fi, Muumilaakso, sv, Mumindalen, also known as just ''Moomin'') is a 2019 animated family drama series. An adaptation of the classic ''Moomin'' books and comics by writer-illustrator Tove Jansson and her brother Lars Jansson, it is created using new techniques in 3D CGI. Finnish production company Gutsy Animations ran a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo from 8 March to 21 April 2017. The campaign was organised in order to raise funds towards visual development of the series. Animation company Anima Vitae was appointed as the lead animation company for the first two seasons of the series. The series attracted over 2.1 Million Finns and has become the most watched show ever on Yle Areena streaming platform and the most watched TV series of 2019 in the whole Finland. The series has 16 million streams on Yle Areena. The tremendously popular series is Finland's most expensive TV show with a €20 million budget. In 2019 the series' first episode was the most w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All The Sins
''All the Sins'' ( fi, Kaikki synnit) is a Finnish crime drama television series created and written by film director Mika Ronkainen and journalist Merja Aakko. The series is set in a deeply religious Laestadian Lutheran community in Varjakka, northern Finland. The first season of the series, commissioned by Elisa Viihde, premiered in Finland in April 2019 and the second season in October 2020. The series has been sold worldwide to more than thirty countries. Plot Season 1 After leaving home 10 years ago, detective Lauri Räihä is sent to investigate the murders of two men in the small northern Finnish town where he grew up. The investigation offers a way to escape couples' therapy and his failing relationship with his husband. But going home forces him to face his family and the deeply religious Laestadian community that rejected him many years previously. Together with his partner, Sanna Tervo, a carefree soul on the surface, but also someone who has their own difficult past, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moomins And The Winter Wonderland
''The Moomins'' (Polish: ''Opowiadania Muminków'', German: ''Die Mumins'') is a stop motion animated children's television series based on the Tove Jansson's Moomin series of books which was produced by Se-ma-for and Jupiter Film between 1977 and 1982 for Polish, Austrian and German television. The series was later sold to other countries including the UK. The British version was adapted by Anne Wood at FilmFair for ITV Central and broadcast in the UK. Series 1 was first shown on Monday 24 January 1983 at 4:15 pm and series 2 on Monday 7 January 1985 at 4.15pm on Children's ITV, and series 2 was repeated in 1986. The series was last repeated in its entirety in 1988. It was narrated by British actor Richard Murdoch. This series was the third series to be made based on the Moomin books. Two more were subsequently made. It is one of the two best-known Moomin series (along with the Japanese-made anime version ''Moomin (1990 TV series), Moomin'' (1990). The 1977–1982 stop- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moomins On The Riviera
''Moomins on the Riviera'' (Finnish title: ''Muumit Rivieralla'') is a 2014 Finnish-French animated family comedy film directed by Xavier Picard and produced by Hanna Hemilä, who is also co-director. The film is based on ''Moomin'' comic strips by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson. The film is a co-production of Finnish Handle Productions, French Pictak Cie and Chinese Sandman Animation Studio. Written by Leslie Stewart, Annina Enckell, Hanna Hemilä, Xavier Picard and Beata Harju, the English version of the film stars Russell Tovey as Moomin, Nathaniel Parker as Moominpappa and Tracy Ann Oberman as Moominmamma. The film is based on the ''Moomin'' Tove Jansson's original comic strip: ''Moomin on the Riviera'' and it is the first animated feature based on the comic strips. In the film, the Moomins along with Snorkmaiden and Little My sail for the Riviera, where their unity is threatened. Snorkmaiden is dazzled by the attentions of the playboy Clark Tresco and Moominpappa befriends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimes Of Passion (TV Series)
''Crimes of Passion'' is the English collective title for a series of six feature-length crime films released in 2013, based on six of the early novels of the prolific Swedish crime novelist Maria Lang (real name Dagmar Lange), written in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The films were co-produced by Svensk Filmindustri and Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4. The first film was released in Swedish cinemas on 8 March 2013, and received indifferent or poor reviews from most Swedish critics. The remaining five were released on DVD in Sweden during the autumn of 2013 and were all made available on TV4's subscription video on demand service TV4 Play Premium in June 2014. In October and November 2014, the six films were shown on TV4's DTTV service. On 11 December 2013 BBC Four announced that it had bought the British broadcasting rights to ''Crimes of Passion'', with the series premiering on BBC Four on 30 August 2014. The films have been described as ''Mad Men'' meeting '' The Killing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livet I Fagervik
Livet () is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France. Livet is also: * , founder of the institution Livet, now lycée Eugène-Livet (in Nantes, France). * Several former towns in France were named Livet. See also *Communes of the Mayenne department The following is a list of the 240 communes of the Mayenne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):mairie de livet en charnie References Communes of Mayenne {{Mayenne-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moominmamma
A large number of characters appear in the ''Moomin'' series by Tove Jansson. The original Swedish names are given with the etymologies and word associations suggested by Yvonne Bertills in her 2003 dissertation. Alicia ( sv, Alissa, fi, Aliisa) – Alice, the Witch's granddaughter, likes the Moomins and plays with them on the sly whenever the Witch is otherwise occupied. She is a witch-in-training herself, and develops several magic skills during the series, most notable walking on water, underwater-breathing, and running at lightning speed. Like the Witch, she first appeared in the 1990 animated series and does not appear in the original stories or comic strips. Anthony Anthony is Nanna's Groom The Ancestor ( sv, Förfadern, fi, Esi-isä) – the Moomintrolls descend from ancient creatures living in tiled stoves. One of those is still dwelling in the Moomin family's bathing house cupboard and stove. He is called the Ancestor and makes appearances in ''Moominland Midwin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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