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The Last Wedding
''The Last Wedding'' ( fi, Kivenpyörittäjän kylä) is a 1995 Finnish comedy film directed by Markku Pölönen. The film was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Martti Suosalo as Pekka * Henrika Andersson as Meeri * Matti Varjo as Eljas * Tanja Kortelainen as Jaana * Jarmo Mäkinen as The Rockroller * Rauha Valkonen as Linnea See also * List of submissions to the 68th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Finnish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Finland has submitted thirty-five films for consideration in the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film category. The Award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length moti ... References External links * 1995 films 1995 comedy films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markku Pölönen
Markku Tapani Pölönen (born 16 September 1957 in Eno) is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, and editor; and the owner of film production company Suomen Filmiteollisuus. Pölönen's best known work is the 2004 film ''Dog Nail Clipper'' — written and directed by Pölönen — which was honoured in five categories at the 2005 Jussi Awards (Finland's premier film awards) including Best Direction and Best Script and which film critic Jay Weissberg from '' Variety'' called Pölönen's "most mature work to date". Pölönen has received numerous additional Jussi awards, including best picture and best screenplay for ''Onnen Maa'' (1994); best picture and best director for ''Kivenpyörittäjän kylä'' (1995); and best picture, best director, and best screenplay for ''A Summer by the River ''A Summer by the River'' ( fi, Kuningasjätkä) is a 1998 Finnish film written and directed by Markku Pölönen. The film is set in the 1950s Eastern Finland and tells the story of fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanja Kortelainen
Tanja ( sr, Тања) is a feminine given name. It may refer to: Mononyms *''Tanja'' (born 1983), Russian-Estonian singer, also known as Tanja Mihhailova Given name *Tanja Andrejeva (born 1978), Macedonian handball player *Tanja Bogosavljević (born 1989), Serbian handball player *Tanja Bošković (born 1953), Serbian actress *Tanja Carovska, Macedonian singer, songwriter, and composer *Tanja Chub (born 1970), Ukrainian-Dutch draughts player *Tanja Damaske (born 1971), German javelin thrower *Tanja Dickenscheid (born 1969), German field hockey player *Tanja Dragić (born 1991), Serbian Paralympian athlete *Tanja Eisenschmid (born 1993), German ice hockey player *Tanja Eisner (born 1980), Ukrainian and German mathematician *Tanja Fajon (born 1971), Slovenian politician and a journalist * Tanja Frieden (born 1976), Swiss snowboarder *Tanja Godina (born 1970), Slovenian backstroke swimmer *Tanja Hart (born 1974), German volleyball player *Tanja Hess, German bobsledder *Tanja Jacobs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Comedy Films
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, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. It may also refer to: *Finnish language * Suomi (surname) * Suomi, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Suomi College, in Hancock, Michigan, now referred to as Finlandia University * Suomi Island, Western ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Comedy Films
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1995 Films
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List Of Finnish Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Finland has submitted thirty-five films for consideration in the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film category. The Award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Finnish Academy Awards submission is selected by an expert jury which is chosen by the Finnish Film Foundation.http://www.ses.fi/en/news_news.asp?id=2470 All films listed below were accepted by AMPAS, although two films- '' Drifting Clouds'' and ''Lights in the Dusk''- were withdrawn by director Aki Kaurismäki after the films were sent to Hollywood in both 1996 and 2006. According to Mark Johnson, the chairman of the academy's foreign-language committee, he was told by the Finnish selection committee that Kaurismäki does not like film competitions. , only one Finnish film has been nominated for the Foreign Film Oscar- their 2002 submission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Submissions To The 68th Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 68th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country. For the 68th Academy Awards, forty-one films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The submission deadline was set on November 1, 1995. Bolivia and Tunisia submitted films for the first time. The Philippines returned to the competition after a nine-year absence. Iran unsuccessfully tried to withdraw the film from contention, but the Academy refused to acce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarmo Mäkinen
Jarmo Mäkinen (born 29 May 1958 in Karstula, Finland) is a Finnish actor. Mäkinen began acting in 1989 on television working consistently throughout the 1990s appearing in several films and TV series mostly notably in ''Vita lögner'' which he starred in 27 episodes in 1999. However, since 2000 he has gradually made more appearances on the big screen and in film he starred in the 2003 film ''Sibelius'' working with Finnish director Timo Koivusalo and actors such as Martti Suosalo, Heikki Nousiainen, Seela Sella, Miina Turunen and Vesa Vierikko. Most of Mäkinen's work in cinema has been in Swedish film where his powerful physical build has often seen him typecast as a bad guy. He is often regarded as one of the most famous or most popular Finns in Sweden. Filmography Film * ''Amor ampuu ohi'' (1990) - Tapani * ''Routasydän'' (1993) - Vanhanen * ''Paratiisin lapset'' (1994) - Athlete * ''The Last Wedding'' (1995) - The Rockroller * '' The Hunters'' (1996) - Tomme Harela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matti Varjo
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Matti may refer to: * Matti (given name), people with the given name * Matti (surname), people with the surname * Matti, Karnataka, a village in India * '' Matti: Hell Is for Heroes'', a 2006 film about Matti Nykänen See also * Masa (other) * Mati (other) Mati may refer to: Geography *Mati, Davao Oriental, Philippines, a city **Roman Catholic Diocese of Mati ** Mati Protected Landscape, a protected area in Davao Oriental, Philippines **Mati Airport, Davao Oriental, Philippines *Mati, a barangay in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martti Suosalo
Martti Juhani Suosalo (born 19 July 1962) is a Finnish actor and singer. Suosalo was born in Oulu, and began his career in 1986 with an appearance in a TV series. He began to work as a regular actor on Finnish television but also appeared in several films in the early 1990s such as the 1994 film '' Aapo'' alongside actors such as Taisto Reimaluoto, Ulla Koivuranta and Kai Lehtinen. While most of his work has been in television in 1999 Suosalo appeared in just about every major film produced in Finland that year appearing on the big screen in films such as ''Rentun Ruusu'', ''Sibelius'' and ''Lapin kullan kimallus''. In 2006, Suosalo has appeared in the TV series ''Ilonen talo'' and in the movie '' Kalteva torni'', which stars another Suosalo family member, his 7-year-old daughter Siiri Suosalo, in her first major movie role. Suosalo voiced the Finnish janitor Ahti in the 2019 video game ''Control'' by Remedy Entertainment, for which he won the British Academy Games Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrika Andersson
Henrika (Swedish; variants include Henrika, Henriikka, in Finnish, Henryka, in Polish; Henrica, (in Dutch) is a feminine given name, a female form of Henry. People with the name include: ;Henrika *Henrika Juliana von Liewen (1709–1779), Swedish noble, socialite and lady-in-waiting * (born 1962), Swedish-Finnish writer, translator and journalist * (born 1972), Swedish-Finnish historian ;Henriika *Henriikka Hietaniemi (born 1987), Finnish figure skater ;Henryka *Henryka Beyer (1782–1855), German painter active in Poland * Henryka Bochniarz (born 1947), Polish economist and government minister * Henryka Konarkowska (born 1938), Polish–Serbian chess master *Henryka Krzywonos (born 1953), Polish dissident *Henryka Łazowertówna (1909–1942), Polish lyric poet ;Henrica *Henrica van Erp (c.1480–1548), Dutch abbess and chronicler * Henrica "Erica" van den Heuvel (born 1966), Dutch badminton player * Leontine Martha Henrica Petronella "Leontien" van Moorsel (born 1970), Dutch cyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
