Peter Franzén

Peter Franzén

Country: Finland

Total Credits at Criticker: 29 (Actor), 1 (Director)

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    Ambush
    It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for possible Russian defensive positions. When the platoon rests in a newly conquered village Lt. Perkola meets his fiancee Kaarina Vainikainen, who is serving in the Women's Auxilary Corps (Lotta). (imdb)
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    Matti
    A movie about the life of Matti Nykänen, with Finnish actor Jasper Pääkkönen cast as Nykänen, concentrating on Nykänen's exploits outside the ski-jumping hills. (Wikipedia)
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    Badding
    Perpetually bothered by stage-fright, singer Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki runs away from a gig in Helsinki. One of his old friends is sent to do a story on him for a newspaper, and they travel to their former home village in the country. The characters' interaction and memories illustrate the singer's life and feelings. (imdb)
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    Koirankynnen leikkaaja
    Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws... (imdb)
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    Kuningasjätkä
    Topi's mother, who is also Tenho's wife dies and Tenho and Topi have to move out from the town because they don't have enough money to pay their rent. Tenho gets a job as a lumberjack (which by the way is the title in Finnish). The movie tells the story about Tenho and his 10 years old son who both have to grow up in the same summer. (imdb)
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    Kuutamolla
    Lovers & Leavers is about Iiris, a 30-year-old bookstore assistant, who meets the man of her dreams.
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    Pahat pojat
    The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash. The cast is an impressive one: the brothers are portrayed by Peter Franzen, Lauri Nurkse, Niko Saarela and Jasper Pääkkönen while their really evil father is played by Vesa-Matti Loiri, one of the grand old men of Finnish cinema. (imdb)
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    Rölli ja metsänhenki
    Rölli's tribe of goblins comes ashore on a land inhabited by wood sprites. The wood sprites initially run away in fear but then a war starts. But Milli Menninkäinen (Maria Järvenhelmi) befriends Rölli and the pair try to stop the war (themakeupgallery.org)
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    Jewel of the Sahara
    A bad camel joke put on celluloid... (IMDB Comments)
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    Lieksa!
    The Koppelos are an old family of tailors way back from the court of Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia. They are in constant journey for the place of their happier future. For them "El Dorado" is a town called Lieksa. Love, hate and troubles of all kind, that`s life, but like in almost every road movie, the journey it self here is the point. "Your home is where your heart is." (YouTube)
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    Tie naisen sydämeen
    Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman, who claims that she is being kept there by force. Penttilä starts to investigate the case and he ends up in to a little town named Järvensuu. There he drifts in to a conflict with the local mob. (imdb)
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    Emmauksen tiellä
    A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic. (imdb)
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    Rööperi
    Based on a book "Rööperi - rikoksen vuodet 1955-2005", the movie tells the story of the Finnish criminal underground of the 60's in Helsinkis then feared area called Punavuori - or Rööperi.
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    Kolme viisasta miestä
    Matti (51), a police inspector, Erkki (51), photographer and Rauno (51), actor, are childhood friends, who haven't seen each other for a long time. They meet accidentally on Christmas Eve in Helsinki and spend the night together in a karaoke bar. Between drinking and singing they tell about the joys and sorrows of their lives, revealing some painfull experiences and taking even their friendship apart. The events take a dramatic turn, when a mysterious woman enters the bar.
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    Ralliraita
    A Finnish comedy about rally driving.
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    Prinsessa
    The movie is based on a real story about a woman with selective mutism who is admitted to a mental institute in the mid-1940s. She overcomes her mutism and starts acting like a princess, helping both her fellow patients and doctors to understand the dignity in every human being.
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    Harjunpää & pahan pappi
    Timo Harjunpää loses his daughter in a murder. The family tries to come to terms with the loss of their daughter but Timo becomes estranged from his wife. At the same time, the city is in the throes of inexplicable multiple killings in the subway system. (imdb)
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    Body of Water
    A single mother comes back her home village to fight for saving the small lake. She moves in the old house which's got problem with water. And soon all other problems too starts to fall on her in big scale. (MuutaNet)
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    Road North
    A sly riff on the Prodigal Son story, Mika Kaurismaki's latest -- about a joyless workaholic concert pianist who ends up on a wild ride with his long-lost rapscallion father -- is a funny and cogent analysis of machismo, abandonment issues and the value of reconnecting with one's roots. (tiff.net)
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    Puhdistus
    A tormented young woman is given a hiding place by an elderly lady and soon they are reminded of their mutual horrendous past. (imdb)
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    Kerron sinulle kaiken
    Story about today's relationships where nothing is self-evident. There is no more ready made model for love. Everyone has to create their own morality. Draw the line, and sometimes when their heart tells, cross it.
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    Leijonasydän
    Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings. (imdb)
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    The Gunman
    A former Special Forces soldier and military contractor suffering from PTSD tries to reconnect with his long time love, but first must go on the run from London to Barcelona and across Europe in order to clear his name. (imdb)
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    Jättiläinen
    Fictionalized story about the founding of the ill-fated Finnish mining company Talvivaara. (imdb)
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    At Point Blank
    A group of very efficient robbers strikes banks in downtown area of Stockholm. Detective Klara and commanding officer Krona takes on the case. (imdb)
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    Ashes in the Snow
    In 1941, a 16 year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history. (imdb)
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    Babas bilar
    Jojo is out of money and must work for his stepfather's shady car dealership to pick up a car that belongs to a Russian gangster. (imdb)
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    Meander
    A woman gets locked in series of strange tubes full of deadly traps. (imdb)
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    Black Lotus
    An ex-special forces operative wages a one-man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his friend’s daughter from the local crime syndicate.
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