Antti Litja

Actor

February 21, 1938 (84 years)

† July 13, 2022

Antrea, Finland [now Kamennogorsk, Russia]

Biography

Antti Vilho Olavi Litja (21 February 1938 – 13 July 2022) was a Finnish actor. He made over 60 film and television appearances since 1959. A prominent figure in Finnish film in the 1970s and 1980s, since the mid-1990s he mostly appeared on television. Litja is probably the best known for his roles in the films The Year of the Hare (1977) and The Grump (2014).

Filmography

8.0

Kaverille ei jätetä

Ylivääpeli Harju

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8.0

Sydänjää

Pentti Santamaa

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9.3

Team Ahma

Harry Järvi

Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service.

6.5

Pakanamaan kartta

Poliisi

The story of Helena Koskinen, a camera assistant, and Tapani Helander, a studio director, who met in England while on a filming trip. The series begins when Helena suffers a serious brain injury in an accident at work, leading to memory loss, and actor Risto Kareinen sells a wristwatch containing a listening device to the Russian manager of an Estonian rock band for 100 marks.

3.7

Luonnollinen kuolema

Antero Aavamaa

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5.7

Päin perhettä

Pekka Syrjäntaka

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10.0

Meidän jengi

Pentti Kaskeala

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8.0

Ou Nou

Yrjö Härmälä

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6.6

The Grump

Grump

A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law.

6.8

The Snow Queen

Rosvoveli

A Finnish live action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The tale centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Kerttu.

6.8

Gourmet Club

Herman Castrén

"Gourmet Club" follows a doctor who belongs to a small but exclusive gourmet club, in which the five upper-class members take turns providing the main course, wagering as to who can identify a mystery exotic ingredient. Things get interesting when the doctor's gambling problem catches up with him. Desperate, he comes up with the idea to use a truly shocking mystery ingredient to fool his colleagues, but he gets more than he bargained for when the mystery meal has a surprising and powerful effect on the members.

6.3

Lentsu

Rinteelän Aleksi

Influenza virus wreaks havoc in Finnish common people. Eventually, the virus ends up on motorist Toivo Kesseli and puts his life on the verge of destruction.

4.8

Twisted Roots

Isoisä

In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.

6.0

Presidentin mies

Tasavallan Presidentti

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6.3

Macbeth

Dunkku

A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

7.3

The Year of the Hare

Kaarlo Vatanen

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life

5.0

Rakkauselokuva

Kalevi Karlsson

The Torniainen are a couple consisting of Raija, a flight attendant, and Hanski, a civil engineer. They have long wanted to have a child. Tests show that Hanski is infertile, and the doctor offers little hope.

7.3

Ihmemies

Olli Ruusunen

Olli Ruusunen attended a special training course in the US, where his brain capacity has been developed to the extreme.

7.0

Cha Cha Cha

Drunkard #1

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 only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!

5.2

Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus

Jalmari Roimala

Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their lives have changed considerably. Anna is a war widow; Martti a writer, is married, and has five children.