Kalevi Kahra

Actor

October 4, 1927 (70 years)

† May 23, 1998

Johannes, Viipuri, Finland [now Sovetsky, Leningrad Oblast, Russia]

Biography

Kalevi Kahra was a Finnish actor with a career that spanned over four decades and included winning the Jussi Award for Best Actor in 1968 for his most highly-regarded performance as the character Adolf Halme in Täällä Pohjantähden alla (English: Here, Beneath the North Star). He served as Chairman of the Finnish Exhibition Union, the country's oldest and largest performing arts trade union, for over two decades, beginning in 1975. While most frequently appearing in comedic works, his biggest suc…

Filmography

3.8

Kotikatu

Maijan ystävä

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8.9

Metsolat

Arvo Iivarinpoika Vanhanen

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6.0

Plainlands

Teacher

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 perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own.

8.0

Kohtaamiset ja erot

Ronkaisen vaari

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10.0

Sista leken

färjkarlen

In this somber, psychological drama about the conflict between a man's innermost feelings and a society that puts these feelings in a strait jacket, the mood is ruminative and depressing throughout. Alone, Viktor (Sven Wolter) heads off for his usual summer vacation to some islands where he can ostensibly look for antiques for his wife's shop in Stockholm. His marriage is a failure or worse -- he raped his wife before he left home, and he is obsessed by erotic imaginings. Once on the islands, he makes friends with a little girl whose mother is mentally disturbed and is kept by her husband in a locked room. The islanders are as tight-lipped as Viktor, and any communication is stiff and artificial. Viktor's own alienation begins to slip as he takes surprising, violent action to turn around the imprisoned mother's life -- but it does not work, nothing seems to work -- and his last actions indicate that he may not be willing to simply give up.

10.0

Yhdeksän miehen saappaat

No description available

7.4

The Unknown Soldier

Recruit

It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.

N/A

Hunajan maku

Koistinen

No description available

5.8

The Age of Iron

Väinö

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 the television audience by way of humanizing the mythological characters whose thoughts and actions drive the narrative. The protagonists of Rauta-aika, Väinö, Ilmari and Lemminki, have been inspired by the tales in the Kalevala and go in search of a woman, eventually finding themselves at war with the Nordic people, and in the end pay dearly for their pursuits.

7.1

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 municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, serve in a Finnish platoon.

5.9

The Wrestler

Pesonen

An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.

4.6

Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet

Kenraali Gustafson

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

6.8

Here, Beneath the North Star

Adolf Halme

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.

4.8

Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava

Kenraali Gustafson

New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.

4.8

Hei kliffaa hei

Eki

The film is based on characters from the Mänttien TV-asema sketches featured on the Spede Show.

6.6

Akseli and Elina

A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.

4.8

Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät

Kenraali Gustafson

The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons launch equipment and codes to neutral Finland.

3.0

Naiset, jotka minulle annoit

(uncredited)

A triangular drama set in the world of theater.

8.0

Metsolat - Muistojen joulu

Arvo I. Vanhanen

Antti and Annikki have secretly decided to spend Christmas in Leppävaara. The family's entrepreneurial son Erkki has gone to Moscow with his yarn Jaakko Järvenheimo to sell tampers and ski packages to the Russians. The Metsola family (except for Erkki, Jaakko and Heikki's family) gather once again in Leppävaara to celebrate the Christmas of memories.

4.5

Pedon merkki

Vääpeli

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.