Kari Heiskanen

Kari Heiskanen
Country: Finland
Total Credits at Criticker: 10 (Actor), 2 (Writer)
Biography submitted by addeh
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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)
Suden vuosi
Sari is a intelligent student in a university and Mikko is her teacher. At the same time Sari is lonely with her illness and Mikko fumbles through divorce. Slowly Sari and Mikko start to find peculiar consolation in a unconventional relationship. (IMDB Comments)
Calamari Union
An exodus to a better life in Eira (imdb)
Disko ja tuumasõda
A personal perspective on pop culture and totalitarian power from Jaak Kilmi, who grew up in Soviet Estonia in a town where he could get both communist propaganda TV from the USSR and western pop culture from Finland. 'It was possible for Emmanuelle and McGyver to defeat the Red Army and the teachers council,' says TV journalist Kiur Aarma, explaining the ideological battlefield of the time. (leedsfilm.com)
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.
Veljekset
Long lost son come back home for the birthday of father of three brothers. Old monsters wake up during meeting. (muutanet)
Beyond the Law
On her way home a woman is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular customer. She has been questioned in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, her brother and husband take matters into their own hands. (imdb)
Garbage Prince
A jetset prince meets his match beside a sleepy little town's garbage tip.
Jumalan hampaat
God's teeth are set in Lapland in the 1930s. Juha's confirmation class is canceled when a van arrives at the cemetery in the small remote village. To his dismay, he discovers that there is a dentist in the car. All the villagers of the village should get loose teeth as confirmation gifts and therefore their own real teeth must first be pulled out. Juha tries to escape after seeing his friends in pain, but he doesn't have time. Getting loose teeth seems inevitable until higher powers intervene.
Queen of Fucking Everything
A successful real estate agent wakes up one day to find out that her husband is gone, leaving her with millions in debt. In order to survive and maintain her lifestyle, Linda must become the queen of the criminal world. (imdb)