Vesa-Matti Loiri

Total Credits at Criticker: 27 (Actor), 1 (Director), 2 (Writer)
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Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the reward, through the desert without water and fighting against Indians. And just to find out that they have made a full circle back to origin. (imdb)
Two guys from Häme find out that they actually are from Karjala. At the same time Flybug bites one of the guys. That means he must learn to fly or he gonna die. Reborn Karjala-boys goes at the airport and fun begins. Soon they become acquainted with a robot that runs with booze, two scoundrels and beautiful Miss Universum. (imdb)
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)
Uuno Turhapuro (played by Vesa-Matti Loiri) is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain... (Wikipedia.org)
A 1992 Finnish comedy film written and directed by Ere Kokkonen. It is the sixteenth film in the Uuno Turhapuro series. Its name translates to "Uuno Turhapuro - the Mister President [sic] of the Republic of Finland".
Another comedy in the popular series of Uuno Turhapuro films.
Ville-Veikko Salminen is Nigolai Savtsenko, the leader of the group of criminals. Other members are Aake Kalliala as Petteri 'Pete' Lipsonen, Hannele Lauri as Mandi and Vesa-Matti Loiri as the crazy Hikka. They plan a robbery of the van full of money.Before that they do a series of smaller, and often very silly crimes. (imdb)
Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage. (imdb)
Uuno is called to serve the rest of his military service. His father-in-law, Director Tuura has been appointed as a defence minister but he hasn't got any interest to free Uuno from his service. Tuura orders Uuno to army immediately to get a rest from him for a while. In the army Uuno makes the officers go mad and soon he is been transferred as a horseman. (imdb)
Ake, Pera, Mäkinen and Leo are four middle-aged teddy boys. On a hot summer's day they are driving aimlessly on the open highways in their old convertible Cadillac when they become hungry. They try to order some pizza, but it turns out to be a difficult task... (ses.fi)
Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen (Pasanen) is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his toe. He is then cloned into a test-tube adult (a play on the phrase test-tube child) named Richard Ilyevitch Jyrä by his creator (father) Dr. Jyrä (Hämäläinen) (his name is intended to appeal to both American and Soviet sensibilities)... (Wikipedia)
Two toy manufacturers fight over market shares. One of them is Jim King whose accountant gives him some precarious ideas on how to avoid paying taxes. King is also after his rival's daughter - and her money. An array of gadgets almost steals the show: miniature submarines and helicopters, egg guns and boomerangs. The last 14 minutes are shot in colour, as seen by a gangster waking up to his first sober morning in years. (imdb)
Country boy Mikko lands a job as a night watchman at the TV studios in Helsinki. Ambitious Mikko writes some material of his own and becomes an instant TV success with his slapstick door tricks. But when he decides to raise his act onto a new level - window tricks! - his ratings plummet and the show is put off the air. Love and money fly out of the window too, but Mikko won't give up easily. (imdb)
Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju. (imdb)
A story about a Finnish poet in the early 20th century under the Russian regime. (imdb)
Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. (imdb)
Gunnar Huttunen arrives in North Finland after the war and buys a dilapidated mill. Despite being a decent and hard-working Finn he is also an outsider and an eccentric... He puts on performances at the mill for local children at which he specialises in imitating animals and making fun of the village notables. Everyone loves his brilliant impressions but these feelings soon sour when he starts to howl wildly at night... (Amazon)
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)
Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law.
Uuno enters a game show in which the contestants have to talk about their lives.
Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a new road. Tuura however is set on preventing this.
Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre (2018) - Short Film
Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre is a horror comedy about one woman's desperate struggle to survive a pack of men who just want to explain everything to her. (bufo.fi)
Follows several Finnish officers and soldiers during World War II, mainly in the Finnish headquarters. (imdb)
Uuno Turhapuro is a man who can convince anyone of anything by simply talking them into submission. Uuno learns to play the violin and becomes famous, but discovers that fame is both a gift and a curse.
The Iron Age (1982) - TV Mini-Series
Väinö, Ilmari and Lemminki, inspired by the tales in the Kalevala, go in search of a woman, eventually finding themselves at war with the Nordic people, and consider the great questions of life, their relationship to life, love and death. (imdb)