Kari HeiskanenFilmography

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Three Wise Men

Synopsis: Three old friends approaching middle age ponder the inability to connect to the ones they love most, ultimately deciding to drown their sorrows together on Christmas Eve following a chance meeting in a local hospital. Expectant father Matti is completely paralyzed by how own self-doubt. Likewise Read More

2008
Ambush

Actors: Peter Franzen, Irina Björklund, Kari Heiskanen, Taisto Reimaluoto, Kari Väänänen

Synopsis: The brutal effect of war on ordinary people is the subtext of this World War II drama from Finland. Perkola (Peter Franzen) is the leader of a small Finnish platoon sent on a mission into Russian territory in 1942. Perkola has been terribly upset since he was told that his fiancée, a nurse, was Read More

1999
Lunastus

Actors: Kari Heiskanen, Jussi Puhakka, Jussi Lehtonen

Synopsis: This Finnish period drama -- set during the 1918 civil war after Finland's independence from Russia -- concerns a village Lutheran priest with a small parish and self-doubts, as revealed in his correspondence to his brother, a White Army officer. At a time when opposing factions approach the Read More

1998
Harjunpaa and the Persecutors

Actors: Kari Heiskanen, Riitta Havukainen, Mats Langbacka, Sari Havas, Antti Virmavirta

Synopsis: Most of this Finnish thriller was filmed at night. It follows the trials of a young couple who are harassed by a pair of creeps who play nasty pranks such as ordering a huge load of coal on the phone and having it dumped in the couple's beloved rose garden. Officer Harjunpaa and his partner, a Read More

1994
Muutolinnun Aika

Actors: Antti Litja, Tarja Markus, Kari Heiskanen

Synopsis: Katya is seventeen. A year ago, her parents went through a very messy divorce, and she hasn't seen her father since then. Now she is determined to learn more about him and to rebuild her relationship with him. To that end, she has moved in with him. She's got her work cut out for her: he's an Read More

1991
Lain ulkopuolella

Actors: Taneli Makela, Kari Heiskanen, Antti Litja

Synopsis: In this dark Finnish thriller, a the husband and brother of a young woman who has been raped attempt to expose the culprit. However, there are no witnesses, and since the rapist is a prominent, respectable citizen, the authorities react with disbelief. Unable to obtain justice, the two men decide Read More

1989
Anni tahtoo aidin

Actors: Kirsi Tykkylainen, Kari Heiskanen, Susanna Haavisto, Outi Mäenpää, Ritva Valkama

Synopsis: Little Anni (Kirsikka Tykkylaainen) has lost her mother. Now she and her father Timppa (Kari Heiskinen) live alone. This wouldn't be so bad, but her eminently loveable dad is such a lousy cook, and also it seems a shame that he should have to be alone. So Anni makes it her business to find a mate Read More

1989
Ala itke, Iines

Actors: Eija Vilpas, Kari Väänänen, Sari Mallinen, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Vesa Vierikko

Synopsis: In this chaotic jumble of a story, an exemplary product of a school of anarchic filmmaking, a crew of people living on the fringes of Finnish society inhabit a variety of transient abodes, from the attic of a building to a large outbuilding made to hold garbage. Some of the residents earn their Read More

1987
Valkoinen Kaapio

Actors: Kari Heiskanen, Lilga Kovanko, Jaana Raski, Jaakko Pakkasvirta, Esko Salminen

Synopsis: A highly symbolic Finnish drama, this mute story is about a young Finn engineer who is caught near a nuclear explosion in the Arctic circle and tries to escape the subsequent radiation by ducking into a mine shaft. The "white dwarf" of the title is scientific jargon for a lethal dose of radiation. Read More

1986
Angelan Sota

Actors: Mathieu Carrière, Jörn Donner, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in Lapland who begins a torrid affair with Thomas Schmidt (Mathieu Carriere), a wounded German army captain. Their love for each other is verboten in Finland, where the Germans occupy northern Lapland until the Read More

1984
Jousiampuja

1982