Peter FranzenFilmography

Filmography

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Ralliraita

Actors: Olavi Uusivirta, Heiki Silvennoinen, Peter Franzen, Laura Birn, Tom Petäjä, Kai Hyttinen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Ismo Apell

Synopsis: This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of {%Seppo 'Sladi' Pesonen), an ex-top-tiered race car driver now reduced to instructing students at a driving school. To relieve the monotony of this undesired career, Pesonen builds "Team Susan," a road rally Read More

2/27/09
Hellsinki

Actors: Samuli Edelmann, Peter Franzen, Pihla Viitala, Kari Hietalahti, Juha Veijonen, Jasper Paakkonen, Pekka Valkeejarvi

Synopsis: Though not commonly recognized in the west, Helsinki, Finland for years claimed one of the most violent and lethal urban undergrounds of any European metropolis. Its checkered criminal history inspired a jarring nonfiction tome, Rööperi - The Years of Crime 1955 - 2005 by Harri Nykänen and Tom Read More

1/9/09
The Matriarch

Actors: Sanna-Kaisa Palo, Peter Franzen, Samuli Vauramo, Jenni Banerjee, Elina Knihtila

Synopsis: One headstrong woman tries to keep her oddball family from heading off the rails in this bizarre comedy. Martta (Sanna-Kaisa Palo) and Otto (Heikki Kinnunen) are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendents of the Romanovs and wander from town to town seeking work, accompanied Read More

2008
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
Red Is the Color Of

Actors: Irina Björklund, Peter Franzen, Eliza Pryor Nagel, Carey DiPietro, Terry Tocantins

Synopsis: Photographer Anne Norda makes her feature directorial debut with this sexually charged drama concerning a pair of married artists who are forced to confront their unfulfilled desires after a sexually ambiguous nude model prompts a sexual and spiritual awakening. The toast of the art world due to Read More

2007
Baba's Cars

Actors: Andreas Wilson, Sara Sommerfeld, Hassan Brijany, Gyorgi Staykov, Goran Forsmark

Synopsis: Compared frequently in the American press to the Coen Brothers comedy Fargo (given its similar blend of brutal crime and comedy-of-errors shenanigans), the Scandinavian picture Baba's Cars opens on the lingering dissatisfaction that ditzy blonde Anso (Laura Malmivaara) projects toward her beau Read More

2006
Matti: Hell is for Heroes

Actors: Jasper Paakkonen, Peter Franzen, Elina Hietala, Elina Knihtila, Juha Veijonen

Synopsis: Director Aleksi Makela collaborates with screenwriter Marko Leino for this fast and loose look at the life of volatile gold medal skier Matti Nykanen (Jasper Paakkonen). A kindhearted athlete at heart, Finnish skier Nykanen has one Achilles Heel: whenever he's had his fill of liquor and his Read More

2005
Dog Nail Clipper

Actors: Peter Franzen, Ahti Kuoppala, Taisto Reimaluoto, Ville Virtanen, Leo Lastumaki

2003
Nimed Marmortahvlil

Actors: Priit Voigemast, Alo Korve, Hele Kore, Anti Reinthal

Synopsis: Estonian stage director Elmo Nüganen makes his feature filmmaking debut with the war drama Nimed Marmortahvlil (Names in Marble), based on the novel by Albert Kivikas. Set in 1918, the film involves a group of nationalist supporters after the Soviet invasion of Estonia. A romantic subplot involves Read More

2003
Pahat Polat

Actors: Jasper Paakkonen, Lauri Nurkse, Peter Franzen, Niko Saarela, Vesa-Matti Loiri

Synopsis: Finnish filmmaker Aleksi Makela directs the Dogme-influenced downbeat drama Bad Boys - A True Story, inspired by a group of actual brothers who turn to a life of crime. Eero (Jasper Paakkonen), Ilkka (Lauri Nurkse), Otto (Peter Franzen), and Matti (Niko Saarela) are four brothers who are Read More

2003
Lovers & Leavers

Actors: Minna Haapkyla, Peter Franzen, Laura Malmivaara

Synopsis: A hopeless romantic, Iiris Vaara's (Minna Haapkyla) perceptions of romance stem from the hours of movie viewing she engages in when not working in her Helsinki bookstore. With such an idealized view of love, her experiences with real romantic relationships have been varied and disappointing Read More

2002
Badding

Actors: Janne Reinikainen, Peter Franzen, Puntii Valtonen, Ilkka Koivula

Synopsis: This drama was based on the true story of the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the most influential figures in Finnish pop music. Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki (Janne Reinikainen) was one of Finland's best-known rock singers during the 1970s, but with the dawn of the 1980s, he's developed a severe Read More

2001
Rolli

Actors: Allu Tuppurainen, Maria Järvenhelmi, Peter Franzen, Kari Hietalahti, Jussi Lampi

2001
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
Kuningasjatka

Actors: Pertti Koivula, Simo Kontio, Esko Nikkari, Anu Palevaara, Peter Franzen

Synopsis: For this Finnish drama, writer-director Markkku Polonen (The Last Wedding) recaptured the mood and charm identified with Scandinavian films of the '50s. Widower Tenho (Pertti Koivula) takes his ten-year-old son Topi (Simo Kontio) to eastern Finland while he tackles grueling and exhausting hard Read More

1998
Tie Naisen Sydameen

Synopsis: Penti is a poorly groomed newspaper reporter who gets abusive when drunk. On one such occasion, his fed-up wife commits him to a mental institution. It takes him a while to prove his sanity to the skeptical staff and win his release, but before he does, he encounters Tutteli, a mysterious and Read More

1997