
Acting
Ritva Hannele Lauri (born July 21, 1952 in Tampere, Finland) is a Finnish actress known for her roles in multiple comedy series. The artistic focus of her career is in stage acting. She was born Hannele Markkula to parents Arvi Markkula, a colonel and Eine Markkula, a shopkeeper. She married the actor Hannu Lauri in 1976 and had two sons, Sami (1977) and Tomi (1979). The couple divorced in 1994. She was briefly married to Teemu Rinne in the early 2000s. After having studied acting in the Theatre School, Hannele Lauri began her professional career in the Jyväskylä City Theatre. The period lasted from 1975 till 1977 after which she worked as a free-lancer till 1981. After a short period in theTurku City Theatre she started her ongoing contract with the Helsinki City Theatre in 1983. Her early stage roles include Ophelia. During the same period she was also cast in the movies directed by Risto Jarva and Jaakko Pakkasvirta. She got famous in Finland in the 1980s through her collaboration with mr Spede Pasanen. She appeared in popular television productions and comedy feature films created by mr Pasanen and the actor Vesa-Matti Loiri. She has been in the national limelight ever since. In the 1990s she starred in the television comedy series Hynttyyt yhteen ("Moving In Together") together with the comedian Eija Vilpas. In 2003 she portrayed the role of a woman going through her menopause in the comedy series Kuumia aaltoja ("Hot Waves"). In 2010s Hannele Lauri has made several supporting roles in Finnish movies and frequent television appearances along with her stage career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irina Björklund, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence.

The Finland of the future has gone mad. A bored young woman, Viola, gets a brilliant idea. She decides to fool the infamous Lone Rider and his sidekick Tonto. Viola makes a wanted poster of herself, and assumes the identity of a highwayman named Gonzales. Viola/Gonzales surrenders to a quirky bandit duo, who now believe they will be well rewarded for bringing this outlaw to authorities. As the pair is taking Gonzales to the gallows, they get lost in the desert. A day's journey turns into an adventure that tests the trio's physical resilience and mental maturity.

OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandbox as characters aged 4, 5 and 6. Pasanen even has his trademark beard, for Christ's sake!

Nikolai Savitsenko, aka Nig, runs Crimes for You Ltd, whose other employees are Hikka, Pete and Nig's little sister Mandi. While they are planning the heist of the century, robbing a bank's cash transport vehicle, the gang continues with their usual scams. They divert parking fines to the wrong account, one belonging to Inspector Koistinen, arrange a pre-arranged lottery line by bribing the authorities, and break into a political party's secret office to blow up the safe. Inspector Koistinen is in a tight spot. To make matters worse, he is assigned a new partner, Eevariita, who soon figures out that the same gang is behind all the scams.

Mr. X is a rock singer whom the girls Titi and Mari are infatuated with. Jukka-Pekka is writing a novel, and Pontus is researching the events leading up to Marilyn Monroe's death.

The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.

The story of Anna, who is searching for true love and meets Lauri on Midsummer's Eve.

Two elderly roommates at a hospice are randomly selected for a Gene-Therapy Trial that rejuvenates their bodies, making them younger. Given a second chance at love, lust and life, with the memories of their past life intact, they now must find their place in a new world that has left them behind.

A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist.
Documentary film by doctor Törhönen.
