Acting

Risto Aaltonen

Born 1939-03-16 · Helsinki, Finland

Acting credits

The Green Widow poster
4.8

A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.

The Green Widow

1968

Legend of the Lake Bodom poster
4.3

The Legend of Bodom is a figment of the imagination, but it takes place in a land that once existed - between East and West, on the front lines of the Cold War. It is Pentecost morning in 1960. Three young people are found murdered on the shores of Lake Bodom.

Legend of the Lake Bodom

2006

I Hired Two Contract Cleaners poster
6.6

A ragtag team of cleaners tackles absurdly dangerous jobs - explosions, devastating water damage, and “impossible” stains - while dreaming of escaping poverty and enjoying holidays in the sun.

I Hired Two Contract Cleaners

1997

Poliisin poika poster
5.9

The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are joined by Trampas's pregnant girlfriend and Jusse, a refugee from Rwanda, as a driver.

Poliisin poika

1998

Kaikki pelissä poster
5.6

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.

Kaikki pelissä

1994

Tupla-Uuno poster
4.3

Uuno Turhapuro finds his doppelganger, Hugo, who happens to be a computer genius. Hugo helps Uuno save his father-in-law's business (and Uuno's inheritance) while Uuno helps Hugo win the heart of the love of his life.

Tupla-Uuno

1988

Kiljusen herrasväki poster
7.6

The Kiljunen family wins a holiday trip to Helsinki and the city will never be the same again.

Kiljusen herrasväki

1981

Puhallus poster
5.5

The company's regional manager has had enough of the fast pace of business and the frivolous patterns. He leaves the office sauna for a booze run at the behest of his boss. Drunk and driving his own car, even he doesn't have to. The situation becomes a thrilling chase that ends in a breathalyzer test and all-round relief as things fall into place. The booze run becomes a turning point in the life of the group's regional manager.

Puhallus

1992

On the Road to Emmaus poster
6.3

A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.

On the Road to Emmaus

2001

Crime and Punishment poster
6.9

Former student Rahikainen is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Rahikainen struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1983

V2: Dead Angel poster
5.6

The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.

V2: Dead Angel

2007

Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies poster
3.7

Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.

Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies

1998

Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle poster
5.9

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.

Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle

1986

Kissa ja Varjo poster
NR

Kissa is a former thief and Varjo is a police officer. One morning, a woman walks into the men's private detective agency, and they both fall in love with her. To avoid a fight, Varjo takes his boat and leaves. When the sunburnt man returns years later, the woman has been murdered and Kissa has disappeared.

Kissa ja Varjo

1993

Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni poster
4.8

Relations between Sweden and Finland come to near breaking point. When further negotiations led by President Mara fail, Sergeant Körmy interferes in the course of events.

Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni

1994

No artwork available
9.0

Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky’s famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen.

Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla

1967

Vaarallista vapautta poster
7.5

Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the help of her mother. Ruth the girlfriend of Sinikka's brother happens to witness the escape, which puts them all in danger.

Vaarallista vapautta

1962

Uuno Turhapuron veli poster
3.1

Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.

Uuno Turhapuron veli

1994

Uuno Turhapuro menettää muistinsa poster
4.7

Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.

Uuno Turhapuro menettää muistinsa

1982

Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers poster
4.7

A sequel to Soinio's film Kuutamosonaatti (Moonlight Sonata) of 1988. A rural family clings to life until the resourceful Sulo uses the salvific powers of sauna, moonshine, and tar to resurrect his injured brother Arvo, their deceased mother, and even buried revolutionaries. When Arvo drifts to Helsinki and falls into illicit moonshining and wild pursuits of a celebrity, Sulo and their revived mother set out to retrieve him from his urban excesses.

Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers

1991

Hei kliffaa hei poster
4.8

The film is based on characters from the Mänttien TV-asema sketches featured on the Spede Show.

Hei kliffaa hei

1985

Farewell, Mr. President poster
6.2

Asko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland, so he thinks that the best way to change them is to shoot the Finnish president.

Farewell, Mr. President

1987

Rock'n Roll Never Dies poster
5.3

The story of a simple and good-natured rocker in his late thirties who has a homemade electric guitar and loving parents.

Rock'n Roll Never Dies

2006

No artwork available
8.0

Based on Nikolai Erdman’s banned 1928 comedy play The Suicide, a socially critical grotesque about a man tired of life

Bis später - ich muss mich erschiessen

1984