Åke Lindman

Acting

Åke Lindman

Born 1928-01-11 · Helsinki, Finland

Åke Leonard Lindman was a Finnish stage and screen actor, film and stage director. In his youth he was a football player, playing defence for the Finnish national team during the Olympics in Helsinki 1952. His breakthrough as an actor came with his role as the stubborn soldier Lehto in Edvin Laine's movie The Unknown Soldier from 1955.

Acting credits

Reds poster
6.9

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.

Reds

1981

The Chainsaw poster
NR

A story of how a team of lumberjacks react when the forest company wants to introduce the chainsaw.

The Chainsaw

1983

Telefon poster
6.6

Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.

Telefon

1977

Ingen morgondag poster
8.0

It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place. The Soviet occupation is strong, and on the Finnish side it is ordered to withdraw. But Captain Viktor Aaltonen does not listen to the order but wants to shorten a wounded companion's suffering. Aaltonen is taken to the Soviet prison camp, Vorkuta, where he will spend a decade.

Ingen morgondag

1957

The White Reindeer poster
6.6

A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.

The White Reindeer

1952

Moonwolf poster
5.5

Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned by the International Conference of Science, at Geneva, to study body function and survival in outer space. Holmes had discovered Wolf as a pup in the forest, only to lose him again in a flood, and is fearful of risking the dog's life again.

Moonwolf

1959

Yöjuna poster
5.0

A midnight freight train collides with a mysteriously abandoned truck at Rajamäki station, derailing and revealing that its cargo manifests were falsified. Investigation secretary Ari Nykänen uncovers a scheme smuggling explosives out of the country, with evidence pointing to collusion among senior VR executives.

Yöjuna

1996

Laukaus Kyproksessa poster
5.7

Onni Lintula, a journalist interested in ancient sights and a glacier has joined the Cypriot peacekeeping force. On the beach he falls in love with the local beauty Stalo. Despite the turbulent situation, strict moral rules and the obstruction of Stalo’s brother, Onni and Stalo find each other.

Laukaus Kyproksessa

1965

Paradise America poster
4.5

Finnish friends escape taxes to Florida.

Paradise America

1990

The Boy in the Tree poster
6.9

Göte is a young teen who seems to be at odds with his family and may not know his own mind that well either. Discontented and rebellious, Göte joins up with two mean-spirited game poachers in spite of the fact that he loves animals and nature. This contradiction between his own feelings and his need to rebel reaches a climax when a forest ranger starts to track down the young men in ever-tightening circles.

The Boy in the Tree

1961

Viettelysten tie poster
5.5

Antti and Ville arrive in Stockholm to seek adventure, to entertain, to meet girls and to live in a new youth culture. However, when they get off the ship, they get into the wrong track and come across prostitution and drug crime.

Viettelysten tie

1955

Lotat poster
8.0

Lotat is a Finnish Documentary about the Lotta Svärd, a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organization for women.

Lotat

1995

Jousiampuja poster
7.0

Drug dealer Aki is taken to hospital after a violent attack where he loses his merchandise and money. One of the paramedics, old Eino, befriends Aki later in the hospital and offers him a summer job after hearing that he has training in first aid. Eino even offers Aki a place to stay next to his ambulance garage. This provides Aki a perfect hiding place from his former employers who are after him. At the garage, Aki learns about life and the art of archery from peaceful Eino, and falls in love with Eino's daughter Lena who works at the ambulance switchboard. But no hiding place is good enough to last forever.

Jousiampuja

1982

Lain ulkopuolella poster
5.3

On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.

Lain ulkopuolella

1987

The Hunters poster
6.5

A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...

The Hunters

1996

Rakkaus kahleissa poster
9.0

A lock factory worker Pertti would like to marry his girlfriend Verna, but fears they don't have enough money. His brother Martti is a member of a youth gang that is planning a robbery with three other young men. When the boys have to flee at the time of the robbery, Pertti who secretly shadowed them sees an opportunity to solve his money problem.

Rakkaus kahleissa

1955

An Unknown Friend poster
4.7

The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off. A movie about insurance scams. Inspector Susikoski investigates.

An Unknown Friend

1978

Kovanaama poster
5.8

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.

Kovanaama

1954

The Unknown Soldier poster
7.2

It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.

The Unknown Soldier

1955

Make Like a Thief poster
4.0

Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.

Make Like a Thief

1964

The Lady in Black poster
5.8

The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.

The Lady in Black

1958

Villin Pohjolan salattu laakso poster
4.5

The Vorna brothers search for a hidden valley and its treasures.

Villin Pohjolan salattu laakso

1963

Mannen utan ansikte poster
8.0

A heavily indebted construction entrepreneur robs a bank in Jakomäki, Helsinki. He takes two officers and one customer hostage from the bank. In addition to himself, the desperate robber threatens to blow up the hostages if the police who left to follow them try to prevent the escape.

Mannen utan ansikte

1995

Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät poster
4.7

Inspector Timo Harjunpää works on harassment and extortion campaign case against successful computer expert.

Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät

1993

Behind the camera

Laukaus Kyproksessa poster
5.7

Onni Lintula, a journalist interested in ancient sights and a glacier has joined the Cypriot peacekeeping force. On the beach he falls in love with the local beauty Stalo. Despite the turbulent situation, strict moral rules and the obstruction of Stalo’s brother, Onni and Stalo find each other.

Laukaus Kyproksessa

1965

Kun tuomi kukkii poster
7.0

A farm trader falls in love with a rich girl with many admirers.

Kun tuomi kukkii

1962

Beyond the Front Line poster
6.3

A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced some of the most grueling battles against the Soviet Union.

Beyond the Front Line

2004

No artwork available
10.0

Drama documentary about the assissination of Nikolai Bobrikov, Russian governor general in Grand Duchy of Finland. In 16th June 1904 student Eugen Schauman shot Bobrikov at the staircase of Senate in Helsinki and after that himself.

Fem skott i senaten

1992

No artwork available
10.0

Drama documentary about the assissination of Nikolai Bobrikov, Russian governor general in Grand Duchy of Finland. In 16th June 1904 student Eugen Schauman shot Bobrikov at the staircase of Senate in Helsinki and after that himself.

Fem skott i senaten

1992

1944 The Final Defence poster
5.8

The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries. This film depicts the true events through five separate stories.

1944 The Final Defence

2007

Make Like a Thief poster
4.0

Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.

Make Like a Thief

1964

The Enchanted Road poster
8.0

Writer and psychiatrist Oscar Parland (1912-1997) narrates this nostalgic story about his early childhood memories and fantasies. Five-year-old Riki spends the summer of 1917 at his cosmopolitan family's summer house by the Gulf of Finland. Surrounded by other children and eccentric adults who speak Swedish, German and Russian, Riki also encounters some fantastic animal characters no one else is able to see.

The Enchanted Road

1986

Lapin kullan kimallus poster
6.5

In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north. The friends find gold at the first excavation site, which Kittilä's crown prince Konrad Planting and Edvard Manninen also start looking for.

Lapin kullan kimallus

1999

Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät poster
4.7

Inspector Timo Harjunpää works on harassment and extortion campaign case against successful computer expert.

Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät

1993

Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät poster
4.7

Inspector Timo Harjunpää works on harassment and extortion campaign case against successful computer expert.

Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät

1993

Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät poster
4.7

Inspector Timo Harjunpää works on harassment and extortion campaign case against successful computer expert.

Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät

1993

Kertokaa se hänelle… poster
9.0

Mauno, an orphan boy, moves from the countryside to Tampere to live with his foster parents, Iida and Eero, who support him in his music studies. As an adult, Mauno travels to Helsinki to search for Helena, a Karelian girl he rescued during the war, who is studying violin. At first, the girl does not recognize Mauno, but a joint concert changes the situation.

Kertokaa se hänelle…

1961

Grottan poster
NR

Some teenagers are on collision course with society and older generations.

Grottan

1970

Inför havets anlete poster
NR

A group of young university students on a sailing trip anchor their boat off the coast of a remote island. They meet the island's owner and his daughter. One of the young men decides to stay on the island for the whole summer and ends up uncovering its dark secret.

Inför havets anlete

1967

"Ei se mitään!" sanoi Eemeli poster
5.8

At Pösökylä's lodge, Taneli injures her leg in fur hunter Eemel's wolf irons, and Eemeli decides to take up the position of lodge lodge. During the leave of office, Eemeli gives lessons to the rich Petter who rules the village and arranges the engagement of his daughter Ilona to the blacksmith Ilmar. At the same time, the affairs of the coffee bar owner Bertta are also put in order and the prisoner escaper Luukas is caught.

"Ei se mitään!" sanoi Eemeli

1962

Jengi poster
6.3

Paavo and Eeva, two young people who have moved from the countryside to the city, meet a gang led by Kalle, who spend their time loitering and committing petty crimes. A fateful evening on a motorboat irrevocably changes the young people's lives.

Jengi

1963

Profeten i Pajala poster
NR

Lars Levi Laestadius (1800-1861), founded a Lutheran revival movement in the early 19th century in the north parts of Sweden. It had tremendous impact on local people and the followers increased rapidly. Puritanism and suffering went hand in hand on the narrow road to the kingdom of heaven.

Profeten i Pajala

1982

Sjuk eller skyldig? poster
NR

Drama about a family father who kills his wife.

Sjuk eller skyldig?

1969

Tre långa år poster
NR

A family father gets caught drunk driving.

Tre långa år

1969

Tre långa år poster
NR

A family father gets caught drunk driving.

Tre långa år

1969