Heikki Kujanpää

Acting

Heikki Kujanpää

Born 1961-09-01 · Pielisjärvi, Finland

Acting credits

Our Father… poster
5.0

Juhani Haavisto returns to his childhood home from the seas and is confronted by his wheelchair-bound, demented father Eino and the traumas of sexual abuse and violence he experienced as a child.

Our Father…

1993

A Summer by the River poster
6.8

Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.

A Summer by the River

1998

Sotapoika poster
NR

During the Continuation War, mother Kaarina and son Erkki live at home in a small town while father has been sent to the front. One day the family's life is turned upside down when the father returns home as a deserter from the front .

Sotapoika

1993

Yösydän poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yösydän

1993

Routasydän poster
6.8

In this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the city to his summer cottage with his children and a lady next door, a divorced university teacher is forced to pick up a young delirious woman from the roadside. He soon falls in love with her, only to find out she is a sought-after deserter from a violent guerilla army.

Routasydän

1993

Jäänmurtaja poster
7.0

14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes Dad move away and replaces him with Mutanen, the worst player in the local hockey team. Petri finds out a way to get the best out of Mutanen on ice: before a game, he has to be made really angry so his adrenaline gets flowing.

Jäänmurtaja

1997

Viisasten kivi poster
NR

A young woman has to attend a self-improvement camp

Viisasten kivi

1996

Lovers & Leavers poster
4.8

This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?

Lovers & Leavers

2002

Where Once We Walked poster
4.2

The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.

Where Once We Walked

2011

No artwork available
6.4

The mechanic Jack tries to get rid of his criminal background.

Highway Society

2000

Rölli – hirmuisia kertomuksia poster
7.1

Trollforest is in grave danger, so Rölli the Troll must unite with a Forest Fairy to save their home.

Rölli – hirmuisia kertomuksia

1991

The Prodigal Son poster
5.5

Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.

The Prodigal Son

1992

Kuka lohduttaisi Viiviä? poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kuka lohduttaisi Viiviä?

2001

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

Falling Angels poster
5.8

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.

Falling Angels

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Raskas työ, kepeä uni

1996

Ken tulta pyytää poster
8.0

Firefighter Jesse heroically rescues ten children from a devastating fire. But it soon becomes clear that Jesse is not a hero after all, and a thrilling adventure begins, the outcome of which is difficult to predict.

Ken tulta pyytää

2001

Fish River Anthology poster
7.0

The supermarket is nearing its closing time, and the last customers are queuing for their turn at the fish counter. The agonizing wait offers a chance for existential reflection and a little song.

Fish River Anthology

2024

Behind the camera

Yösydän poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yösydän

1993

Yösydän poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yösydän

1993

No artwork available
NR

In 1975, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen became an internationally recognized expert on bridging the East with the West by hosting the “Conference of Security and Cooperation of Europe”. His dreams of retirement and the penwork of his newfound journalist friend Maarit Tyrkkö on his memoirs come to an abrupt halt when the Soviet Union attacks Afghanistan, and Brezhnev and Carter start waving nuclear warheads at each other. With his time running out, Urho has to find his will of iron again, and muster up the strength to venture into the Soviet Union to save humanity from total destruction.

Urho – Between the Hammer and the Sickle

No artwork available
4.5

The many problems of marriage and relationships may sometimes condense into something as trivial an affair as parking a car

Pocket Parking

2013

No artwork available
4.5

The many problems of marriage and relationships may sometimes condense into something as trivial an affair as parking a car

Pocket Parking

2013

Jäänmurtaja poster
7.0

14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes Dad move away and replaces him with Mutanen, the worst player in the local hockey team. Petri finds out a way to get the best out of Mutanen on ice: before a game, he has to be made really angry so his adrenaline gets flowing.

Jäänmurtaja

1997

Jäänmurtaja poster
7.0

14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes Dad move away and replaces him with Mutanen, the worst player in the local hockey team. Petri finds out a way to get the best out of Mutanen on ice: before a game, he has to be made really angry so his adrenaline gets flowing.

Jäänmurtaja

1997

Joulukuusivarkaat poster
7.2

The story of Veikko, whose values are thrown into crisis in a profit-driven society. However, Veikko does not give up. His sense of justice is put to the test, and his integrity is weighed in the balance.

Joulukuusivarkaat

2009

Löylyn Veljet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Löylyn Veljet

2000

Laugh or Die poster
6.1

Parikka, the actor once called the Funniest Man in Finland, and his troupe are about to be executed for the atrocities committed during the Civil War in Finland. Jaeger Lieutenant Nyborg, an admirer of Parikka, suspects a definite miscarriage of justice. He wants to save the actors. The forthcoming visit of the German General von der Goltz to the prison island provides him with a suitable opportunity. Nyborg suggests that the actors prepare a comical performance for the visitor and not be shot. Instead, they will be given a new trial. Preparing a comedy in the horrible circumstances, in the midst of hunger and death, seems quite an overwhelming task. Only a handful of real actors are still alive, the rest of the troupe consists of stagehands. Parikka has to use all his inventive skills to be able to produce something funny.

Laugh or Die

2018

Laugh or Die poster
6.1

Parikka, the actor once called the Funniest Man in Finland, and his troupe are about to be executed for the atrocities committed during the Civil War in Finland. Jaeger Lieutenant Nyborg, an admirer of Parikka, suspects a definite miscarriage of justice. He wants to save the actors. The forthcoming visit of the German General von der Goltz to the prison island provides him with a suitable opportunity. Nyborg suggests that the actors prepare a comical performance for the visitor and not be shot. Instead, they will be given a new trial. Preparing a comedy in the horrible circumstances, in the midst of hunger and death, seems quite an overwhelming task. Only a handful of real actors are still alive, the rest of the troupe consists of stagehands. Parikka has to use all his inventive skills to be able to produce something funny.

Laugh or Die

2018

Falling Angels poster
5.8

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.

Falling Angels

2008

Falling Angels poster
5.8

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.

Falling Angels

2008

Pieni pyhiinvaellus poster
7.5

In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon abandons the baby. The next day the infant is brought to the hospital where Ritva works. Troubled with shame, Ritva finds consolation from a dying priest.

Pieni pyhiinvaellus

2000