Lilga Kovanko

Acting

Lilga Kovanko

Born 1943-12-12 · Helsinki, Finland

Lilla Kovanko, born Olga Lilga Losinskij-Kovanko, is a Finnish stage and screen actress.

Acting credits

Bensaa suonissa poster
4.7

Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.

Bensaa suonissa

1970

Two Farewells poster
NR

Two Farewells deals with Alzheimer's disease with a respectful sense of humor.

Two Farewells

2020

Aidankaatajat poster
7.5

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter

Aidankaatajat

1982

Family Stories Untold poster
NR

Family Stories Untold is an animated documentary, in which seven different women’s stories about family are woven into one life-long piece. It begins with Iida, 9, who after her parents’ nasty divorce helps Mummy find a new man on Tinder, and ends with Lisbeth, who has been forced into a retirement home by her children. It’s a story about a life in which we don’t have the courage to voice our opinions, desires and expectations.

Family Stories Untold

2023

Aika hyvä ihmiseksi poster
5.3

The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.

Aika hyvä ihmiseksi

1977

Aurinkotuuli poster
4.0

Gravity researcher Erik Rankamaa dies in his prime in 1970. He is been deep frozen and gets defrosted in 1999, while people of his time are still alive.

Aurinkotuuli

1980

Near and Far Away poster
7.0

Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.

Near and Far Away

1976

For the Living and the Dead poster
6.5

An ordinary suburban family is shattered when their youngest son is killed in an accidental fire while locked inside the family's car on their yard. Mother Marja can't stop crying, father Jaakko can't cry at all but blames himself for the fire. Their remaining son Timo develops problems at school because of his constant worries about his parents' safety. In their grief, Marja and her sister Leena have to confront an old family secret, their little sister's accidental death for which Leena has quietly blamed herself through decades.

For the Living and the Dead

2005

Förlovningsfesten poster
NR

An engagement party plays host for music, alcohol, and plenty of relationship issues.

Förlovningsfesten

1968

Valkoinen kääpiö poster
4.0

The story of one man's struggle after he gets caught in a nuclear fallout and gets sick with leukemia.

Valkoinen kääpiö

1986

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

Kites Over Helsinki poster
4.8

Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.

Kites Over Helsinki

2001

Landet som icke är poster
10.0

A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a large weight from their shoulders.

Landet som icke är

1977

Virkistysalue poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Virkistysalue

1995

Little Sister poster
6.0

Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryman bound to be released from service. In the same time, she dates old school friend Eero who even goes AWOL to be near her. As the war continues, Katri has to make difficult decisions about her life.

Little Sister

1999

Frihetens murar poster
10.0

An Argentine actor comes to Sweden. He has pictured Sweden as a paradise. From his small rented room, he tries in vain to make contact with the Swedes.

Frihetens murar

1978

Aloittelija keisarillisessa Aleksanterin yliopistossa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aloittelija keisarillisessa Aleksanterin yliopistossa

1966

A Matter of Life and Death poster
7.0

"Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to Japan, declines the offer. Instead, she visits a maternity hospital in Sweden. She meets a doctor, who she has been in love for 15 years.

A Matter of Life and Death

1986

No artwork available
NR

Short film based on Tove Jansson's novel.

The Great Journey

2006

Playing Solo poster
4.7

Emma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think they're a perfect match. Emma discovers she is pregnant and ends up taking care of Joel's mother while he goes off on tour to conduct around the world. Pregnancy, a crazy mother-in-law, trust, and loyalty test the couple to make the right decisions.

Playing Solo

2007

Nattseilere poster
4.9

Outer Senja in 1877. A young girl is found apparently lifeless among flotsam and seaweed. The storm has washed her ashore. Miraculously, they revive her, but she has lost her memory, and no one knows who she is or where she comes from. They call her "Båremor" or "The Girl from the Sea." A fisherman and his wife take care of her, and it gradually becomes clear that she has extraordinary abilities. Among other things, she plays the organ beautifully. The girl feels like a stranger among the weather-beaten coastal people, and she is driven to track down her original home. During her escape, she hides in the boat of the wandering vagabond Borr, a notorious and wanted daredevil. On the run from the sheriff and the priest, they try to find their way back to her birthplace.

Nattseilere

1986

Hella W poster
4.7

The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky, but faced the harshness of a changing world as the Finnish, Soviet and British secret services focus on her life, family and work.

Hella W

2011

Vodkaa, komisario Palmu poster
5.6

A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.

Vodkaa, komisario Palmu

1969

Dirty Story poster
4.4

The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.

Dirty Story

1984