Directing

Ilkka Vanne

Born 1946-03-31 · Lappeenranta, Finland

Acting credits

Dogs Don't Wear Pants poster
6.9

A grieving heart surgeon struggling with the loss of his wife drifts through an emotionally detached life while raising his teenage daughter. His chance encounter with a dominatrix awakens feelings he thought were gone, drawing him into a dark and unconventional world where pain and desire intertwine.

Dogs Don't Wear Pants

2019

Time of Roses poster
5.0

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.

Time of Roses

1969

Keikka poster
NR

A group theater ensemble film about a doctor who wants to help a group of refugees in Finland.

Keikka

2013

Toto poster
6.0

A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.

Toto

1982

VÄNÄ poster
7.0

A portrait of film actor Kari Väänänen. Väänänen talks openly about his work and himself. Väänänen's colleagues in "Tuntematon Sotilas" and "Lakeuden Kutsu" shed light on the actor's inner life.

VÄNÄ

2000

Rabobesto – Or How I Saved a Monster poster
3.0

On the verge of her marital life, a young woman makes a journey into the night to find out why she has lost her heartbeat and turned golden.

Rabobesto – Or How I Saved a Monster

2021

Lakeuden kutsu poster
5.8

Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi. Erkki misses his wife Kaisu, who back in the day stayed in Finland, and his child, but will the man be forgiven for years of absence?

Lakeuden kutsu

2000

Land of Love poster
4.9

A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationality and skin colour for the sake of love.

Land of Love

2003

Behind the camera