Regina Linnanheimo

Acting

Regina Linnanheimo

Born 1915-09-07 · Helsinki, Finland

Axa Regina Elisabeth Linnanheimo was a Finnish actress and screenwriter. She appeared in 35 feature films from 1931-1956. After she ended her film career she started to work as a translator for the Finnish Broadcasting Company using the name Regina Mörner.

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Documentary on film making.

Kamerat pyörivät

1935

Suotorpan tyttö poster
5.0

Helga Suotorppa has given birth to an illegitimate child while working as a maid. Inkeri, the kind-hearted mistress of the Lehtola house, offers the woman, who has a bad reputation in the village community, a place to work, which the desperate Helga gratefully accepts. She supports Mauria, who is in trouble after being abandoned by his rich and proud fiancée Hildur.

Suotorpan tyttö

1940

Cross of Love poster
5.8

The daughter of a lighthouse keeper runs away with a shipwrecked businessman to the city. But instead of her dreams, she ends up selling herself in the streets, until a painter finds her as an ideal model for his next painting.

Cross of Love

1946

Hornankoski poster
4.6

The brothers of Yli-Koskela farm fall for the same woman. Then Aarne believes he has killed a man. Artturi sees the case and saves the man from drowning to the rapids. He takes advantage of the situation and tells the woman, Lea, that his brother is a murderer.

Hornankoski

1949

Kun isä tahtoo… poster
4.0

Sock manufacturer August Lampaanpää finds himself in financial difficulties due to the upkeep of his girlfriend Kyllikki Mattler, appeasing his wife, and opposing his daughter Vappu's plans to marry car mechanic Manne Hietikko.

Kun isä tahtoo…

1935

Onni pyörii poster
5.5

Story about about a young man who was raised in an orphanage. Kauko goes to Helsinki to work as a store help. The living the big city is not so easy as Kauko expects and not so grand.

Onni pyörii

1942

Taistelu Heikkilän talosta poster
9.0

Anni, the daughter of the Heikkilä family, is forced by her father to give up her plans to marry her beloved farmhand, Matti Väliportti. Anni's life becomes a struggle when her father's choice of husband for her, Toivo Erkkilä, turns out to be a violent alcoholic.

Taistelu Heikkilän talosta

1936

Vain kaksi tuntia poster
7.0

In this story, which focuses on the events of a single evening, Kaarlo Kaarila, a dedicated chief physician, discovers that his wife Irja is having an affair with Dr. Alec von Wentell. The hospital's head nurse, Sister Magda, longs for Kaarila but suppresses her feelings. Irja's car accident sets off a series of dramatic events that force everyone to reevaluate their values in life.

Vain kaksi tuntia

1949

Kulkurin valssi poster
5.3

St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him.

Kulkurin valssi

1941

Linnaisten vihreä kamari poster
7.9

A nobleman in 1830's Finland has to contend with stuck-up relatives, his daughters' suitors, dark secrets from his family's past, mistaken identities and a haunted wing of his mansion.

Linnaisten vihreä kamari

1945

Yövartija vain… poster
4.0

Old Virtanen is a respected night watchman at a textile factory and a single father to his daughter Aino, who is about to graduate from high school. The heartless factory owner Kuusela fires Virtanen, who is forced to look for a new job. When Aino, who is in love with the manager's son Veikko, disappears after her graduation party, her father, who has fallen ill with worry, is overcome with despair.

Yövartija vain…

1940

Rikollinen nainen poster
5.3

Eeva Isokari flees her home from the jealousy of her husband, judge Lauri. The next day, a body is found on the railway tracks. Lauri thinks his wife is dead. The woman, who has lost her memory, has ended up in a prison run by her husband. Known in english as A Woman of Crime.

Rikollinen nainen

1952

Pikku pelimannista viulun kuninkaaksi poster
7.0

After ending up in an orphanage, Olavi sets out to find his mother. While playing the violin on the street, his exceptional talent catches the attention of a music school professor, who takes him under his wing.

Pikku pelimannista viulun kuninkaaksi

1949

Nuorena nukkunut poster
7.0

An adaptation of Frans Eemil Sillanpää's novel of the same title. Only a fragment of this film survives.

Nuorena nukkunut

1937

Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi poster
7.0

Wager is Count Mauritz Armborg, the young master of the estate. Linnanheimo plays Katariina (Catherine) the nanny to Mauritz's nieces and nephews. The two fall in love and decide to escape to Italy via Denmark where they have planned to get married. There are always complications because Mauritz's grandmother doesn't want him to marry below him - she has decided that Mauritz is to marry the Swedish beauty, Ingeborg Liliecrona.

Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi

1943

Restless Blood poster
5.2

Sylvi's child is run over by a bus, prompting her to drink poison. She goes blind in the process, causing her husband to lust after her much younger sister. After undergoing a dangerous operation to regain her sight, she hides her repaired vision behind dark eyeglasses, so she can spy on her sister and husband as they carry on their affair.

Restless Blood

1946

Helmikuun manifesti poster
5.5

February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.

Helmikuun manifesti

1939

Lapseni on minun… poster
10.0

Elsa lives in a childless marriage. But she longs for a baby. She is drawn to a man that could be the father of her long awaited child.

Lapseni on minun…

1940

Herra ja ylhäisyys poster
5.0

Lieutenant General T.J.A. Heikkilä travels to the Republic of Sierranueva together with his military servant Tlaca and Captain Silvio. The trio uncovers political machinations and helps the righteous marquis don Ramiro. Women can't resist the handsome Heikkilä, who takes the heart of even the beautiful Camilla.

Herra ja ylhäisyys

1944

Kuollut mies vihastuu poster
7.0

Rainer Sarmo and Mikko Vehmer stumble upon a Russian counterfeit league. They help Leila Varta, who tries to save her brother Raimo from the evil Josef Hakim. The beautiful pianist Maria Lichter is puzzled by the events.

Kuollut mies vihastuu

1944

Niin se on, poijaat! poster
8.0

Corporal Möttönen is an incomparable humorist whose easygoing banter brings a pleasant atmosphere to the unit. The smooth-talking man from Savo is assigned to the entertainment troops at the front.

Niin se on, poijaat!

1942

Sininen varjo poster
9.0

The director's daughter, Raila Tuulo, is the only one who has seen the burglar terrorizing the city, the mysterious "Blue Overalls," and recognizes him as Joel Ormak. Under Raila's influence, Joel gives up his wild lifestyle and his former love interest, the vampish Iris Vild. But a murder takes place at a nightclub, and the victim's last words are Joel's name. Approximately 16 minutes of footage and excerpts from the film have been preserved.

Sininen varjo

1933

Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina poster
4.1

At the eve of Crimean war orphaned Regina lives with her grandmother in a small cabin near a lavish villa. As the summer approaches there is great anticipation of a big ball to be held.

Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina

1941

VMV 6 poster
5.2

The Finnish coast guard battles the bootleggers who smuggle booze across the Gulf of Finland during the prohibition law.

VMV 6

1936

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