
Acting
Tom Wentzel
Born 1947-09-09 · Helsinki, Finland
Tom Wentzel is a Finnish actor and singer who also regularly performs in live theater productions at the Helsinki City Theater. He has appeared in the television series Rauta-aika and Hovimäki as well as several films, most notably as the leading man of the Hungarian-Finnish binational production of Tullivapaa avioliitto (English: 'Duty Free Marriage').
Acting credits
10.0Little girl finds a teddy bear from the seashore. Reeta and Teddy Uppo form a deep friendship with each other, but what happens when Uppo meets an old hermit?
Uppo-Nalle
1991
6.1It’s Christmas time and the family has gathered. Everything goes on as it did the previous Christmases, with grandpa drinking too much and grandma trying to keep everyone in the mood. After the Christmas holidays, everyone returns to their own homes until it's time to gather again, this time for a funeral.
Family Time
2023
4.3High-class prostitute Bella works for hotel manager TT with Sara, Lulu and Cindy. However, Bella misses the ordinary life and love of her youth Timo, who is a hockey player on the team owned by TT.
Porttikielto taivaaseen
1990
5.2In a small village in Eastern Finland in 1918, Patrick, who has taken care of the chaplain, teacher and physician, has been filled with loneliness and brutal spirit of work for five years.
Lunastus
1997
6.3A 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
NRA documentary about Göran Schildt and his relationship with the Mediterranean.
A Dream of the Mediterranean
1991
6.4Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman, who claims that she is being kept there by force. Penttilä starts to investigate the case and he ends up in to a little town named Järvensuu. There he drifts in to a conflict with the local mob.
Tie naisen sydämeen
1996
7.0Lumberjacking is a second part of saga about young author, Kalle Päätalo. It's a story about growing up and becoming a storyteller in hard times when their father was in the forced labour camp. He was a lunatic.
Nuoruuteni savotat
1988
4.5Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
Pedon merkki
1981
5.0Dini goes to Sweden illegally and abandons his fiancée, Mari. After several months a young Finnish businessman called Pekka arrives in Budapest, carrying a letter and package from Dini. The sympathetic Pekka is judged by the friends of Mari to be suitable for the task of a nominal marriage, by which Mari could get out legally to Dini.
Duty Free Marriage
1980
NRAn engagement party plays host for music, alcohol, and plenty of relationship issues.
Förlovningsfesten
1968
8.0A Finnish family gathers together to spend time at grandparents’. When the night goes on, we realize that this is how things always go. With a warm and subtly humorous gaze, the film looks closely at the unspoken structures and norms inside a family.
Family Time
2018
4.8Epic 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
5.6Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz and later muse, poetess L. Onerva. His friends include equally central figures of the Finnish cultural scene in the early 1900s, such as painters Halonen and Gallén-Kallela, and composer Sibelius.
Poet and Muse
1978
4.4Young cleaning woman Kukka-Maaria comes to town and gets an awesome rental apartment. In exchange of that, however, her landlord gradually subjects her to be his and his friends' sexual partner.
Punainen huone
1991
5.0The Finnish psychiatrist, politician, poet and musician Claes Andersson analyzes himself. At the same time, we dive into the history of Finland and Helsinki from the 1930s to modern times.
Claes Andersson – Vapaa tahto
2022
5.1A present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and tortures him with morbid thoughts and an urge to kill. When he finally commits a murder there is a witness, who is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse...
Deadly Drift
1999
5.7A newly graduated nurse Tuulikki starts a job in a closed ward of a psychiatric hospital. Her innocence is being challenged by both her colleagues and patients. A new patient Katariina has a fire burning deep inside of her.
Palava enkeli
1984
NRGoodbye Gibraltar, directed by Ulrika Bengst, is a film about reconciliation, encountering different lifestyles and dreams.
Goodbye Gibraltar
1993