Tea Ista

Acting

Tea Ista

Born 1932-12-12 · Evijärvi, Finland

Acting credits

Commando Assault poster
6.1

Lieutenant Takala meets his fellow partisans of 20th division many year after the war. With flashbacks we see the events of summer 1944.

Commando Assault

1963

Lacrimosa poster
5.0

A story about love. A famous singer cannot let go of the memory of her late husband. She befriends a man her own age, and there should be nothing standing in the way of their happiness.

Lacrimosa

2008

Hyväntekijä poster
3.0

An adult love story – as wistful as a Finnish tango.

Hyväntekijä

2014

Viisi tytärtäni poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viisi tytärtäni

1997

The Year of the Wolf poster
5.8

Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works."

The Year of the Wolf

2007

Syksyllä kaikki on toisin poster
5.7

A small Finnish town bank manager gets caught in the midst of local politics, with dire effects on his family and himself.

Syksyllä kaikki on toisin

1978

Mies tältä tähdeltä poster
6.0

Office clerk Eero Koskinen prefers to spend his nights drinking and reminiscing the war with his friends, instead of taking care of his wife and two children. A two-week drinking spree gets him fired, and a new job is not easy to find because of his reputation. He goes to a rehab centre in the countryside for a couple of weeks, but with no permanent result. Meanwhile, his wife has to get a job and is employed by her old sweetheart, now a recently divorced successful businessman.

Mies tältä tähdeltä

1958

Adventure Starts Here poster
7.0

Fashion Designer Anne must decide between Toivo, an architect ten years her senior, and French businessman, Jacques, with whom she's been living for three years.

Adventure Starts Here

1965

Haluan rakastaa Peter poster
4.8

A middle aged widower Sanna has emigrated to Sweden after her husband's death . She lives in Linköping with her two children and works in the local library. During one of the lectures held for the immigrants in the library, she meets doctor Peter Mackus and starts exchange letters. Quite soon they fall in love.

Haluan rakastaa Peter

1972

Young Love poster
5.5

Story of first love affair during summer school holidays, in a pastoral setting.

Young Love

1955

Kulkurin tyttö poster
5.7

Baron Metter is threatening to evict a crofter family from their home. Lauri Vaara a student passing by, falls in love with Marja the family's daughter, and promises to help save their home. Baroness Olivia Metter falls for the young student and helps him with the rescue plan.

Kulkurin tyttö

1952

Pikku Pietarin piha poster
7.0

A little orphan boy is the focus of attention, as well as his stepmother whose special qualities engender a certain mystery around her person – and hint at magical powers.

Pikku Pietarin piha

1961

Kymmenen riivinrautaa poster
4.3

Rauno Rämekorpi is celebrating his 60th birthday. He has been awarded the title of Industrial Counsellor, and the company's management has commissioned a biography of him. After the celebrations, the industrial counsellor orders a taxi to take the flowers brought by the guests to the landfill. However, taxi driver Seppo Sorjonen convinces Rämekorpi to change his mind – the flowers are taken to a few female friends instead.

Kymmenen riivinrautaa

2002

Iloinen Linnanmäki poster
4.0

Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.

Iloinen Linnanmäki

1960