Hannu-Pekka Björkman

Acting

Hannu-Pekka Björkman

Born 1969-02-11 · Kannonkoski, Finland

Hannu-Pekka Juhani Björkman (born 11 February 1969) is a Finnish actor. He has won two Jussi Awards for the Best Actor for films For the Living and the Dead (2005) and The Human Part (2018). In 2018, he won a Jussi Award for the Best Supporting Actor for film The Eternal Road (2017).

Acting credits

Niko and the Way to the Stars poster
5.8

A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel.

Niko and the Way to the Stars

2008

The Eternal Road poster
6.6

Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.

The Eternal Road

2017

The Other Side of Hope poster
7.0

A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.

The Other Side of Hope

2017

Raptures poster
5.5

Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms a sectarian movement, with directions straight from God, she has no choice but to join the increasingly explicit cult.

Raptures

2025

Christmas Story poster
7.2

Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids Nikolas to continue making presents for Christmas. Gradually, however, Nikolas wins Iisakki's trust. Together they begin to look after the Christmas traditional that Nikolas has begun. When the aged Iisakki has to leave Nikolas and move away, the tradition of Christmas presents is once again at risk. Thankfully, Nikolas comes up with a solution that brings children joy every Christmas, even continuing to today.

Christmas Story

2007

Void poster
6.3

Eero’s career as an author is spiraling down: he just can’t get started with his new novel. The ambitious actor Pihla is about to get her international break. Neither of them is willing to sacrifice their career even though their relationship is doing worse than ever. Void is a comedy-drama about the price of success and the agony of failure, and about situations where your partner just doesn’t get it.

Void

2018

95 poster
4.5

Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.

95

2017

FC Venus poster
5.4

Pete is a football enthusiast, who plays as a goalkeeper for FC HeMan, a team playing in the lowest possible league. His girlfriend, Anna, hates the whole sport. Pete and his teammates are planning to travel to watch the Football World Cup held in Germany. Anna is not excited about Pete's plan to leave her alone for the summer. Therefore Anna decides to present a challenge to Pete: She will form a team from the wives and girlfriends of the FC HeMan players, and then the women's team (FC Venus) would play against FC HeMan. If the women's team wins, the men will have to give up football, and if the men's team wins, the women will never complain about their hobby.

FC Venus

2005

Upswing poster
5.9

Katri and Janne want to take a trip which none of their friends have taken. They end up in Jakomäki.

Upswing

2003

After Us, the Flood poster
6.3

The brilliant young physicist Henrik and his fellow students develop a fusion reactor that produces endless clean energy, potentially saving Earth from environmental catastrophe. The reactor, however, is harnessed for commercial use, and the consequences for the planet and society are devastating. By the year 2064, the world has been ravaged by climate change. The UN succeeds in developing a form of time travel that can return a person's memories and personality to the moment of birth. Henrik is sent back to the past in an attempt to prevent the escalation of a catastrophe before it is too late. Something goes wrong and Henrik is forced to begin his mission from a very different starting point to the one he is used to.

After Us, the Flood

2024

Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness poster
5.0

A weekend father wants to bond with his teenage daughter by taking her with him to the carwash. They end up on a life-changing adventure in the supermarket, at the endless sanitary towel aisle. They get "help" from an older lady who shares intimate stories of her experience, some about menstruation, some on wildly different topics.

Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness

2015

Bad Boys: A True Story poster
5.7

The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash.

Bad Boys: A True Story

2003

The Woodcutter Story poster
5.5

An open-pit mine is unearthed in an idyllic town in Northern Finland. A strange chain of dreadful events affect the life of Pepe, a kind and optimistic woodcutter. But no matter what happens, Pepe seems to be fine with it, as if he holds a secret of existence that is hard to grasp.

The Woodcutter Story

2022

Aurora poster
5.7

A carefree commitment phobic woman falls for a man with a small daughter whilst helping him to find a wife before he dies.

Aurora

2019

Lovers & Leavers poster
4.8

This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?

Lovers & Leavers

2002

Invisible Hero poster
6.5

10-year-old Vinski feels like an outsider and invisible among his age-mates, and even with his single mother Krista. Vinski meets a mysterious pharmacist who gives him a bottle of magical powder. A powder, that allows you to become invisible for real and walk through walls. It is fantastic to have the powers of a super hero, but soon a group of crooks becomes interested in the secret of invisibility as well.

Invisible Hero

2021

Amidst poster
NR

Everything is just perfect, and then, boom!

Amidst

2024

Never Alone poster
6.5

1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.

Never Alone

2025

Land of Hope poster
6.9

Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her past behind her and starts leading the life of a pioneer, in the wild forests of northern Karelia, in a settlement farm. After a rosy start, the fate crushes Anni’s dreams and her love for Veikko is put to a test.

Land of Hope

2018

The Hijack That Went South poster
5.6

Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.

The Hijack That Went South

2013

The Missile poster
6.2

Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.

The Missile

2024

The House of Branching Love poster
5.6

The story recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family therapist, and his wife, Tuula, a successful business trainer.

The House of Branching Love

2009

Tarpeettomia ihmisiä poster
4.7

Kari and Tuula's family happiness is put to the test after Kari ends up on unemployment benefits.

Tarpeettomia ihmisiä

2005

Rumble poster
5.5

A summery, boozy road movie in which Leo aimlessly drives a group of aging teddy bears through the Finnish countryside in a red Cadillac. The film centers on the bromance of middle-aged men, booze, and pizza, which they decide to order to their moving car. Not even a Russian truck driver, Stakes' alcohol recommendations, or the police can stop this gang.

Rumble

2002

Behind the camera