Markku Maalismaa

Acting

Markku Maalismaa

Born

1965-04-06 (61)

Place of birth

Yli-Ii, Finland

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

The Mine poster
6.8

A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.

The Mine

2016

Linnan juhlat poster
7.5

In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only plane, but the Laplander Jallu agrees to drive him 1200 km (745 miles) south.

Linnan juhlat

2017

Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men poster
5.5

The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation.

Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men

2012

Maria's Paradise poster
5.4

A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standing up against Maria, the woman who had saved her.

Maria's Paradise

2019

Flowers of Evil poster
5.3

Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and public buildings, confronting the security guards and the riot police. The narrative goes backwards, towards the riots which mark the end of our movie. As the story begins, the unrest is still bubbling under, ready to explode any time. Vandalism and robbery are not uncommon in the suburbs; neither is violence towards the police and the security guards. Frustration, alienation, isolation and poverty corrode the asphalt surface of the multicultured society, otherwise relatively harmonious.

Flowers of Evil

2016

August poster
4.5

Summer begins, Aku graduates high school and faces a great emptiness. As his girlfriend, parents and friends all leave the city, it looks to be the dullest summer ever. Everything changes at Midsummer when Aku meets Juli, a beautiful, strange and wild girl. Juli asks Aku for a ride to eastern Finland. Aku agrees – without any idea what he's getting himself into.

August

2011

2000s · 6 titles

Raid poster
6.1

Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a larceny. He is also contacted by inspector Jansson, who he knows from the past regarding the murder of a protestor. Raid begins his investigation and soon finds that there's more to the cases than meets the eye.

Raid

2003

No artwork available
NR

A TV movie by Mikko Mattila.

Linnut

2006

Nainen kedolla poster
6.0

Museum conservator Laura Malkaluoto is a top professional in her field. She studies art forgeries at a large museum. One morning, Sami Pirilä, a Finnish-born museum director living in Ecuador, is impressed by Laura's professional skills; Laura's ability to distinguish between genuine and fake, truth and falsehood. Soon Laura realizes that there is something suspicious about Sami. He may not be who he claims to be. The Woman in the Field is a dramatic thriller about human deception and forgery. It takes place in 21st-century Finland, in elegant museums and decaying rural areas. A love story full of twists and turns about truth and lies, suspicion and certainty, authenticity and falseness, and how difficult it is to find the unambiguous truth.

Nainen kedolla

2003

Legend of the Lake Bodom poster
4.3

The Legend of Bodom is a figment of the imagination, but it takes place in a land that once existed - between East and West, on the front lines of the Cold War. It is Pentecost morning in 1960. Three young people are found murdered on the shores of Lake Bodom.

Legend of the Lake Bodom

2006

The Interrogation poster
6.2

Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.

The Interrogation

2009

Mosku: The Last of His Kind poster
5.8

A story about the life of reindeer emperor Mosku in Eastern Lapland at the beginning of the 20th century, when social conditions and the practice of traditional livelihoods are in transition. Mosku is involved in reindeer disputes and skirmishes and is also involved in the bandit hunt on the side of Soviet Russia led by Wallenius, the commander of the Lapland border guard.

Mosku: The Last of His Kind

2003

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits

Kaverille ei jätetä poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kaverille ei jätetä

1999

Kaverille ei jätetä poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kaverille ei jätetä

1999

Modernit miehet poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Modernit miehet

2019

Helsinki Syndrome poster
6.8

Family man Elias Karo takes four journalist hostage at their newspaper’s headquarters, in a desperate attempt to get them to reveal the wrongdoing wreaked on his family during the 90's recession.

Helsinki Syndrome

2022

Uudisraivaaja poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Uudisraivaaja

2006

Raid poster
7.1

Raid is based on detective stories by author Harri Nykänen and made into a 12-part series. The story tells about a police officer who has been investigating white-collar crimes is shot dead in a TV-studio. Another policeman takes his own life at his summer home. A young woman, an executive with a powerful electronics concern, also commits suicide. Her embittered father suspects foul play and he invites Raid, the woman's former boyfriend to "make inquiries". Meanwhile, the police are looking for the first killer - and the trail leads inexorably to Raid. Very soon, however, they realise that the guilty party is somewhere else, and the interests of the police and the avenging angel Raid converge. The unholy alliance shows that even those with morals may, to some extent, use immoral means to achieve an end. The Raid series was voted the best TV-programme in Finland year 2000. Tapio Piirainen received an award for best script and best direction.

Raid

2000

Matkalaukkukostaja poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Matkalaukkukostaja

1991

Rakkauden nälkä poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rakkauden nälkä

2007

M/S Romantic poster
6.8

One night on a cruise ship between Helsinki and Stockholm, six stories of happiness and misfortune.

M/S Romantic

2019

Viimeiset siemenperunat poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viimeiset siemenperunat

1993

Hunajan maku poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hunajan maku

1993