Acting

Leevi Linko

Born 1908-02-16 · Turku, Finland

Acting credits

Niskavuoren Heta poster
6.1

Heta, the strong-willed daughter of the Niskavuori family, who is pregnant, marries Akusti, a farmhand, and remains bitter toward Santeria, who broke her heart. Heta and Akusti begin their life together on the modest Muumäki farm, where they are assisted by their loyal maid Siipirikko.

Niskavuoren Heta

1952

The Doll Merchant poster
6.2

A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.

The Doll Merchant

1955

Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen poster
7.0

Schoolboy Klaus is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and difficulties he keeps up his studies under the supervision of the grim Master Kahari.

Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen

1953

The Unknown Soldier poster
7.2

It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.

The Unknown Soldier

1955

Amor hoi! poster
6.0

Master Tuula Vihervo teaches languages ​​at a women's college, where American-Finnish Charles Thompson Jr arrives to do an inspection on behalf of his father's college donor. The arrival of a guest and Tuula's infatuation causes a stir inside the college and in a restaurant in Helsinki, where Tuula starts performing as the singer Irina Meller.

Amor hoi!

1950

Here, Beneath the North Star poster
6.8

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.

Here, Beneath the North Star

1968

Niskavuori taistelee poster
5.9

The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.

Niskavuori taistelee

1957

Elinan surma poster
8.0

Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart Uolevi, and to marry Klaus Kurki, a local nobleman with money and influence. An ideal match according to her family and the greedy parish priest, but all is not as it seems: Kurki is a vicious man, tormented by the spirit of his last wife.

Elinan surma

1938

Sven Tuuva the Hero poster
5.7

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.

Sven Tuuva the Hero

1958

Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa poster
5.0

A documentary or rather a bulletin style movie about Finnish Air Forces in the 1930s.

Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa

1934

No artwork available
8.0

Engineering student Petteri and retired captain Jere Renkonen arrive in Terijoki as guests of architect Matti Marras at the villa he has rented. In the midst of everything, the owner of the villa, Russian émigré prince Asatiánts, arrives with his niece Darja. Petteri eavesdrops and learns that the prince is expecting a "man from Marseille" at the villa. This man is supposed to take a secret document hidden in a large cabinet in the hall across the border to Moscow, containing information about the hiding place of the prince's family jewels.

Mies Marseillesta

1937

Varsovan laulu poster
7.8

A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.

Varsovan laulu

1953

Laulava sydän poster
7.0

Bank clerk Aarno Harjus is dismissed from his job due to false criminal allegations, and at the same time his wife leaves him. With the help of his friend, Detective Inspector Erä, Harjus gets the opportunity to appear on the radio under the pseudonym Con Amore. Like many other women, nurse Rauni also becomes interested in the handsome singer.

Laulava sydän

1948

Lentävä kalakukko poster
6.3

After a robbery, a gang of bandits led by Kulaus-Ramperi flees Helsinki on the Kuopio express train "Lentävä kalakukko" and tries to hide in the crowded train filled with music and singing. The cheerful conductor Saastamoinen protects the motley crew traveling on the train.

Lentävä kalakukko

1953

Silja – nuorena nukkunut poster
6.6

In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a number of bachelors, ranging from simple farmhand Väinö to sophisticated young student Armas whom she meets when working for a charming old professor. However, Silja's health starts to deteriorate, and when the Finnish Civil War breaks up in 1918, she is inadvertently involved in a small incident after which her loyalties are questioned by both the Reds and the Whites.

Silja – nuorena nukkunut

1956

Herra sotaministeri poster
7.0

Kalle, a shy and absent-minded civil servant at the comparison agency, unwittingly becomes Minister of War. He receives help in his new role from Maria, the daughter of Finance Minister Karpio. Problems in the performance of his duties lead Kalle to a court martial, and he resigns from his ministerial post to start a new life with his neighbor Leena.

Herra sotaministeri

1957

Niskavuoren Aarne poster
6.4

Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In chronological order of the Niskavuori series, the film is the fourth. Aarne has married Ilona and left the house in Niskavuori, which he hosts, where his former wife Martta still lives, while the old mistress is holding the reins. Aarne and Ilona live in Helsinki, but Aarne has not been able to completely break away from Niskavuori, but keeps secretly in touch with the headmaster and gives instructions on the farm management.

Niskavuoren Aarne

1954

Kunnioittaen poster
7.0

Elmeri Vara from the General Stabilization Party, Selma Vuorinen from the Free Enlightenment Party, and Irja Solanen from the Independent Women's Party are competing for seats in parliament. When young Pertti and his classmates start a campaign with caricatures against Vara and Vuorinen, whom they consider unfit, Principal Reino has to decide whether to support the parliamentary candidates or his students, and how he feels about the candidacy of his beloved Irja.

Kunnioittaen

1954

Se alkoi sateessa poster
9.0

Vuokko takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a fishing hut and meets a mysterious man whom she suspects is the smuggler Rompan Eetu. Instead of reporting him, Vuokko decides to follow him to Helsinki to the smugglers' hideout on the condition that he agrees to turn himself and his comrades in to the police.

Se alkoi sateessa

1953

Pikku suorasuu poster
10.0

Iris Klewe is brought from her forest cottage by her bank-manager uncle Kaarlo Heinonen to attend school in Helsinki, where his wife and elder children resent the poor foster girl while only the youngest child and the cook show her kindness. Kaarlo’s financial troubles start to threaten Iris’s inheritance.

Pikku suorasuu

1962

Ruusu ja kulkuri poster
8.0

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an international singing star, Aappo never forgets his first love Katri, who faithfully waits in Liminga for his return.

Ruusu ja kulkuri

1948

Yhden yön hinta poster
6.3

The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.

Yhden yön hinta

1952

Katarina kaunis leski poster
5.7

1790 Turku. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus Schildt.

Katarina kaunis leski

1950