Jalmari Parikka

Acting

Jalmari Parikka

Born 1891-10-16 · Sortavala, Finland

Acting credits

Ketunhäntä kainalossa poster
8.0

In this comedy set in Helsinki in 1940, laid-off office girls Sirkku, Irkku, and Mirkku forget their everyday worries in the company of cheerful musicians Vallen, Jalle, and Nalle.

Ketunhäntä kainalossa

1940

Hilmanpäivät poster
6.2

The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but due to the confusion, extinguishing the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected.

Hilmanpäivät

1954

Niskavuoren naiset poster
4.6

A story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living.

Niskavuoren naiset

1958

The Stolen Death poster
7.2

A group of Finnish activists are waging an underground war against Russian oppression led by young idealistic aristocrat Robert Hedman.

The Stolen Death

1938

Nuori mylläri poster
5.7

A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to moralistic criticism, even though he is in fact only in love with the tailor's daughter.

Nuori mylläri

1958

Rakkaus kahleissa poster
9.0

A lock factory worker Pertti would like to marry his girlfriend Verna, but fears they don't have enough money. His brother Martti is a member of a youth gang that is planning a robbery with three other young men. When the boys have to flee at the time of the robbery, Pertti who secretly shadowed them sees an opportunity to solve his money problem.

Rakkaus kahleissa

1955

Eulalia-täti poster
8.0

Mauri Huhkinen, a busy man in Tukkilahden, has taken on so many municipal positions of trust that he has three meetings in one evening and no time for his family. Everything changes when the residents of Tukkilahden hear about Mauri and his fellow trustees' rowdy night out at a restaurant in Helsinki.

Eulalia-täti

1940

Kovanaama poster
5.8

Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.

Kovanaama

1954

Hei, rillumarei! poster
7.0

Traveler Severi travels to Helsinki to enjoy some culture, where he meets Sinikka and Simo, who run a buying and selling business. At a customs auction, he buys a painting that businessman Kehveli and his assistants also have their eyes on.

Hei, rillumarei!

1954

The Witch poster
6.2

An archaeological team unearths a body of a young woman, who was told to be a witch buried in the bog some 300 years ago. Soon a naked woman appears and drives the men of the village crazy...

The Witch

1952

Olemme kaikki syyllisiä poster
8.3

A psychological drama of a young student who is haunted by the nightmares of the past: he has witnessed his parents committing a double-suicide. He starts to date a girl with fateful consequences.

Olemme kaikki syyllisiä

1954

Totinen torvensoittaja poster
5.5

After many mishaps, City Engineer Volmari arrives at the masquerade ball wearing a suit of knight's armor from the museum. He dances with his blind date crush Raili until Bertha, the black singer from the circus, pulls him away and a new whirlwind of misunderstandings begins.

Totinen torvensoittaja

1941

Orpopojan valssi poster
8.0

A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful couplet singer - the "king of couplets".

Orpopojan valssi

1949

Onni pyörii poster
5.5

Story about about a young man who was raised in an orphanage. Kauko goes to Helsinki to work as a store help. The living the big city is not so easy as Kauko expects and not so grand.

Onni pyörii

1942

Mä oksalla ylimmällä poster
5.7

A fictional love story between famous composer Gabriel Linsén and opera singer Maria Sawina in 19th century Finland.

Mä oksalla ylimmällä

1954

Risti ja liekki poster
4.2

Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery disguised as a choir boy, but is revealed by a monk Rasmus, who also desires her, and is put on trial.

Risti ja liekki

1957

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

Kulkurin valssi poster
5.3

St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him.

Kulkurin valssi

1941

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

Rantasalmen sulttaani poster
4.2

Merchant Ville arrives in Malaga with his secretary Esa to meet Outsider regarding a valuable inheritance. Esa falls in love with Spanish beauty Carmen, who joins the pair on their trip to Morocco. Carmen's husband Juan also follows the group.

Rantasalmen sulttaani

1953

Onnellinen ministeri poster
6.3

An artist bases a painting for a revealing lingerie ad on a photo of a girl he had found torn from a magazine, not knowing that the girl is in fact the daughter of the Finnish minister of finance. A scandal is about to erupt, and the artist is given 48 hours to find a strikingly similar-looking female model who could serve as his alibi. The minister's daughter decides to fool the artist by pretending to be a lowly girl of the streets, whom the artist then recruits as his "model".

Onnellinen ministeri

1941

Salakuljettajan laulu poster
6.0

Customs officer Tapio goes undercover to reveal a smuggling ring, which operates within an entrainment troupe. While doing his detective work, he also gets to know the beautiful dancer Leila.

Salakuljettajan laulu

1952

Muuan sulhasmies poster
8.0

Mauritz Grafvenhjelm, alias Moppe, an impoverished nobleman, and his friend Ville enjoy a carefree life as vagabonds in summery Porvoo until Moppe finds a large sum of money and receives a reward for it. After celebrating thoroughly at the Belvedere restaurant, he wakes up in the morning in a cell with no memory of what happened and learns that he has become engaged to the restaurant owner, Miss Svea Jonson.

Muuan sulhasmies

1956

Pikku Ilona ja hänen karitsansa poster
9.0

Ilona, an orphan from the cruel Paksula family, ends up in Helsinki at a children's home for immigrants and from there becomes a foster daughter in the Orpana family, where she begins to sort out the relationship between her war-disabled stepbrother Pentti and his girlfriend Irene.

Pikku Ilona ja hänen karitsansa

1957