Tarja Markus

Acting

Tarja Markus

Born 1946-01-14 · Riihimäki, Finland

Tarja Markus is a vocalist and actress. Tarja Markus was born on 14 January 1946 in Riihimäki, Finland. She is an actress, known for Punatukka (1969), A Time of Roses (1969) and Vain silloin kun nauran (1984). She has been married to Pertti Roisko since 1978. They have one child. She was previously married to Jorma Markus.

Acting credits

The Brothers poster
6.5

Two brothers, two different lifestyles collide. Eero is a young married man who opens up a print shop and struggles to get it going. Eki is a student with Marxist ideas, although he dates the daughter of a wealthy shipowner.

The Brothers

1969

Palkkasoturi poster
5.8

The story of a modest man, played by Ilkka Heiskanen, who decides to become a mercenary in the Yugoslavian civil war. This decision leaves him completely destitute. His parents do not approve of his decision, nor do his friends at the local bar.

Palkkasoturi

1997

Time of Roses poster
5.0

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media.

Time of Roses

1969

Trust poster
3.8

In December 1917, a Finnish delegation arrives in St. Petersburg to meet Vladimir Lenin to seek recognition of Finland's independence.

Trust

1976

Kamome Diner poster
7.4

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.

Kamome Diner

2006

Punatukka poster
4.8

A story about young factory worker Tuija, who has recently met an interesting young man. When the death of a friend interrupts a monotonous and carefree life, the strangest week of Tuija's life begins.

Punatukka

1969

Kahdeksas veljes poster
5.6

Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.

Kahdeksas veljes

1971

Sixtynine poster
5.3

Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She also finds out about his extra-marital affair with a female rally driver. In revenge, Tuula starts seeing her gynecologist Timo Paasi, a married man with six children.

Sixtynine

1969

Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika poster
5.7

Speedy Gonzales arrives in a small village in New York to investigate the mysterious death of his brother Moses, with the help of the lively Rita. In the village, they are met by Hämeen Hitain, Manolito, Bat Mastersson, and Clyde, among others, with whom Speedy must compete. His curiosity ultimately leads him to become the target of a manhunt.

Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika

1970

Miljoonaliiga poster
8.0

Reiska who has moved to Helsinki from the country starts working as an errand boy in Sweden and Denmark for Lehto, a leader of a criminal league. Reiska's friend from school, Lea, who dreams of being a singer, drifts under Lehto's influence as well.

Miljoonaliiga

1968

Frozen Foods poster
7.0

A wildly satirical deconstruction of TV advertising.

Frozen Foods

1969