Acting

Eija Pokkinen

Born 1939-12-06 · Kirvu, Finland

Eija Pokkinen is an actress.

Acting credits

The Year of the Hare poster
7.3

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life

The Year of the Hare

1977

Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth poster
7.0

Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois

Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth

1968

The Green Widow poster
4.8

A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.

The Green Widow

1968

Onnenpeli poster
5.1

Jussi is a magazine editor who lives in an inherited apartment in Kruununhaka with his sister Eeva, who works as a summer editor, and his flight attendant girlfriend Leena.

Onnenpeli

1965

Castle Keep poster
5.7

During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.

Castle Keep

1969

Loma poster
5.8

After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria.

Loma

1976

Distance poster
6.5

’Distance’ is an award-winning, independent feature film exploring the distance between men and women through the intertwined stories of two couples. Made by the filmmaker while he was still in his 20s, ‘Distance’ features Oscar-nominee James Woods in his first leading role.

Distance

1975

Don't Play with Martians poster
2.0

These space people have cat eyes and a disintegrating pistol; and when they touch a woman 's lips with their magic kiss.

Don't Play with Martians

1968

Kesäkapina poster
5.1

Young photography model Susanna and her alienated teenage brother Veli spend the summer of 1969 travelling around Finland, mostly with another girl and her boyfriend. Sporting the latest fashions and trendy hairdos, they naïvely observe and criticise the modern consumer society, advertising, fancy boats and summer cottages, country dances, barbecues, and any other phenomena that were supposed to bother angry young intellectuals in those days. The plot and the political agenda are delivered with a cheerful, tongue-in-cheek mixture of documentary observations, fake TV commercials, fake interviews, philosophical voiceovers and titles, and a jazzy soundtrack by the progressive rock group Wigwam.

Kesäkapina

1970