Anton Soini

Acting

Anton Soini

Born — Died

1888-12-09 — 1961-04-29

Place of birth

Iisalmi, Finland

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

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

Saariston tyttö poster
5.7

Liisa, the daughter of fisherman Simeon, is having a romance with Peter, a city dweller who has arrived on the island. Liisa feels she is being punished for her forbidden feelings when her fiancé Antti's sister Maija falls ill with diphtheria and Antti is lost at sea in a storm.

Saariston tyttö

1953

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

Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä poster
5.2

Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.

Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä

1960

Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä poster
4.6

Pekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained as frogmen. During the diving exercises, the friends encounter the mermaid Helmi, whom they help into the bathtub at home, to Justiina's shock. The friends, who have become civilians, eventually end up on a plane bound for Suez, being cornered by UN soldiers.

Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä

1957

Veteraanin voitto poster
7.0

Timo learns about his grandfather Santeri's background in the workers' sports movement. Inspired by this, he begins to encourage his alcoholic father to practice his own sport, javelin throwing.

Veteraanin voitto

1955

Film credits

1960s · 7 titles

Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä poster
5.2

Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.

Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä

1960

Inspector Palmu's Error poster
7.0

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.

Inspector Palmu's Error

1960

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut poster
6.5

The unlucky layabout Isarkar Keturi brings a criminal gang to heel with the help of his assistant Mikael. He frees Irma, the daughter of mining magnate Tömstet, from captivity and a forced marriage to Kurt. Irma achieves her dream of becoming a pop star, with Isaskar's help.

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut

1960

Oho, sanoi Eemeli poster
9.0

Eemeli, a lazy farm boy, is sent out into the world by his parents due to poor potato harvest forecasts. On his way to the logging camp, he meets Tommi, a man from Helsinki who sells razors and is headed to the same destination. At the logging camp, the loggers and Eemeli perform several musical numbers and flee from Isabella, the cook, who is hungry for men.

Oho, sanoi Eemeli

1960

Kaks' tavallista Lahtista poster
4.3

The musical comedy tells the story of two friends about Usko and Toivo, both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.

Kaks' tavallista Lahtista

1960

Lumisten metsien tyttö poster
8.0

Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki.

Lumisten metsien tyttö

1960

Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis! poster
4.2

Eemeli leaves the countryside for Helsinki to obtain tax money for the bailiff who is pursuing him. In the capital, he becomes the assistant driver of Andersson, a cab driver. One night while driving, Eemeli meets Vesa and his little sister Jaana, whom Andersson and his granddaughter Katriina take into their family as foster children.

Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis!

1960

1950s · 43 titles

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

Saariston tyttö poster
5.7

Liisa, the daughter of fisherman Simeon, is having a romance with Peter, a city dweller who has arrived on the island. Liisa feels she is being punished for her forbidden feelings when her fiancé Antti's sister Maija falls ill with diphtheria and Antti is lost at sea in a storm.

Saariston tyttö

1953

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

Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä poster
4.6

Pekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained as frogmen. During the diving exercises, the friends encounter the mermaid Helmi, whom they help into the bathtub at home, to Justiina's shock. The friends, who have become civilians, eventually end up on a plane bound for Suez, being cornered by UN soldiers.

Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä

1957

Veteraanin voitto poster
7.0

Timo learns about his grandfather Santeri's background in the workers' sports movement. Inspired by this, he begins to encourage his alcoholic father to practice his own sport, javelin throwing.

Veteraanin voitto

1955

Minä ja mieheni morsian poster
6.0

Tuulikki Tenho, who lied about her marital status to get a job as a secretary at a timber company, has to pretend that she is married to Yrjö Aaltonen, an architect she has just met. A romance begins to blossom between the couple, but it is revealed that Yrjö is already engaged to Virva Lieki, a dancer returning to Finland from abroad.

Minä ja mieheni morsian

1955

Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa poster
5.3

Justiina gives lessons to friends who are avoiding work and sends them to work. Pekka and Pätkä end up in a woodworking factory, where their job is to nail together the legs of a Christmas tree. The men think they will get rich this way, but through misadventures they end up in many different jobs and being chased by a crowd of admiring women.

Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa

1955

Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa poster
5.5

Justiina Puupää drives her husband Pekka and his friend Pätkä to look for work. The two decide to make money the easy way and try to have an accident after first getting accident insurance. After trying their luck, they hurt their heads and in the hospital, the comrades see each other's more outrageous antics.

Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa

1957

Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen poster
6.5

Olli Suominen has been appointed acting sheriff in the countryside, and the whole family has left for Kesäranta to spend the summer. The peaceful rural life is interrupted when small farmer Pullin's hay barn is destroyed in a fire and Anita and Aarne, the Lokka family who have moved in next door, get to know the Suominen family.

Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen

1959

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

Kolmas laukaus poster
5.7

Inspector Susikoski is inspecting the murder of an agronom in the countryside, during his summer holiday trip. He participates to the investigation of the case. The case seems to be clear, but there is much more than meets the eye.

Kolmas laukaus

1959

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

Opri poster
10.0

Opri is an evacuee from Karelia and is forced to move into a nursing home when his cottage is demolished. He immediately begins to take care of other elderly residents and nursing home staff, as well as their romantic concerns, as soon as he steps into his new home.

Opri

1954

Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli? poster
4.8

St. Peter's announcement interrupts the Welcome to Morning Coffee radio program. He asks people for help because he does not know whether private detective Uljas Uriel Vaaksanpää has died or is still alive. The strange events are followed from the perspective of different characters.

Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?

1952

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

Kiinni on ja pysyy poster
5.5

Pekka and Pätkä work as inventors. Pätkä accidentally takes a photograph of bank robbers, who begin to track down the photographer. Soma Koivu, the former secretary of the property manager Kiivas, and police officer Antero Kangas help Pekka and Pätkä catch the robbers at a film studio where Pekka is working as a stand-in for Superman.

Kiinni on ja pysyy

1955

Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä poster
5.3

Trade counselor Lillukka leaves his entire fortune to Pekka Puupää, who, thanks to cartoons and films, has become closer to him than his immediate family, who are pursuing their own interests. Pekka starts running a toy factory and hires a freckle-faced bowling boy as the company's errand boy. Widowed trade counselor Gunilla Lillukka tries to get married to Pätkä, who has been promoted to assistant director.

Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä

1958

Kaunis Kaarina poster
6.7

Kaarina, an orphan girl raised by Taneli, the innkeeper, notices that her friendship with her childhood friend Antti is turning into romance. Henrik, the patron, also has his eye on Kaarina.

Kaunis Kaarina

1955

Senni ja Savon sulttaani poster
4.0

University student Jaakko and master's degree holder Aarne arrive in a rural village, where they become involved in organizing a charity event and the relationship problems of farmhand Kaapro and maid Senni.

Senni ja Savon sulttaani

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

Tukkijoella poster
4.0

A 3rd remake of the film based on the play by Teuvo Pakkala. Tells the story of the lumberjack group and how the lives of villagers and lumberjacks intertwine. Many loving couples are formed between jacks and village girls. At the same time, the farm of Pietola and the house matron, Katri is coveted by malicious Rättäri. He owns the IOU papers for Pietola and tries to get Katri using the IOU as blackmail.

Tukkijoella

1951

Kipparikvartetti poster
4.2

Composer and program director Harri forms a quartet, recruiting Apon, Teika, Kauko, and Olli as members. Based on an idea from Olli's beloved Raija, the ensemble is named the Kipparikvartetti.

Kipparikvartetti

1952

Me tulemme taas poster
5.7

The film tells the story of the romance between the timber rafters and widow Kaisa, her daughter Satu and Katri from Karkela. Problems are caused by the men in the village, especially the Master of Karkela, who has his own plans for widow's land.

Me tulemme taas

1953

Niskavuori taistelee poster
5.9

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

Niskavuori taistelee

1957

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

Ryysyrannan Jooseppi poster
5.0

Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.

Ryysyrannan Jooseppi

1955

Juha poster
3.0

Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova Shemeikka arrives from strange lands and takes Marja away with him.

Juha

1956

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

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

On lautalla pienoinen kahvila poster
4.5

Journalist Sanni visits the countryside to write about the timber industry. Looking for a room she is immediately thrust into the merry community of loggers, always up for a song, but one of them, Hurma-Jussi, is a little too persistent. Luckily, she is “saved” by the handsome lumberjack Eräs.

On lautalla pienoinen kahvila

1952

Young Love poster
5.5

Story of first love affair during summer school holidays, in a pastoral setting.

Young Love

1955

Pastori Jussilainen poster
5.7

The year is 1895 in a small village in Savo, where new ideas such as women's rights and folk high schools are vehemently opposed by Pastor Jussilainen, both in his home and in the parish. His wife Eveliina, the maids, and the conservative parishioners all experience his vehemence. However, the pastor meets his match when his mother-in-law arrives for a visit.

Pastori Jussilainen

1955

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

Onni etsii asuntoa poster
7.0

Due to the post-war housing shortage, Pirkko, who has nowhere to sleep, is given accommodation at the full-service guesthouse run by landlady Töttermanska. There she meets the other residents: student Eskoo, foreman Heikki, antique dealer Theodor, and businessman Roope, whose acquaintance with the beautiful Dolly draws the whole group into criminal activities.

Onni etsii asuntoa

1955

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

Minä soitan sinulle illalla poster
9.0

Factory manager Risto Järviö is under his mother's thumb. When his mother forbids him from dancing with factory girl Seija Vaara, Seija decides to make anonymous phone calls to Risto to annoy his controlling mother. Risto falls in love with the voice on the other end of the line and begins to make major changes in his life.

Minä soitan sinulle illalla

1954

2 hauskaa vekkulia poster
5.3

Musical comedy about two friends trying to advance in music business at any price.

2 hauskaa vekkulia

1953

Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä poster
5.0

Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. As a result they meet an orphan boy named Otto while working as a park nannies. They offer to shelter the boy, but at the same time the father Antti, who has returned from the sea, is looking for his son together with Miss Raikas.

Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä

1955

Punainen viiva poster
6.0

The story of the first elections in Finland. Farmer Topi Romppainen lives a modest life with his family in Kainuu in the early 20th century. While shopping in the village, Topi hears about the upcoming parliamentary elections. His wife Riikka decides to find out more and ends up at a meeting of the Social Democrats.

Punainen viiva

1959

Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa poster
5.5

An ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be his stand-in to escape the ring of spies threatening his life. Many beautiful women cross Kivi's path before the spy ring is eventually crushed.

Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa

1959

Lain mukaan poster
6.7

Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the previous fall, when Patron Oppman begins to approach Maria, offering her money in return for services.

Lain mukaan

1956

Asessorin naishuolet poster
8.0

After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.

Asessorin naishuolet

1958

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

1940s · 8 titles

Loviisa – Niskavuoren nuori emäntä poster
5.5

Strong women take care of the property while the men focus on chasing women.

Loviisa – Niskavuoren nuori emäntä

1946

Oi, aika vanha, kultainen…! poster
7.0

Joonas, a perpetual student living in a small town and working odd jobs, wants to spend May Day in Helsinki with his classmates from 30 years ago. His old friends are successful, but they have grown apart and are unhappy. Joonas helps them rediscover friendship and the joy of living.

Oi, aika vanha, kultainen…!

1942

Poikamies-pappa poster
7.5

Bohemian painter Lasse receives a million-dollar inheritance from his aunt who has moved to Australia, on condition that he finds a permanent job, a spouse, and an heir within a week. To top it all off, Lasse must find the will, which unfortunately disappears inside a framed movie star poster belonging to his roommate Jop.

Poikamies-pappa

1941

Valkoiset ruusut poster
5.5

Set in turn of the century Helsinki, author Arvo Helavalla's novel makes an indelible impression on adolescent Auli Ranta. She idolizes the author of a work that can never be forgotten.

Valkoiset ruusut

1943

Täysosuma poster
5.0

A young heiress settles into a holiday hotel in search of a suitable husband. There are enough groom candidates, some gentlemen, and some cheaters. All that is certain is that the misfortunes will not end.

Täysosuma

1941

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

Pikku-Matti maailmalla poster
3.7

Little Matti, who has been living in the countryside with his grandmother, leaves for Helsinki to search for his missing mother, Kerttu. In the city, he is helped by Taneli, a homeless alcoholic artist, and Salme, a girl who lives with her alcoholic aunt.

Pikku-Matti maailmalla

1947

Suomisen perhe poster
10.0

The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family.

Suomisen perhe

1941