Writing

Heikki Vuento

Born 1951-12-06 · Kemi, Finland

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Days of Grace poster
7.0

A fisherman's son accidentally ends up in a leper colony in 1742.

Days of Grace

1999

No artwork available
NR

A 1982 TV movie by Marjaana Mykkanen.

Last Night…

1982

Jon poster
6.3

Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too.

Jon

1983

Lunastus poster
5.2

In a small village in Eastern Finland in 1918, Patrick, who has taken care of the chaplain, teacher and physician, has been filled with loneliness and brutal spirit of work for five years.

Lunastus

1997

Sutki poster
2.0

Sutki travels around Finland selling his wife's knitted mittens at market stalls. Business is slow, and Sutki's boisterous lifestyle doesn't help matters. Sutki is an enterprising salesman. In addition to mittens, he even manages to sell lottery tickets for the disabled. However, as his name suggests, Sutki gets himself into all kinds of trouble, both possible and impossible.

Sutki

1993

Lahja poster
5.1

A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.

Lahja

1997

Postia marsalkalle poster
3.0

Story of a simple-minded Finnish soldier set in the winter of 1943.

Postia marsalkalle

1991

Bad Luck Love poster
5.8

A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka, a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy.

Bad Luck Love

2000

Things We Do for Love poster
5.2

Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness.

Things We Do for Love

2013

Mystery of the Wolf poster
6.2

Adopted, 12-year-old Salla lives in Lapland. After she rescues some wolf cubs from a poacher, her mission to keep them safe helps her reunite with her mother, who shares her mysterious connection with nature.

Mystery of the Wolf

2006