Acting

Sirkka Breider

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Minkkiturkki poster
4.0

A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.

Minkkiturkki

1961

Miljoonavaillinki poster
9.0

A manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. An office manager promises to take the blame if the manager promises to behave better.

Miljoonavaillinki

1961

Myöhästynyt hääyö poster
5.5

Otto and Kaija have celebrated their surprise wedding, but after a coctail party nothing between them is the same as Otto does not remember what actually happened, and the mess is ready when Otto's American uncle who hates women comes for a visit.

Myöhästynyt hääyö

1960

Nuoruus vauhdissa poster
6.5

Laila and Lasse are two teenagers dreaming about careers as singers. Lasse's brother Rami dreams about motorbike racing and dates a pretty blond Anjukka. Her father works in the hot new field of TV advertising, which might be a good route to stardom for Laila and Lasse. But then Anjukka sets her eyes on Lasse and Rami sets his on Laila, and many a popular hit melody is sung in between.

Nuoruus vauhdissa

1961

The Scarlet Dove poster
6.1

Dr. Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa follows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect.

The Scarlet Dove

1961

Ihana seikkailu poster
5.0

Young Helena is reluctantly about to marry Brynolf, the chamberlain, when her cousin and beloved Paul arrives to stop the wedding and takes Helena to her grandmother's house. The grandmother thinks that the wedding has already taken place and that Paul is Brynolf, the chamberlain.

Ihana seikkailu

1962

1950s · 24 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

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

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

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

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

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

Tanssi yli hautojen poster
4.8

In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.

Tanssi yli hautojen

1950

Miljonäärimonni poster
5.0

A farce about a wealthy young man who attempts to keep up his lifestyle even in the army.

Miljonäärimonni

1953

Lasisydän poster
6.3

A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.

Lasisydän

1959

Isän vanha ja uusi poster
6.0

An architect, who has recently married a new, younger wife, tries to re-connect with his ex-wife, who is being courted by another man.

Isän vanha ja uusi

1955

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

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

Yö on pitkä poster
8.0

Åke Strandberg has managed to get a fine education and a good job at the bank, but he wants more. He wants to get rich no matter what. After holidays with his girl Rita, he comes back to Helsinki completely broke and meets up with his buddy Jussi in a bar. For months they embezzle money from the bank, but eventually do realize they have to cover the missing amount by orchestrating and committing a robbery which will then rouse the interest of the police. A hide and seek follows as they try to make their way abroad.

Yö on pitkä

1952

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

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

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

Rakas varkaani poster
5.3

Lissie is a pickpocket who escapes from the police by pretending to be the wife of the absent-minded Leopold. Leopold falls in love with the young woman, but Lissie is more interested in the valuables she finds in the wealthy professor's apartment.

Rakas varkaani

1957

Kahden ladun poikki poster
9.0

Young Anna marries Tuomas, an old widower. Tuomas reluctantly sells his forest to the boss of Ruukki and is forced to take in a group of loggers, among whom the handsome womanizer Humu begins to seduce the young mistress of the house.

Kahden ladun poikki

1958

Kuningas kulkureitten poster
5.2

The young Count Martin von Tandenskiöld who has returned from the war is forced into a battle with a Russian colonel after he harasses his bride Karin. Chased by the Cossacks Martin escapes and joins the old wanderer. On the way Martin encounters adventures and beautiful women.

Kuningas kulkureitten

1953

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

Lännen lokarin veli poster
6.6

Coal miner Esaias Coolman returns to Finland from his working years in America.

Lännen lokarin veli

1952

Lentävä kalakukko poster
6.2

After a robbery, a gang of bandits led by Kulaus-Ramperi flees Helsinki on the Kuopio express train "Lentävä kalakukko" and tries to hide in the crowded train filled with music and singing. The cheerful conductor Saastamoinen protects the motley crew traveling on the train.

Lentävä kalakukko

1953

1918 poster
8.0

Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.

1918

1957

Muhoksen Mimmi poster
5.0

The story of poor brake man Jaakko and beautiful train conductor Mimmi, who is also admired by welder Heikki, rapper Ranssu, bricklayer Martsu, and engineer Immu. The story also involves Jenny and Aleksi, a Roma couple who run a construction site canteen.

Muhoksen Mimmi

1952