Acting

Heikki Peltonen

Born 1947-06-27 · Uusikaupunki, Finland

Acting credits

The Inspector poster
NR

Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.

The Inspector

2011

Eisenstein in Guanajuato poster
6.1

In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

2015

Toto poster
6.0

A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.

Toto

1982

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin poster
4.5

April is the Cruelest of Months is a 1983 film directed by Suvi-Marja Korvenheimo, also known as Anssi Mänttäri, and the final part of the Korvenheimo trilogy. It was named after the first verse of T. S. Eliot's poem series The Waste Land. The film, shot in ten days, is a satire on the candles of Finnish culture.

Huhtikuu on kuukausista julmin

1983

Ylösnousemus poster
6.0

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.

Ylösnousemus

1985

Pimeys odottaa poster
4.5

Matti Mäki is a young man who gets involved with a corrupt police man seeking proof that his wife, a night club singer, is cheating on him in this film noir style thriller.

Pimeys odottaa

1985

Isku vasten kasvoja poster
10.0

Hanhivaara investigates the murder of an Olympic champion.

Isku vasten kasvoja

1988

Viimeiset rotannahat poster
5.0

Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially vulgar black humour.

Viimeiset rotannahat

1985