Acting

Markku Köngäs

Born

1958-12-06 (67)

Place of birth

Tervola, Finland

Known for

Acting

Credits

10 titles

Known for

Lapland Odyssey poster
6.5

Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.

Lapland Odyssey

2010

Viimeinen ilta poster
4.5

A film about a night out dancing in 1961. About love that is crushed before it can flourish.

Viimeinen ilta

1987

The Winter War poster
6.9

After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, serve in a Finnish platoon.

The Winter War

1989

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pimeän hehku

1996

Kummeli Kultakuume poster
6.4

Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.

Kummeli Kultakuume

1997

Päin perhettä poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Päin perhettä

1992

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

Series credits