Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala

Acting

Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala

Born 1937-09-04 · Helsinki, Finland

Acting credits

Eight Deadly Shots poster
7.7

Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.

Eight Deadly Shots

1972

Marked poster
5.1

Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past. Irma attempts to commit suicide, and resurrects at the city morgue after being pronounced dead. After the incident, she wanders out direction-less, being pursued by the doctor who treated her and also a strange, tall man.

Marked

1984

Aita poster
4.7

Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love with his daughter's new friend, 16-year old flirtatious Saija.

Aita

2001

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

Hemåt i natten poster
9.0

Harri is one of Sweden's many Finnish immigrant-workers. While in Sweden, the illiterate Harri marries and has a child. After accidentally killing a man in a fight, he flees back across the border to Finland and begins to pick up the pieces of his life, but soon, the police come looking for him.

Hemåt i natten

1977

Rautatie poster
7.8

Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.

Rautatie

1973

Pähkähullu Suomi poster
5.8

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the film’s whole premise is about presenting Finland in hilarious fashion to foreigners and perhaps also making fun of some of the myths of Finnish culture for Finns themselves.

Pähkähullu Suomi

1967

Tähtikeinu poster
5.0

L. Onerva and Eino Leino - two people, two rebels, prisoners of a difficult love relationship. Along with two passionate poets, there will be a third wheel, a young and talented composer Leevi Madetoja.

Tähtikeinu

2003

Kauhun millimetrit poster
7.0

Marja Sauri, who lives in Helsinki at the end of the 1980s, is going to the store to replace defective garden shears with new ones. Along the way, she collides with a woman on the street who Marja insults in anger. Within a day, Marja begins to see strange delusions about the same woman she encountered earlier.

Kauhun millimetrit

1992

Man's Job poster
5.7

Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family. But one day Juha is fired from his job. Ashamed, he weaves a web of lies to hide the fact from his family. With the help of his friend Olli, Juha begins prostituting himself to support his wife and children. With this he makes in two hours what it took him two days to earn before. The shame and deception mushroom, but the pay from the new profession seems to offset the downside.

Man's Job

2007

Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies poster
3.7

Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.

Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies

1998

Popular Music poster
6.3

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.

Popular Music

2004

Lyhyt elokuva Helsingistä poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lyhyt elokuva Helsingistä

2000

Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava poster
4.8

New takeover plans and Russian art thief looking for Mannerheim's portraits keep Sergeant Körmy busy.

Vääpeli Körmy ja kahtesti laukeava

1997

Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti poster
4.8

Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.

Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti

1987

Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life poster
4.6

Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.

Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life

2004

The Year of the Wolf poster
5.8

Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides toabandon his wife, children and idea of a perfect life. Both characters have been tooscared to live their lives to the brim for too long. But they meet, and in spite oftheir prejudices and reserved natures, they manage to create a dramatic and movingmodern romance which confronts numerous taboos. While the imagery explores theboundary between life and death in a most poetic way, the odd couple's romance istold with both bite and humour. Society - be it in the shape of angry ex-wives,overprotective parents, conservative aunts or embittered colleagues - is doing whatit can to put a spanner in the works."

The Year of the Wolf

2007

Syksyllä kaikki on toisin poster
5.7

A small Finnish town bank manager gets caught in the midst of local politics, with dire effects on his family and himself.

Syksyllä kaikki on toisin

1978

Onnentyttö poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Onnentyttö

1983

Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät poster
4.8

The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons launch equipment and codes to neutral Finland.

Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät

1992

Hei kliffaa hei poster
4.8

The film is based on characters from the Mänttien TV-asema sketches featured on the Spede Show.

Hei kliffaa hei

1985

Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva poster
5.7

The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.

Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva

1990

Back to the USSR poster
5.8

Reima Elo ends up trying to commit suicide when he is abandoned by his wife Molla. He is also the village's laughing stock due to his communism. At a critical moment, a Lenin lookalike from Russia named Vladimir rescues him.

Back to the USSR

1992

Ihmemies poster
7.3

Olli Ruusunen attended a special training course in the US, where his brain capacity has been developed to the extreme.

Ihmemies

1979