
Acting
Mats Långbacka
Born 1963-09-19 · Helsinki, Finland
Mats Långbacka was born on 19 September 1963 in Helsinki, Finland. He is an actor and producer, known for Glenn (2008), Hamilton (1998) and Moomins on the Riviera (2014). He was previously married to Kaija Penttala.
Acting credits
6.0Documentary about the legendary club Lepakko (The Bat) in Finland.
Lepakko – Upstairs Downstairs
2000
6.8When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.
Frozen Land
2005
6.5Maverick pilot must learn to live with disability.
Älskar älskar inte
1995
5.8The Moomins along with Little My and Snorkmaiden had a sea journey that after storms and desert island dangers leads the family to Riviera, the place that takes their unity to the test.
Moomins on the Riviera
2014
5.5A middle-aged mental patient suffering from a split personality travels to Italy where his two personalities set off all kinds of confusing developments.
The Leaning Tower
2006
5.8A government agent leads his team's effort to stop Russian rebels from smuggling a stolen missile through Sweden.
Hamilton
1998
6.8In this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the city to his summer cottage with his children and a lady next door, a divorced university teacher is forced to pick up a young delirious woman from the roadside. He soon falls in love with her, only to find out she is a sought-after deserter from a violent guerilla army.
Routasydän
1993
NRSurrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.
The Inspector
2011
Drama documentary about the assissination of Nikolai Bobrikov, Russian governor general in Grand Duchy of Finland. In 16th June 1904 student Eugen Schauman shot Bobrikov at the staircase of Senate in Helsinki and after that himself.
Fem skott i senaten
1992
5.2Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their lives have changed considerably. Anna is a war widow; Martti a writer, is married, and has five children.
Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
1988
6.5In 1860s Lapland, gold diggers Jakob Ervast and Nils Lepistö, who previously worked in California, embark on an arduous journey towards the north. The friends find gold at the first excavation site, which Kittilä's crown prince Konrad Planting and Edvard Manninen also start looking for.
Lapin kullan kimallus
1999
5.8Karri, Pete, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can. They're dealing with the same issues as every other young man — fears and hopes for future, disillusions and problems with parents.
Almost 18
2012
4.7Inspector Timo Harjunpää works on harassment and extortion campaign case against successful computer expert.
Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät
1993
NRBertil is an old man from Norrbotten in Sweden. His brother has just died, and the shipping of the deceased brother turns out to be very expensive. Bertil decides to solve the whole thing in his own way ...
Last Stop
2007
6.8Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint Charlie
Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
2007
6.6Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sent to Sicily on direct order from the Swedish Government. He is sent to negotiate for their release. Hamiltons partner and best friend, Lundwall, is murdered by the Mob. Hamilton is dragged into a bitter and brutal vendetta between himself and the Mob-leader Don Tommaso.
Vendetta
1995
5.3Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, the less he is sure to have known the man he feels so much indebted to...
The Return of the Dancing Master
2004
5.1In summer 1944 Finnish Karelia, Martta hastily marries Aarne before evacuating alongside newborn Hilkka’s family, Helmi Elisa and their grandmother as Soviet forces advance. Amidst chaotic retreat, the women struggle to stay united and fatefully intersect with Aarne and Arttu, but the relentless offensive exacts heavy suffering and loss on both civilians and soldiers.
Hylätyt talot, autiot pihat
2000
Behind the camera
NRWhat happens if one has to make a quick decision that proves wrong? What are the consequences, if one does not meet the requirements one sets for oneself when something unexpected happens? And what if after all this, one finds new qualities in one’s character that force one to reconsider one’s entire self-image?
Of Roads
2015
6.0The Disciple is set in the summer of 1939, when 13-year-old Karl arrives in the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea to work as lighthouse master Hasselbond’s assistant. Hasselbond, however, turns him down because of his young age. Karl struggles desperately to stay on and makes friends with Hasselbond’s oppressed son, Gustaf, but their friendship changes to rivalry and hate when Hasselbond starts to favor Karl over his own son.
The Disciple
2013
3.0A hauntingly beautiful and unusual coming-of-age tale. Set in 1890, Iris's artist mother leaves Stockholm for the summer and sends her 9-year old daughter to stay with an uncle in the Finnish archipelago. The girl learns to play with other children and discovers the joys of friendship in the remote Åland Islands.
Iris
2011