Samuli Edelmann

Acting

Samuli Edelmann

Born 1968-07-21 · Pori, Finland

Samuli Edelmann is a Finnish actor and singer. He graduated from the Theatre Academy of Finland in 1991. At the same year he rose to fame as a singer with his song "Pienestä kii" and was a candidate for the Eurovision song contest with his song "Peggy. His breakthrough role was in Goodbye Trainmen in 1992.

Acting credits

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol poster
7.1

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

2011

Frozen Land poster
6.8

When 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

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

95 poster
4.5

Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.

95

2017

The Girl King poster
6.2

A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.

The Girl King

2015

The Tough Ones poster
6.2

The Tough Ones tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail.

The Tough Ones

1999

The Violin Player poster
5.9

A celebrated violin player, Karin, has to end her stellar career after a car accident makes her fingers stop working their magic. She starts teaching students who are twenty years younger than her, only to find herself falling in love with Antti, one of her students. They are not an easy match, both being passionate about the music and overly ambitious about their careers.

The Violin Player

2018

No artwork available
8.0

Tiina, who works at a hamburger bar, responds to a newspaper ad placed by a middle-aged man. She agrees to become the object of the florist's passions in exchange for money. When Pera, a man of the same age, enters Tiina's life, the situation becomes complicated.

Hyväntekijä

1990

Winners and Losers poster
4.8

Fredrik, the single father of Magda, is too occupied with his race horse Kisa to see that his daughter has problems in school. But one day Magda brings home a new friend, Helena, caller at the local bingo hall. Fredrik is soon smitten by the frank and outspoken 29-year-old. Helena and a self-confident Magda help Fredrik to see why his horse never wins the races.

Winners and Losers

2005

Road North poster
5.9

A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.

Road North

2012

Restless poster
5.1

Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina, something unexpected happens – he falls in love.

Restless

2000

Me and Morrison poster
4.3

A bittersweet tale of a love affair between two people whose lives seem to have lost all direction. The female lead, Milla, is drifting aimlessly through life until she meets Aki. They fall in love - but happiness in a relationship shadowed by crime and drugs is not necessarily a given. The movie is based on the novel Minä ja Morrison by first-time author Kata Kärkkäinen

Me and Morrison

2001

Home Sweet Home poster
6.2

A story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones.

Home Sweet Home

2011

Vares: Private Eye poster
6.2

On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.

Vares: Private Eye

2004

The Look of a Killer poster
5.9

Viktor Kärppä was forced involuntarily in the middle of Russia's internal power struggle. Soon bunch of assassins as well as Security Police are trying to catch Kärppä. Kärppä's family is also in great danger. In order to save themselves and their families they need to resort to Kärppäs friend, the police Korhonen , as well as his brother Aleksei.

The Look of a Killer

2016

The South poster
4.7

A comedy of crime, romance and deception played out against the background of a vacation under the Mediterranean sun.

The South

2000

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Uimataidoton

1988

The Last Ones poster
4.5

Tundra of Lapland, Finland. Rupi, a young man who fills his days dealing and drinking, works in a mine hoping to raise enough money to escape the desolate village where he lives.

The Last Ones

2020

Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus poster
5.2

Two 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

Cargo poster
4.9

A young backpacker gets into some trouble in Africa and stows away on a cargo ship heading to Europe.

Cargo

2006

Princess poster
5.8

Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.

Princess

2010

Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni poster
4.8

Relations between Sweden and Finland come to near breaking point. When further negotiations led by President Mara fail, Sergeant Körmy interferes in the course of events.

Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni

1994

Above Dark Waters poster
6.2

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear.

Above Dark Waters

2013

Johan Falk: National Target poster
6.6

Frank Wagner goes deeper undercover to infiltrate Europe's most dangerous Mafia, the Russian-est, consisting of ex - KGB officers.

Johan Falk: National Target

2009