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Matti Pellonpää

Matti Pellonpää

Matti Pellonpää (28 March 1951 in Helsinki – 13 July 1995 in Vaasa) was an award-winning Finnish actor and a musician. They rose to international fame with his roles in both Aki Kaurismäki's and Mika Kaurismäki's films; particularly being a regular in Aki's films, appearing in 18 of them.

They started his career in 1962 as a radio actor at the Finnish state-owned broadcasting company YLE. They performed as an actor during the 70s in many amateur theatres, at the same time that they studied at the Finnish Theatre Academy, where he completed his studies in the year 1977.

He was nominated Best Actor by European Film Academy for his role as Rodolfo in La Vie de Boheme and won the Felix at the European Film Awards in 1992. They also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth.

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Movies Starring Matti Pellonpää (53)

Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla (2013)

Juice Leskinen & Grand Slam live set recorded in 1988. ...

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Bohemian Eyes (2011)

Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää. ...

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Iron Horsemen (1995)

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes. ...

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Pieniä valheita (1994)

The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest's wife and a renovator. ...

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Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses (1994)

After years of fame and misfortune in Mexico, the members of the Leningrad Cowboys decide to return to their native village. Their former manager Vladimir, who now calls himself Moses lead them on their way home. ...

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Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana (1994)

Two Finnish men agree to drive an Estonian woman and a Russian woman to a harbor. ...

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Sutki (1993)

Finnish comedy. ...

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Chaplinesque (1993)

Musical tale of a happy man, whose happiness the Fur King tried to buy. ...

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The Last Border (1993)

One man's quest for revenge in a post-apocalyptic world ...

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La Vie de Bohème (1992)

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise. ...

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Where Is Musette? (1992)

Documentary filmed on-set during the making of Aki Kaurismaki's "La vie de Boheme" ...

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Night on Earth (1991)

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night. ...

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Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine ...

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Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut (1990)

That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance. ...

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Dolly and Her Lover (1990)

Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal activities. Alcoholic Dolly takes Räpsy to live in Kallio, Helsinki, and hopes to move to Paris with her in the spring. ...

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Kumma juttu (1989)

A group of kids goes on an adventure to help their scientist friend. ...

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Dirty Hands (1989)

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. Kaurismäki's TV ada ...

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Paper Star (1989)

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong. ...

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Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band. ...

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Cha Cha Cha (1989)

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He m ...

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Ariel (1988)

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide. ...

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Hamlet Goes Business (1987)

When Hamlet discovers his father's deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber d ...

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Näkemiin, hyvästi (1986)

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implications for the rest of their lives. ...

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Shadows in Paradise (1986)

Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between the ...

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Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan (1986)

A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom. ...

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Rocky VI (1986)

Not to be confused with any of the sequels to Sylvester Stallone's classic Oscar-winning Rocky, this short film from Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki is actually meant as a parody of the late Cold War-era Rocky IV, which saw Stallone's character taking on ...

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Ylösnousemus (1985)

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

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Calamari Union (1985)

A group of men all called Frank—except for one named Pekka—have had enough of life in their working-class neighborhood, so they set off for a better existence in the magical seaside district of Eira. But the way is long, and the group face many hurdles ...

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Viimeiset rotannahat (1985)

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 b ...

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The Clan: Tale of the Frogs (1984)

Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with ...

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Marked (1984)

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 ...

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Se minun töistäni - Matti Pellonpää (1984)

Matti Pellonpää (1951-1995) was one of the most talented Finnish actors of his generation. In Eero Tuomikoski's documentary, we meet Pellonpää in 1984, after Kaurismäki's Arvottomat film, but before his actual big breakthrough. ...

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Aikalainen (1984)

A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky. ...

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Crime and Punishment (1983)

In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who accidentally arrived at the crime scene wants to follow him, but guilt and the tightening net of the police throw a s ...

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The Worthless (1982)

Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Par ...

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Jackpot 2 (1982)

Three young people, two boys and a girl, meet on a Friday evening in an urban post-disaster setting which has brought Helsinki to ruins. The boys' sole purpose of life is to play a Flip-Flop pinball machine. ...

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Pedon merkki (1981)

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone. ...

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The Liar (1981)

Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses. ...

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Ruskan jälkeen (1979)

It follows a year in the life of a family in the North-Eastern part of Finland. From the gloomy days of winter to the Mid Summer wedding festivities. ...

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Viimeinen savotta (1977)

Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol. ...

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Antti Puuhaara (1976)

In 17th-century Pohjola, young Antti Puuhaara is looking for himself, because he has grown up with no knowledge of his childhood. Two actors, the tragedian and the comedian, who were banished from Tsarist Russia to Karelia, had predicted to the crooked mer ...

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Kesän maku (1975)

Liisa, a young nurse returns to a remote island where she has spent the summer leaves in her youth. She soon gets to know some of the regular residents on the island, Pekka and Paula. During the summer party the underlying tensions mount. ...

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Akseli and Elina (1970)

A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people. ...

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Finnish Frustrations (1969)

Dances are ending. Last chance for women and men to find someone. Special prize at Tampere Film Festival 1970. ...

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Movies Made By Matti Pellonpää (4)

Drifting Clouds (1996)

The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided t ...

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Total Balalaika Show (1994)

A 57-minute documentary of a Helsinki concert featuring the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Choir and Ballet, who collaborate on a number of US Rock songs sung in English (like "Sweet Home, Alabama") as well as more traditional Russian songs ...

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Hamlet Goes Business (1987)

When Hamlet discovers his father's deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber d ...

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... And You Will Be a Clown (1985)

Just when Julia is going to finish her horse drawing, her mother goes to the shop and leaves Julia to watch over her little brother Jonni. Then Julia dreams that when she grows up, she will have her very own circus horse, Josafat. ...

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