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Vappu Jurkka

Vappu Jurkka

1927-11-08
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Viipuri, Finland

Vappu Jurkka (1927–2012) was a Finnish stage, film and television actress. She was the daughter of actors Eino and Emmi Jurkka and sister of actors Sakari and Jussi Jurkka.

Viipuri, Finland

Vappu Jurkka (1927–2012) was a Finnish stage, film and television actress. She was the daughter of actors Eino and Emmi Jurkka and sister of actors Sakari and Jussi Jurkka.

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Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro 1975 (6.2)

Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany.
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Fire-Eater 1998 (5.4)

The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged...
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Badding 2000 (5.3)

The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.