Eeva-Maija Haukinen
Acting
Biography
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Born: February 3, 1944
Place of Birth: Oulu, Finland
Known For
The Wedding Waltz
Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.
My Husband's Wife
When a successful businessman is rushed to hospital after suffering a massive stroke, a decades-long double life is revealed: two women appear at his bedside claiming to be his wife and the mother of his child.
The Rose of the Rascal
The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.
When the Heavens Fall…
A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
Star Boys
Through the eyes of two 12-year-old boys, the sexual revolution arrives in a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland.
Lakeuden kutsu
Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi. Erkki misses his wife Kaisu, who back in the day stayed in Finland, and his child, but will the man be forgiven for years of absence?
Gracious Curves
A fluid documentary in which director Luostarinen interviews fifty women on birth, body image, and the harshness of contemporary attitudes toward physicality, aging, and inevitable death. The focus is on female bodies, their variety, and the prejudices, processes, and living to which they - and the souls within them - are subjected.
The Wrestler
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
Fire-Eater
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...
Little Sister
Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryman bound to be released from service. In the same time, she dates old school friend Eero who even goes AWOL to be near her. As the war continues, Katri has to make difficult decisions about her life.
Filmography
as Mummi
as Irene
as Tyyne, Marja's mother
as Aila Honkala
as Kirsti Hammarberg
as Ilta
as Hilkka Hopeavuori, Kaisun äiti
as Woman in Bomb Shelter
as Godmother
as Narrator (voice)
as Kaisa Virtanen
as Kaija Tähtelä
as Paavon anoppi
as Sukulaisnainen
as rouva Maire Jortikka
as Hoitaja
as Arto's Mother
as Olga Rättyä
as lääkintävoimistelija Eila Elina Tuomi