Ekke Hämäläinen
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Ekke Hämäläinen.
Born: February 14, 1922
Place of Birth: Mikkeli, Finland
Known For
The Unknown Soldier
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
Evakko
Evakko is a portrayal of Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939/40 and the associated evacuations in different parts of the country. It tells the story of a Karelian family along with their whole village who were forced to leave their homes because of the war. The film has a surprisingly perky tone for the subject matter.
Silmät hämärässä
A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.
Here, Beneath the North Star
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
The Bridal Wreath
A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.
Särkelä itte
The self-assured manager Julius Särkelä maintains strict discipline in his office and at home, which is experienced by his daughter Saara and her suitor Martti, as well as the landlord Heroja, who is chasing his debts, and even the cat belonging to the patron Fallsten. Dr. Kosonen softens the stern leader by giving a speech at a party, which ultimately revolutionizes Särkelä's worldview.
Rottasota
A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling establishment is also taken under the inspection. The daughter of the prime minister and her relation to the son of another minister of opposing party is especially under surveillance.
Sven Tuuva the Hero
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
Niskavuori taistelee
The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.
Tyttö tuli taloon
Hitchhiking girls Eila and Tilly end up at screenwriter Saku's summer house by mistake, thinking it's their cousin's.
Filmography
as Carl Wallen
as ministeri Arvo Mäkinen
as Ström
as Albert
as Turpeinen's lawyer
as (uncredited)
as Weber
as Arthur
as Markku
as Sotilasvirkailija
as (uncredited)
as Pioneeri (uncredited)
as Lillian's date
as Doctor
as Jaakko Perälä
as (uncredited)
as Karl-Erik Grahn
as Per
as Martin von Tandenskiöld, "Martti"
as Timo Muura
as The Athlete
as Karl-Erik Grahn
as Bertil Carénius
as Erkki Kovalinna
as Paul Hanneborg
as Asko Kari
as Martti Fallsten
as Pauli