Elsa Turakainen
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Elsa Turakainen.
Born: August 8, 1904
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Known For
Pikku Ilona ja hänen karitsansa
Ilona, an orphan from the cruel Paksula family, ends up in Helsinki at a children's home for immigrants and from there becomes a foster daughter in the Orpana family, where she begins to sort out the relationship between her war-disabled stepbrother Pentti and his girlfriend Irene.
Kultainen vasikka
Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.
Halveksittu
Merchant Iivari encounters significant challenges in his entrepreneurial career when Merthen, a commercial counselor, attempts to prevent his success. Merthen's daughter Verna falls in love with the honest Iivari, who is not acceptable as a son-in-law to the Merthen family.
Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun
A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
Pinsiön parooni
The municipal council of Pinsiö tries to get Taavetti, the 'baron of Pinsiö', to move into a retirement home. However, the baron refuses and flees to Tampere to stay with his nephew Heikki and his wife Liisa. Heikki and his family dream of building their own house, but obtaining a mortgage loan is difficult. Their financial worries deepen when Heikki, as a union representative, has to deal with a strike at his workplace and illegal work practices.
Scandal in the Girls' School
The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the school. In addition to the loosening morals of the students, the warm relationship between two girls is a causing concern.
Pikku Pietarin piha
A little orphan boy is the focus of attention, as well as his stepmother whose special qualities engender a certain mystery around her person – and hint at magical powers.
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.
Ruma Elsa
The boyish, temperamental chemistry student Elsa Kassel disapproves of her mother and sisters running after men, but when she hears that she's referred to as "ugly Elsa", she takes on a transformation. The new, charming Elsa tests her attractiveness on men and causes confusion all the way to her mother's new groom, Professor Harjula.
Akseli and Elina
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.
Filmography
as Maija Sammalsuo
as Alder Henna
as Vuokraemäntä
as Henna Leppänen
as Mrs. Liljeström
as Maija's Mother
as Lyyti Holopainen
as Agda von Sadelheim
as Karoliina
as Kirsti (uncredited)
as Lilli Sorjanen
as Hilja Forslund
as Aino Suominen
as Lady (uncredited)
as Hildur
as Gunilla Lillukka
as Loviisa Niskavuori
as Maalin
as Mrs. Orpana
as Anni (uncredited)
as Mrs. Kampero (uncredited)
as Akviliina
as Mrs. Viiki
as Loviisa
as Selma Vuorinen
as Leena
as Hilda Kantola
as Hilkka
as Sofia Tissari
as Tolka Prtsjenski
as (uncredited)
as Josefiina Pakarinen
as (uncredited)
as Kehrääjä-Liisa
as Vivi Kassel
as Hedvig Björn
as Adlerfeldt
as 'Pampula'
as Mrs. Nilsson (uncredited)
as Keskusneiti Lehtonen
as Aino Suominen
as Aino Suominen
as Alma Halling
as Aino Suominen
as Sofia Blom
as Janitor's wife
as Aino Suominen
as Agnes Kataja
as Aino Suominen
as (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Alma Korpio
as Venla
as Mrs. Laaksonen (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Mrs. Leinjoki (uncredited)
as (uncredited)