Emma Väänänen
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Emma Väänänen.
Born: December 22, 1907
Place of Birth: Mikkeli, Etelä-Savon maakunta, Finland
Known For
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.
Omena putoaa…
Ilona Jonsson deceives the old industrialist Österberg. He takes pity on the poor girl, who looks like the doppelganger of his dead daughter. Also involved in the plot are Ilona's father, who was supposedly at sea but has just been released from prison, his accomplices Murto-Kalle and Ventti-Ville, a rival criminal gang, and the councilor's relatives, who are guarding their inheritance money.
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.
The Harvest Month
The title of the Finnish film Elokuu translates to August. Directed by Matti Kassila, one of Finland's premiere filmmakers, Elokuu was adapted from a novel by Nobel prize winning finnish author F.E. Sillanpää. Simply put, the story concerns the decline and fall of a once-proud family, thanks to the alcoholism of its paterfamilias. Toivo Makela delivers a powerfully effective performance as the inebriated protagonist, avoiding the usual "drunken" cliches. The overlong running time, coupled with the downbeat nature of the subject, limited the film's worldwide appeal.
Hedelmätön puu
Erkki, a journalist, suffers from epilepsy and agrees to be sterilized in order to marry his fiancée Helena. Unhappy about his infertility, Erkki begins to drink more and more, and eventually Helena returns to Helsinki to continue her studies. There she meets Associate Professor Sysikorpi, who falls hopelessly in love with her.
"Minä elän"
The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.
Kaikkien naisten monni
The military farce, directed by Lasse Pöysti, is based on Joel Laikka's novel. The illiterate Nieminen, who starts his military service through mischief and being tempted by other rookies, causes confusion in the barracks. At the behest of colonel, attempts are made to teach him in different ways - the women of the locality are also interested in teaching. Soon Nieminen will be the competing with sergeant major Vasikainen for the affections of the colonel's cook Vieno.
People in the Summer Night
A story set over one night in a small rural community we watch various relationships and actions among local people; these include birth, death, and conflicts fuelled by alcohol. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside. Lumberjacks, a deer-eyed young man Nokia, a family of poor farmers, a young girl and her lover. New life is born, old life dies, man is slain in his prime, and his widow continues her life.
Riihalan valtias
Anna, the mistress of Riihala, runs the farm while her idle husband drinks and their heir, Antti, courts Elma, a maid from the neighboring farm. Anna hopes that her son will marry Elina, a girl from the Kalteva farm, but she is disappointed.
Näkemiin Helena
A melodrama based on Aino Räsänen's novel of the same name, continuing the story of the Junkker family.
Filmography
as Self
as Loviisa Niskavuori
as Saima Sundvall
as Anna
as Aliina Kivistö
as Hanna Perttula
as Helena Junkkeri
as (uncredited)
as Klaus' Mother
as Loviisa Niskavuori
as Housemaid
as Siiri Tahvanainen (uncredited)
as Huoltosisar
as Lieutenant's widow
as Luhtala's wife
as Mrs. Heino
as Kristina Anger
as Spinster
as Hilja Syrjämäki
as Manageress of Salon Rosita
as Toini Haavisto
as Kekke Petäjä
as Venla Liuhala
as Board Member
as Hanna Palonen
as Loviisa Niskavuori
as Manta Stenvall
as Mrs. Takala
as Annabella
as Ada Ahonen
as Alma (uncredited)
as Irja Malm
as Lea Helpi
as Anna Vainio
as Hanna Salmio
as Mikko's mother
as Kaarina
as Iida Karlsson
as Colonel's Housemaid (uncredited)
as Person at Party (uncredited)
as (uncredited)