
Tom Wentzel
Acting
Biography
Tom Wentzel is a Finnish actor and singer who also regularly performs in live theater productions at the Helsinki City Theater. He has appeared in the television series Rauta-aika and Hovimäki as well as several films, most notably as the leading man of the Hungarian-Finnish binational production of Tullivapaa avioliitto (English: 'Duty Free Marriage').
Born: September 9, 1947
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Known For

Team Ahma
Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service.

Family Time
A Finnish family gathers together to spend time at grandparents’. When the night goes on, we realize that this is how things always go. With a warm and subtly humorous gaze, the film looks closely at the unspoken structures and norms inside a family.

Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood
Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja as they tackle with personal life problems and try to keep their relationship purely professional.

Nuoruuteni savotat
Lumberjacking is a second part of saga about young author, Kalle Päätalo. It's a story about growing up and becoming a storyteller in hard times when their father was in the forced labour camp. He was a lunatic.

Kaverille ei jätetä

Beyond the Front Line
A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns' infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syväri to the Karelian Isthmus where they faced some of the most grueling battles against the Soviet Union.

Family Time
It’s Christmas time and the family has gathered. Everything goes on as it did the previous Christmases, with grandpa drinking too much and grandma trying to keep everyone in the mood. After the Christmas holidays, everyone returns to their own homes until it's time to gather again, this time for a funeral.

Tie naisen sydämeen
Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman, who claims that she is being kept there by force. Penttilä starts to investigate the case and he ends up in to a little town named Järvensuu. There he drifts in to a conflict with the local mob.

The Age of Iron
Rauta-aika (The Age of Iron) is a dramatic four-part miniseries completed in 1982 by Finnish broadcast network Yle TV2. The production attempts to adapt the national epic of Finland, the Kalevala, for the television audience by way of humanizing the mythological characters whose thoughts and actions drive the narrative. The protagonists of Rauta-aika, Väinö, Ilmari and Lemminki, have been inspired by the tales in the Kalevala and go in search of a woman, eventually finding themselves at war with the Nordic people, and in the end pay dearly for their pursuits.

Poet and Muse
Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz and later muse, poetess L. Onerva. His friends include equally central figures of the Finnish cultural scene in the early 1900s, such as painters Halonen and Gallén-Kallela, and composer Sibelius.
Filmography
as Lasse
as Reader
as Asianajaja Matsson
as Jani-Matti Sorjonen
as Simon
as Kaitsu
as Björn Sund
as Saksalainen
as Viktor Bööm
as Johtaja
as Leif Lunden
as Håkan
as Pertti, Raisa's husband
as Reader (voice)
as Juntunen
as Martin Ahlvik
as Johan Kukkola
as Lemminki
as Helmut von Stein
as Freyan rakastaja