Ville Salminen
Directing
Biography
Ville Salminen (1908–1992) was a Finnish film director, screenwriter, art director and actor who specialised in playing villains.
Born: October 2, 1908
Place of Birth: Maarianhamina, Finland
Known For
Hiipivä vaara
A man mixed up in suspicious activity is murdered in the studio of photographer Ilmari Lavio. At the same time a charming woman has entered the studio, but Lavio does not want to report her to the police. The photographer begins to follow the beauty who calls herself Soile Mäntymaa and through her traces a league of spies.
Kyökin puolella
A romantic story about a rich girl, who is not used to household work, charms many men while working in the "Haukka" manor. The reason for this undercover work is a bet. Despite being a bad cook she soon becomes attracted to engineer Karma.
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 Clan: Tale of the Frogs
Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakko's, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakkos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps.
Laivan kannella
Young sailor Arvi falls in love with a dance girl Kerttu in a Spanish tavern, who says that she is half-Finnish and wants to go find her real father.
Lentävä kalakukko
After a robbery, a gang of bandits led by Kulaus-Ramperi flees Helsinki on the Kuopio express train "Lentävä kalakukko" and tries to hide in the crowded train filled with music and singing. The cheerful conductor Saastamoinen protects the motley crew traveling on the train.
Ihmemies
Olli Ruusunen attended a special training course in the US, where his brain capacity has been developed to the extreme.
Tytön huivi
Young Affu sets off to travel around the summer countryside, hoping to find himself a bride. He carries with him an engagement scarf given to him by his mother, which he promises to the farmer's daughter Milda, until he meets the mysterious gypsy girl Marketa.
Rakkauden risti
The daughter of a lighthouse keeper runs away with a shipwrecked businessman to the city. But instead of her dreams, she ends up selling herself in the streets, until a painter finds her as an ideal model for his next painting. In English known as Cross of Love.
Asfalttilampaat
A story of a doomed young love in a small narrow-minded town.
Filmography
as Vanha-Aleksanteri Sammakko
as Mr. Pelli
as Granlund
as Kirill Vladimirovitš
as Ville Salminen
as Frederico (uncredited)
as Bertil
as Vilho Rötkö 'Viski-Ville' (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Mikko
as Don José
as Henry Williams / Eetu Viljakka
as 'Synkkä'
as Håkansson (uncredited)
as Mänty
as Mauri Holmberg
as Buksjevinsky
as Andersson
as Hakim
as don Rodrigo Cortez
as Santa Rosa
as Antti Rajapalo
as Jali Martema
as Keijo Terä
as Sergei Vasiljev
as Kalle (uncredited)
as Osmo Neva
as Ivan (uncredited)