Esko Nikkari
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Esko Nikkari (23 November 1938 Lapua, Finland – 17 December 2006 in Seinäjoki, Finland) was a prolific Finnish actor who made more than 70 appearances on film and television. He debuted in 1974 in the movie Karvat. Nikkari was a workhorse of the Kaurismäki brothers, with whom he first worked on Rikos ja rangaistus in 1983. His last role with Aki Kaurismäki was in Man without a Past in 2002. He starred in the 1994 film Aapo opposite actors such as Taisto Reimaluoto, Ulla Koivuranta and Kai Lehtinen. More recently, he has appeared in a number of Timo Koivusalo films such as Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa (2005), which is the last full-length movie he appeared in. Description above from the Wikipedia article Esko Nikkari, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Shadows in Paradise
as Nikander's Co-WorkerNikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when...
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Ariel
as Car DealerAfter the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for...
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The Winter War
as Yrjö 'Ylli' AlanenRussia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of...
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The Match Factory Girl
as StepfatherIris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of...
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Crime and Punishment
as Inspector PennanenIn Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that...
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Drifting Clouds
as Restaurant ManagerThe ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband,...
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The Man Without a Past
as Bank RobberArriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously...
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Hamlet Goes Business
as PoloniusWhen Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle...
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Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha
as Sakari PiippoTwo men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it...
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Juha
as Police ChiefA farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker,...
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Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
as Johtaja ravintolassaTwo young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their...
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Dirty Hands
as KarskyA political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is...
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Pieni pyhiinvaellus
as PappiIn a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a...
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Land of Love
as Lakeuden ristin suntioA comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds...
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Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät
as Pohjalainen perheenpääThe Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States...
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Plainlands
as PaavoBased on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's...
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Aapo
as maanviljelysneuvosFinland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil...
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A Summer by the River
as HannesKuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old...
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The Worthless
as HarströmManne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal...
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The Rose of the Rascal
as VäiskiThe life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.
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Cha Cha Cha
as PolicemanA lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to...
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The Last Wedding
as Jalmari Pesonen / Grim Reaper (voice)Pekka arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the...
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Kaikki pelissä
as LouhelaA film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's...
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The Clan: Tale of the Frogs
as PoliisietsiväYoung Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them...
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Niskavuori
as Nikulan isäntäIlona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of...
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Syöksykierre
as KaleviDrama set in Stockholm and Helsinki and a village whose existence is threatened by a power...
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Macbeth
as EinariA Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a...
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Pekko ja massahurmaaja
as Reino,PoliisiPekko is jealous when Pipsa is under the spell of the handsome Markku. The children Kalle and...
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Lakeuden kutsu
as Paavo HakalaBusinessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal...
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Pekko ja muukalainen
as Reino Kuovi, poliisiA Black man arriving in Tyräaho causes consternation among the villagers. Meeri Aavasuo wants an...
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The Wrestler
as HinausautokuskiAn ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of...
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Shadow of the Eagle
as Aaro's fatherThe story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced...
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Pekko aikamiespojan poikamiesaika
as Reino,PoliisiPekko has a crush on Pipsa, a beautiful archeologist.
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Goodbye, Trainmen
as Trainman Kauno SaarioSmall-town boys Vähy and Hapa are best friends who swear an eternal blood oath. As they grow up,...
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Pekko ja unissakävelijä
as Reino Kuovi, PoliisiPipsa has fallen prey to a shady scientist Kalevi. Pekko tries to save her.
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Pekko ja poika
as Reino,PoliisiA child who is the subject of a custody dispute flees from the social welfare authority from...
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The Minister of State
as DommerA man uses a case of mistaken identity to gain the confidence of a small village, and in the...
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Farewell, Mr. President
as Businessman at the RestaurantAsko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are...
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Nonstop
as BooksellerA revolver changes hands seven times, each time serving a different purpose shot in a film style...
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Koomikko
as PotilasAspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He...
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Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood
as PatologiKylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television...
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Eight Deadly Shots
as 6. PoliisiSmall-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. The...
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Lentsu
as Autoilija Toivo KesseliInfluenza virus wreaks havoc in Finnish common people. Eventually, the virus ends up on motorist...
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The Winter War
as Yrjö ”Ylli” AlanenPekka Parikka's The Winter War film edited as a five-part TV series.
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