Joonas Saartamo
Joonas Saartamo, born in Helsinki in 1980, is among the finest actors in Finland today. Joonas graduated from Helsinki Theatre Academy in 2012. He is known from the movies One-Way Ticket to Mombasa (2002), Beauty and the Bastard (2005), Silence (2011), The Mine (2016), The happiest day in the life of Olli Mäkiand (2016), which won the film award Un Certain Regard in Cannes. In televison he is known from the series; Pelkovaara (2004), Protectors (2008) and Welcome To Texas, season 1 (2017). The second series of Welcome To Texas will be screened in spring 2019. Jonaas has one of the major supporting roles in the film success and classic story The Unknown Solider, which premiered in 2017. Based on this story and edited material, a TV series will be screened in 2019. He will appear in a movie being released soon - Bayoneta - a boxing drama. Saartamo won the Jussi Statue in 2011 (The Finnish Oscar) for the best male actor in a leading role and has been nominated twice, once as the best male actor in a supporting role and once as best male in a leading role. Joonas is also known as the hip-hop artist Jonde, previously known as Alarik. in 2019, Joonas will play the role of Richard Wagner in the movie The Zurich Liaison
Unknown Soldier
as LahtinenThe film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union,...
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Attack on Finland
as Falcon PilotThe reception for Finland's Independence Day is rudely interrupted when the presidential palace...
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1944 The Final Defence
as LääkintämiesThe Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944,...
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The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
as BoxerSummer 1962 and Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing....
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Opponent
as CoachIn the aftermath of a devastating rumor, Iman and his family have been forced to flee Iran. As...
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The Mine
as Jussi KarevuoA young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental...
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Jill, Joy and the Mysterious Stranger
as Mr. VaaksanheimoA film based on the popular children's books by Marjatta Kurenniemi about the exploits of Jill...
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Gloriously Wasted
as Juha BergJuha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't...
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Fanatics
as KomentajaA buddy comedy about a fanatic small town football supporter who falls in love with a perfect...
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Game Over
as HarriA movie inspired by a true crime - the coldblooded Heino double murder, committed by a group of...
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Beauty and the Bastard
as KondisModern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up...
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Silence
as Eino LahtelaA drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was...
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Bayonet
as RemuMiguel “Bayoneta” Galíndez is a retired boxer from Tijuana who finds himself living in a cramped...
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Laughing Matters
as TommiRecently unemployed and feeling a little bit lost, Maria takes part in stand-up class and ends...
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Itty Bitty Princess
as uncreditedWhen the anarchistic princess of her own life, Princess Itty Bitty is told that her little...
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Jill and Joy's Winter
as Mr. VaaksanheimoJill and Joy (both 9) live in their own house like any other little girls, except that they...
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Rolli and the Secret of All Time
as Siili Suhonen (voice)Rolli and little elf girl Juniper along with the rest of the rollis and other strange creatures...
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Headfirst
as Saken poikaHeadfirst is a black comedy about a single mother with anger management problems and her teenage...
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Resistant
as Arndt Pekurinen (voice)Documentary film about Arndt Pekurinen and the peace movement in the early 20th century....
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One-Way Ticket to Mombasa
as JusaPete loses his consciousness while playing in a pop band. The diagnosis is harsh and the doctor...
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Fjällnäs
as YannickAn eco-artist embarks on a trip to a symposium in remote Sweden, herself the keynote figure....
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The Night Thief
as HeikkiThe Night Thief is a warmhearted drama set in the suburbs of Helsinki, Finland. It tells the...
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Carrier
as LeoJanika takes advantage of her pregnancy by smuggling amphetamine from Tallinn to Helsinki with...
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Onni von Sopanen
as Pizza boy11-year-old Onni is struck with the idea that his parents aren't his biological parents.
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Gimme Some Respect
as KassuYoung Siiri is starting her life on her own. She wants to be independent and live a normal life,...
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The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love
as uncreditedRichard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her...
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Nurses
as ElielLike good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command...
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White Lines
as Finnish GuyZoe Walker leaves her quiet life behind to investigate her brother's disappearance in Ibiza,...
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Thicker Than Water
as ChaufförThe beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by...
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Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood
as Rami YleniusKylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television...
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Unknown Soldier
as LahtinenThe Unknown Soldier miniseries expands the story of the 2017 film of the same name. The World...
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Utö
as HenriAn idyllic island in the Finnish Archipelago is suddenly cut off from outside world, as a...
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The Hired Hand
as JaskaA man in his 40s hires a handyman to help out with his daily chores. Soon, he finds himself in...
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Munkkivuori
as Markku MäättäIn early 1980s a young child disappears. The lack of police support pushes the concerned parents...
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Mister8
as VerttiThere are enough love and surprises in Maria's relationships. And no wonder, because she has a...
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Welcome to Texas
as TumeA married couple leading a criminal organization specialized in smuggling ends up in the middle...
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Forgiven
as MikkoForgiven is a realistic miniseries with dense atmosphere, based on Laura Manninen's novel....
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