Ilkka Mertsola

Movie - 1999, 2h 15m • as Hotellin vastaanottovirkailija (uncredited)

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • as Cook

A typically idiosyncratic mini-mystery about a middle-aged man who gets out of prison, sells his shares in a company and announces that he’s heading off to Siberia to get married. Central scene, in which he convinces a woman to come with him, takes place in a Finnish rockabilly club. The Hitchcockian pacing, as the man endeavours to make his train, supplies nice momentum, and wrap-up provides a satisfying revelation as to what’s actually afoot.