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Arvi Järvinen

Acting
1913-08-28
Lapinjärvi, Finland

Known For & Full Filmography18 Titles

#1Rakkaus kahleissa

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Worker (uncredited)

9.0 / 10
DramaCrime

A lock factory worker Pertti would like to marry his girlfriend Verna, but fears they don't have enough money. His brother Martti is a member of a youth gang that is planning a robbery with three other young men. When the boys have to flee at the time of the robbery, Pertti who secretly shadowed them sees an opportunity to solve his money problem.

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#2Miriam

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

4.9 / 10
Drama

After her aunts death, young Miriam gets a position with the Allnes family. They have a son, Hans. Miriam and Hans fall in love. But the Hans mother is jealous and disapprove.

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#3Pikku pelimannista viulun kuninkaaksi

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Arvi Järvinen (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
DramaFamily

After ending up in an orphanage, Olavi sets out to find his mother. While playing the violin on the street, his exceptional talent catches the attention of a music school professor, who takes him under his wing.

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#4Kultamitalivaimo

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
Comedy

Two conservative men are surprised when they find out that their wives are actually athletes.

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#5Hei, rillumarei!

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyMusic

Traveler Severi travels to Helsinki to enjoy some culture, where he meets Sinikka and Simo, who run a buying and selling business. At a customs auction, he buys a painting that businessman Kehveli and his assistants also have their eyes on.

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#6Kaks' tavallista Lahtista

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

4.3 / 10
ComedyMusic

The musical comedy tells the story of two friends about Usko and Toivo, both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.

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#7Hän varasti elämän

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
DramaCrime

A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves to a small rural village to start a new life with a new name and his new money, but finds that it's harder to escape his past than he thought it would be.

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#8Sven Tuuva the Hero

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
WarDrama

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.

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#9Scandal in the Girls' School

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyHistory

The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the school. In addition to the loosening morals of the students, the warm relationship between two girls is a causing concern.

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#10Isäntä soittaa hanuria

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

4.7 / 10
Comedy

In the remote village of Hurula, the mistress of the house has forbidden her henpecked husband from enjoying himself and playing the accordion. The ceremonious host Ernesti courts the Hurulas' daughter Pirkko to be his wife. However, she falls in love with the village's new cantor Pelle, but multiple misunderstandings have completely complicated matters.

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#11Kertokaa se hänelle…

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

9.0 / 10
Drama

Mauno, an orphan boy, moves from the countryside to Tampere to live with his foster parents, Iida and Eero, who support him in his music studies. As an adult, Mauno travels to Helsinki to search for Helena, a Karelian girl he rescued during the war, who is studying violin. At first, the girl does not recognize Mauno, but a joint concert changes the situation.

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#12Älä nuolase…

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
Comedy

Poor service station workers Jaakko and Timo think they have won the lottery jackpot. The men are already making big plans when it turns out that the prize is actually worthless. Posing as American oil millionaires, the men get caught up in a web of deception.

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#13Preludes to Ecstasy

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

4.5 / 10
DramaRomance

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.

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#14Pekka Puupää

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Mies kaupassa (uncredited)

5.1 / 10
Comedy

Pete and Runt set up a kindergarten at their home, and unknowingly end up taking care of a kidnapped baby.

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#15Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
Comedy

Justiina Puupää drives her husband Pekka and his friend Pätkä to look for work. The two decide to make money the easy way and try to have an accident after first getting accident insurance. After trying their luck, they hurt their heads and in the hospital, the comrades see each other's more outrageous antics.

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#16Autuas eversti

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Colonel Carolus von Haestman, presumed dead by his family, awakens from his deathbed and sets out to find his childhood sweetheart, Amelie. His children and grandchildren, in turn, set out to find the runaway lovers. In the end, the funeral turns into a wedding and honeymoon.

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#17Opettajatar seikkailee

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

4.8 / 10
Comedy

An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagrin. She is intent on keeping the painting out of circulation by stealing it from an art gallery, but the aftermath turns out to be more complex than she anticipated, leading Leena to become involved in various misunderstandings featuring a gang of criminals, inept cops and false murder charges among other things.

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#18Jengi

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
Drama

Paavo and Eeva, two young people who have moved from the countryside to the city, meet a gang led by Kalle, who spend their time loitering and committing petty crimes. A fateful evening on a motorboat irrevocably changes the young people's lives.

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