Arja Niska

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Known For & Full Filmography11 Titles

#1Ristikon varjossa

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
Drama

Lauri and Anna are released from prison. They run into trouble when they cannot find work because of their past. Lauri obtains false identity papers, which enable him to get a job at a factory. A dangerous criminal named Asseri begins blackmailing Lauri, who is using the alias "Pentti Tahvana." Lauri's true identity is revealed in connection with the murder of Kaalep, the factory's night watchman.

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#2Pikku pelimanni

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
DramaMusicFamily

Unemployed Anna leaves her son Olavi to be raised by Antti, a shoemaker. When the shoemaker dies, Olavi is sent to an orphanage, from which he runs away with a cat and a violin under his arm. After many misfortunes, the talented Olavi becomes a student of a professor at a music academy and travels to London to compete in an international violin competition.

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#3Kulkurin valssi

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.3 / 10
Romance

St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him.

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#4SF-paraati

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.2 / 10
ComedyMusicRomance

A love story between a taxi driver and a travel guide in the form of a musical.

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#5Helmikuun manifesti

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
DramaHistory

February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.

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#6Sylvi

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

9.0 / 10
Drama

18-year-old orphan Sylvi is unable to refuse the marriage proposal made by her guardian, Aksel. The young wife is unhappy with her elderly husband and loves her childhood friend Viktoria instead. Sylvi sinks into despair when Aksel refuses to grant her a divorce.

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#7Lapseni on minun…

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

10.0 / 10
Drama

Elsa lives in a childless marriage. But she longs for a baby. She is drawn to a man that could be the father of her long awaited child.

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#8Nummisuutarit

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyHistory

In the comedy set in Etelä-Hämee in the middle of the 19th century, Esko, the son of a cobbler, goes with the speaker Mikko Vilkastu to find a bride for himself from Karri's adopted daughter, Crete. However, not everything goes according to plan.

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#9Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
DramaHistory

A poet finds a new muse in young woman.

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#10Rantasuon raatajat

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
DramaHistory

Taavetti, the young master of Rantasuo, refuses to give up, even though frost destroys his harvest, a crooked logger steals his forest money, and a dishonest bailiff takes away his freedom. The innocent Taavetti is sent to prison, and the indebted Rantasuo farm is put up for auction. The determined swamp clearer fights for his life, his loved ones, and his land.

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#11Onnellinen ministeri

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
ComedyRomance

An artist bases a painting for a revealing lingerie ad on a photo of a girl he had found torn from a magazine, not knowing that the girl is in fact the daughter of the Finnish minister of finance. A scandal is about to erupt, and the artist is given 48 hours to find a strikingly similar-looking female model who could serve as his alibi. The minister's daughter decides to fool the artist by pretending to be a lowly girl of the streets, whom the artist then recruits as his "model".

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