Leevi Linko

Acting
1908-02-16
Turku, Finland

Known For & Full Filmography22 Titles

#1Amor hoi!

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Editor

6.0 / 10
ComedyRomance

Master Tuula Vihervo teaches languages ​​at a women's college, where American-Finnish Charles Thompson Jr arrives to do an inspection on behalf of his father's college donor. The arrival of a guest and Tuula's infatuation causes a stir inside the college and in a restaurant in Helsinki, where Tuula starts performing as the singer Irina Meller.

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#2Elinan surma

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Uoti

8.0 / 10
DramaHistory

Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart Uolevi, and to marry Klaus Kurki, a local nobleman with money and influence. An ideal match according to her family and the greedy parish priest, but all is not as it seems: Kurki is a vicious man, tormented by the spirit of his last wife.

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#3Niskavuoren Heta

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Drama

Heta, the strong-willed daughter of the Niskavuori family, who is pregnant, marries Akusti, a farmhand, and remains bitter toward Santeria, who broke her heart. Heta and Akusti begin their life together on the modest Muumäki farm, where they are assisted by their loyal maid Siipirikko.

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#4Here, Beneath the North Star

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Artturi Yllö

6.8 / 10
HistoryDrama

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.

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#5Sven Tuuva the Hero

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Juho

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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#6The Unknown Soldier

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Sinkkonen

7.2 / 10
DramaWar

It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.

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#7The Doll Merchant

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

6.2 / 10
FantasyDrama

A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.

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#8Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen

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

7.0 / 10
Drama

Schoolboy Klaus is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and difficulties he keeps up his studies under the supervision of the grim Master Kahari.

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#9Meidän poikamme ilmassa – me maassa

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m as Pekka

5.0 / 10
DramaDocumentary

A documentary or rather a bulletin style movie about Finnish Air Forces in the 1930s.

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#10Niskavuoren Aarne

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

6.4 / 10
Drama

Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In chronological order of the Niskavuori series, the film is the fourth. Aarne has married Ilona and left the house in Niskavuori, which he hosts, where his former wife Martta still lives, while the old mistress is holding the reins. Aarne and Ilona live in Helsinki, but Aarne has not been able to completely break away from Niskavuori, but keeps secretly in touch with the headmaster and gives instructions on the farm management.

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#11Laulava sydän

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
DramaComedy

Bank clerk Aarno Harjus is dismissed from his job due to false criminal allegations, and at the same time his wife leaves him. With the help of his friend, Detective Inspector Erä, Harjus gets the opportunity to appear on the radio under the pseudonym Con Amore. Like many other women, nurse Rauni also becomes interested in the handsome singer.

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#12Varsovan laulu

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

7.8 / 10
DramaCrime

A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.

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#13Silja – nuorena nukkunut

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.6 / 10
DramaRomance

In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a number of bachelors, ranging from simple farmhand Väinö to sophisticated young student Armas whom she meets when working for a charming old professor. However, Silja's health starts to deteriorate, and when the Finnish Civil War breaks up in 1918, she is inadvertently involved in a small incident after which her loyalties are questioned by both the Reds and the Whites.

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#14Kunnioittaen

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

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Elmeri Vara from the General Stabilization Party, Selma Vuorinen from the Free Enlightenment Party, and Irja Solanen from the Independent Women's Party are competing for seats in parliament. When young Pertti and his classmates start a campaign with caricatures against Vara and Vuorinen, whom they consider unfit, Principal Reino has to decide whether to support the parliamentary candidates or his students, and how he feels about the candidacy of his beloved Irja.

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#15Yhden yön hinta

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
DramaCrime

The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.

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#16Katarina kaunis leski

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.7 / 10
ComedyRomanceHistory

1790 Turku. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus Schildt.

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#17Lentävä kalakukko

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

6.3 / 10
ComedyMusic

After a robbery, a gang of bandits led by Kulaus-Ramperi flees Helsinki on the Kuopio express train "Lentävä kalakukko" and tries to hide in the crowded train filled with music and singing. The cheerful conductor Saastamoinen protects the motley crew traveling on the train.

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#18Pikku suorasuu

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Doctor

10.0 / 10
DramaFamily

Iris Klewe is brought from her forest cottage by her bank-manager uncle Kaarlo Heinonen to attend school in Helsinki, where his wife and elder children resent the poor foster girl while only the youngest child and the cook show her kindness. Kaarlo’s financial troubles start to threaten Iris’s inheritance.

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#19Niskavuori taistelee

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

5.9 / 10
Drama

The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.

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#20Herra sotaministeri

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

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Kalle, a shy and absent-minded civil servant at the comparison agency, unwittingly becomes Minister of War. He receives help in his new role from Maria, the daughter of Finance Minister Karpio. Problems in the performance of his duties lead Kalle to a court martial, and he resigns from his ministerial post to start a new life with his neighbor Leena.

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#21Se alkoi sateessa

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

9.0 / 10
ComedyCrime

Vuokko takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a fishing hut and meets a mysterious man whom she suspects is the smuggler Rompan Eetu. Instead of reporting him, Vuokko decides to follow him to Helsinki to the smugglers' hideout on the condition that he agrees to turn himself and his comrades in to the police.

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#22Ruusu ja kulkuri

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Juhani Kokko

8.0 / 10
DramaMusicHistory

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey from a crier boy from Liminga to an international singing star, Aappo never forgets his first love Katri, who faithfully waits in Liminga for his return.

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