Kotikatu
1995
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Acting
Maria Heiskanen
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Maria Heiskanen (born 1970) is a Finnish actress. She works in cinema, television and theatre.
Heiskanen received her breakthrough role in the 1991 Swedish film Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem directed by Jan Troell. For her role Heiskanen won the Gold Plaque Award in Chicago International Film Festival for the Best Actress in 1992. Heiskanen lived in Sweden during 1993 - 2003 and worked in movies and theatre. She played in Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern and in Riksteatern where she for example performed role of Masja in Anton Chekhovs The Seagull (2008) directed by Lars Norén.
In Finland Heiskanen has worked with Aki Kaurismäki in Lights in the Dusk (2006). She also played in Aleksi Salmenperä's A Man's Work (2007) and was nominated for Jussi Awards from both performances.
In 2008, Heiskanen starred in the leading role of Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments, for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress and the Best Actress Award from Valladolid International Film Festival. The film won the Guldbagge Award for Best Film and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Golden Globe Awards. It also made the January shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards, but wasn't selected as one of the final nominees.
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Filmography
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Solsidan
2010
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The series is named after a small part of Saltsjöbaden called Solsidan. It revolves around Alex and Anna who ar...
Transport
2022
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A journalist traces a microchip found in baby food. A bank manager's mistake ensnares her in a much larger sche...
Fallen Leaves
2023
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In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path...
Sata lasissa
2013
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Lights in the Dusk
2006
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Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury...
Everlasting Moments
2008
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In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a...
Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem
1991
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The film is based on a true occurrence in Sweden in 1988. A Finnish couple murdered a young boy and his parents...
Ravens
2017
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A hard-working farmer, despairing by the harsh reality of his daily struggle, is determined to have his son tak...
Raja
2014
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Man's Job
2007
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Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes...
Faro
2013
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Faro is about a man who flees into the forest with his daughter to escape a prison sentence.
As White as in Snow
2001
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Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer...
All That Matters Is Past
2012
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Reunited after years apart, childhood sweethearts William and Janne are forced to confront the dark secrets of...
Inget Ljus i Tunneln
2011
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The Fire Engine That Disappeared
1993
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A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suic...
Hellsinki
2009
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In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-mar...
Hella W
2011
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The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an in...
The Last Sentence
2012
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Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who trie...
The Longest Day
2020
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Midsummer in Sweden; somewhere above the Arctic Circle. Many curious stories unfold in a small Finnish-speaking...
Open Up to Me
2013
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At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange un...
Apeiron
2013
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Umbra is a scientist who wants to prove his theory that human beings are ruled by chance and devoid of any purp...
Apeiron
2013
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Umbra is a scientist who wants to prove his theory that human beings are ruled by chance and devoid of any purp...
Boy Upside Down
2014
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A Finnish dramedy about an 11-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his parents.
Yövuoro
2005
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Siilijuttu
Short film.