Esko Nikkari
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Esko Nikkari (23 November 1938 Lapua, Finland – 17 December 2006 in Seinäjoki, Finland) was a prolific Finnish actor who made more than 70 appearances on film and television. He debuted in 1974 in the movie Karvat.
Nikkari was a workhorse of the Kaurismäki brothers, with whom he first worked on Rikos ja rangaistus in 1983. His last role with Aki Kaurismäki was in Man without a Past in 2002. He starred in the 1994 film Aapo opposite actors such as Taisto Reimaluoto, Ulla Koivuranta and Kai Lehtinen. More recently, he has appeared in a number of Timo Koivusalo films such as Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa (2005), which is the last full-length movie he appeared in.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.008 |
| Birthday | 1938-11-23 |
| Place of Birth | Lapua, Finland |
| Also Known As | Esko Vilhelm Nikkari, |
1986
Shadows in Paradise
7.295/405
Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Il...
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Shadows in Paradise
1990
The Match Factory Girl
7.3/257
Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pre...
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The Match Factory Girl
1984
The Clan: Tale of the Frogs
6.7/9
Young Alex Sammakko has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to th...
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The Clan: Tale of the Frogs
1987
Hamlet Goes Business
6.6/44
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on...
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Hamlet Goes Business
2001
The Rose of the Rascal
6.154/13
The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.
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The Rose of the Rascal
1987
Nonstop
0/0
A revolver changes hands seven times, each time serving a different purpose shot in a film style which tests the traditional story-telling form of fil...
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Nonstop
1982
The Worthless
6.4/24
Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a...
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The Worthless
1986
Lumikit
0/0
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Lumikit
1997
The Minister of State
5/1
A man uses a case of mistaken identity to gain the confidence of a small village, and in the process exposes universal human traits: honour, greed, ho...
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The Minister of State
1992
Goodbye, Trainmen
5.857/14
Small-town boys Vähy and Hapa are best friends who swear an eternal blood oath. As they grow up, however, their paths drift apart and they both find t...
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Goodbye, Trainmen
1983
Crime and Punishment
6.9/76
In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who accidentall...
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Crime and Punishment
1988
Plainlands
6/11
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical ment...
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Plainlands
1986
Päätepysäkki
2/1
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Päätepysäkki
1987
Macbeth
4.5/2
A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotl...
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Macbeth
1983
Koomikko
0/0
Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying...
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Koomikko
1998
A Summer by the River
6.5/14
Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.
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A Summer by the River
1981
Kauhea murhamies Lalli
0/0
TV play about the legend of Lalli.
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Kauhea murhamies Lalli
1987
Farewell, Mr. President
5.9/7
Asko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland, so he thinks that the best way to chan...
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Farewell, Mr. President
2000
Lakeuden kutsu
5.318/11
Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers wit...
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Lakeuden kutsu
1988
Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
5.3/3
Two young lovers, Anna and Martti, are split apart but are reunited many years later when their lives have changed considerably. Anna is a war widow;...
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Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus
1992
Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät
4.417/12
The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons launc...
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Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät
2003
Land of Love
4.8/9
A comedy of a Finnish man who falls in love, gets tangled deeper into a circle of lies and finds out that he has suddenly changed his name, nationalit...
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Land of Love
1989
Dirty Hands
5.3/10
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The cou...
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Dirty Hands
1987
Tilinteko
6/3
Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he refu...
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Tilinteko
1994
Aapo
5/2
Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.
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Aapo
1997
Vaiennut kylä
3.3/3
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Vaiennut kylä
1989
The Winter War
7/80
Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the pr...
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The Winter War
2000
Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha
4.2/15
Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to...
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Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha
1989
Cha Cha Cha
6.7/7
A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American au...
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Cha Cha Cha
1999
Rikos & rakkaus
4/7
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Rikos & rakkaus
1995
The Last Wedding
6.25/16
Pekka arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reached a dead end. T...
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The Last Wedding
1985
Hei kliffaa hei
4.429/7
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Hei kliffaa hei
2002
The Man Without a Past
7.4/374
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost h...
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The Man Without a Past
1994
Kaikki pelissä
5.8/8
A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him...
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Kaikki pelissä
1996
Drifting Clouds
7.6/169
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they mus...
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Drifting Clouds
2005
Shadow of the Eagle
3.2/5
The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictat...
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Shadow of the Eagle
1997
Pekko ja unissakävelijä
3.5/6
Pipsa has fallen prey to a shady scientist Kalevi. Pekko tries to save her.
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Pekko ja unissakävelijä
1993
Pekko aikamiespojan poikamiesaika
2.75/4
Pekko has a crush on Pipsa, a beautiful archeologist.
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Pekko aikamiespojan poikamiesaika
1996
Pekko ja muukalainen
3/4
A Black man arriving in Tyräaho causes consternation among the villagers. Meeri Aavasuo wants an adopted child and to promote the cause, she tries to...
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Pekko ja muukalainen
1995
Pekko ja massahurmaaja
2.6/5
Pekko is jealous when Pipsa is under the spell of the handsome Markku. The children Kalle and Katariina enjoy each other's company. Beauty salon owner...
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Pekko ja massahurmaaja
1994
Pekko ja poika
5/5
A child who is the subject of a custody dispute flees from the social welfare authority from Tyräaho to Helsinki with Pekko. In the capital, the frien...
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Pekko ja poika
1988
Ariel
7.124/344
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
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Ariel
1984
Marked
5.8/7
Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is after...
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Marked
1999
Juha
6.8/62
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
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Juha
1981
Syöksykierre
4/2
Drama set in Stockholm and Helsinki and a village whose existence is threatened by a power plant. A group of young people return to their roots and ar...
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Syöksykierre
1985
The Wrestler
5.917/6
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
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The Wrestler
1984
Niskavuori
6.4/5
Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with his marriage, fall in...
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Niskavuori
2000
Pieni pyhiinvaellus
7/1
In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon aban...
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Pieni pyhiinvaellus
1982
Kahdeksan peiliä
1/1
A 1982 short film from Finland.
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Kahdeksan peiliä
1990
Rampe & Naukkis – kaikkien aikojen superpari
3.6/5
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