Esko Nikkari

Esko Nikkari

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Esko Nikkari, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Esko Nikkari
  • Popularity: 2.344
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1938-11-23
  • Place of Birth: Lapua, Finland
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  • Also Known As: Esko Vilhelm Nikkari
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Esko Nikkari Movies

  • 1986
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    Shadows in Paradise

    Shadows in Paradise

    7.296 1986 HD

    Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets...

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  • 1990
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    The Match Factory Girl

    The Match Factory Girl

    7.3 1990 HD

    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...

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  • 1984
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    The Clan: Tale of the Frogs

    The Clan: Tale of the Frogs

    6.6 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Hamlet Goes Business

    Hamlet Goes Business

    6.6 1987 HD

    When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a...

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  • 2001
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    The Rose of the Rascal

    The Rose of the Rascal

    6 2001 HD

    The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.

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  • 1987
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    Nonstop

    Nonstop

    1 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    The Worthless

    The Worthless

    6.2 1982 HD

    Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from...

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  • 1986
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    Lumikit

    Lumikit

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1997
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    The Minister of State

    The Minister of State

    5 1997 HD

    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,...

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  • 1992
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    Goodbye, Trainmen

    Goodbye, Trainmen

    5.8 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 1983
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    Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    6.86 1983 HD

    In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who...

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  • 1988
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    Plainlands

    Plainlands

    5.8 1988 HD

    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...

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  • 1986
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    Päätepysäkki

    Päätepysäkki

    2 1986 HD

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  • 1987
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    Macbeth

    Macbeth

    4.5 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1983
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    Koomikko

    Koomikko

    1 1983 HD

    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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  • 1998
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    A Summer by the River

    A Summer by the River

    6.5 1998 HD

    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...

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  • 1981
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    Kauhea murhamies Lalli

    Kauhea murhamies Lalli

    1 1981 HD

    TV play about the legend of Lalli.

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  • 1987
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    Farewell, Mr. President

    Farewell, Mr. President

    5.9 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Lakeuden kutsu

    Lakeuden kutsu

    5.4 2000 HD

    Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen...

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  • 1988
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    Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus

    Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus

    5.3 1988 HD

    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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  • 1992
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    Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät

    Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät

    3.7 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    Land of Love

    Land of Love

    4.7 2003 HD

    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,...

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  • 1989
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    Dirty Hands

    Dirty Hands

    5.3 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Tilinteko

    Tilinteko

    6 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    Aapo

    Aapo

    5 1994 HD

    Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins.

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  • 1997
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    Vaiennut kylä

    Vaiennut kylä

    3.3 1997 HD

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  • 1989
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    The Winter War

    The Winter War

    7 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha

    Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha

    4 2000 HD

    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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  • 1989
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    Cha Cha Cha

    Cha Cha Cha

    6.7 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    Rikos & rakkaus

    Rikos & rakkaus

    3.8 1999 HD

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  • 1995
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    The Last Wedding

    The Last Wedding

    6.2 1995 HD

    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....

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  • 1985
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    Hei kliffaa hei

    Hei kliffaa hei

    4.2 1985 HD

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  • 2002
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    The Man Without a Past

    The Man Without a Past

    7.4 2002 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    Kaikki pelissä

    Kaikki pelissä

    5.8 1994 HD

    A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is...

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  • 1996
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    Drifting Clouds

    Drifting Clouds

    7.6 1996 HD

    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...

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  • 2005
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    Shadow of the Eagle

    Shadow of the Eagle

    2.5 2005 HD

    The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive...

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  • 1997
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    Pekko ja unissakävelijä

    Pekko ja unissakävelijä

    3.2 1997 HD

    Pipsa has fallen prey to a shady scientist Kalevi. Pekko tries to save her.

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  • 1993
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    Pekko aikamiespojan poikamiesaika

    Pekko aikamiespojan poikamiesaika

    1.7 1993 HD

    Pekko has a crush on Pipsa, a beautiful archeologist.

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  • 1995
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    Pekko ja massahurmaaja

    Pekko ja massahurmaaja

    1.8 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    Pekko ja muukalainen

    Pekko ja muukalainen

    2 1996 HD

    A Black man arriving in Tyräaho causes consternation among the villagers. Meeri Aavasuo wants an adopted child and to promote the cause, she...

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  • 1994
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    Pekko ja poika

    Pekko ja poika

    4.5 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 1988
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    Ariel

    Ariel

    7.104 1988 HD

    After the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for the city to make a living but there, he is framed and...

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  • 1984
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    Marked

    Marked

    5.8 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    Juha

    Juha

    6.8 1999 HD

    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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  • 1981
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    Syöksykierre

    Syöksykierre

    4 1981 HD

    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...

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  • 1985
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    The Wrestler

    The Wrestler

    6.2 1985 HD

    An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.

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  • 1984
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    Niskavuori

    Niskavuori

    6.2 1984 HD

    Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with...

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  • 2000
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    Pieni pyhiinvaellus

    Pieni pyhiinvaellus

    7 2000 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Kahdeksan peiliä

    Kahdeksan peiliä

    1 1982 HD

    A 1982 short film from Finland.

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  • 1993
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    Hunajan maku

    Hunajan maku

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1972
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    Eight Deadly Shots

    Eight Deadly Shots

    9 1972 HD

    Small-farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. The movie is a flashback examining the events that finally...

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  • 1998
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    Big Bang

    Big Bang

    1 1998 HD

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  • 1995
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    Kotikatu

    Kotikatu

    3.5 1995 HD

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  • 2000
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    Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood

    Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood

    7.333 2000 HD

    Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases....

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  • 1990
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    Lentsu

    Lentsu

    6 1990 HD

    Influenza virus wreaks havoc in Finnish common people. Eventually, the virus ends up on motorist Toivo Kesseli and puts his life on the verge of...

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  • 1991
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    The Winter War

    The Winter War

    1 1991 HD

    Pekka Parikka's The Winter War film edited as a five-part TV series.

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