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Esko Salminen (born 12 October 1940) is a Finnish actor with careers on television, the stage and on the silver screen.
Born in Helsinki, Salminen's parents were actor Unto Salminen and actress Kyllikki Väre . He is of partial Russian descent through his biological father, actor and singer Tauno Palo, whose maternal grandfather was a Russian soldier. [1] [2] Actors Jukka-Pekka Palo , Martti Palo and Pertti Palo are his half-brothers. [3]
Salminen has been married to actress Rose-Marie Precht , dancer Riikka Korppi-Tommola and, since 1989, to actress Aino Seppo . He has two children with actress Heidi Krohn , one of whom is actor Kristo Salminen . [1] Actresses Sonja Salminen and Kreeta Salminen are also Salminen's children. [4]
Tauno Valdemar Palo was a Finnish actor and singer in what some consider the golden age of Finnish cinema.
Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor. During his career he directed, wrote, produced or acted in about 50 movies and participated in numerous TV productions, including the comedy Spede Show and the game-show Speden Spelit. Much of his more commercial work was in collaboration with Vesa-Matti Loiri and Simo Salminen. Pasanen's films and TV shows, often made quickly and on a low budget, usually received little critical recognition but were popular among Finnish audiences from the 1960s onwards. He was the owner of his own film production company, Filmituotanto Spede Pasanen Ky.
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Varsinais-Suomi is one of the 13 electoral districts of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. The district was established as Turku and Pori Province South in 1907 when the Diet of Finland was replaced by the Parliament of Finland. It was renamed Varsinais-Suomi in 1997. It is conterminous with the region of Southwest Finland. The district currently elects 17 of the 200 members of the Parliament of Finland using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2023 parliamentary election it had 398,903 registered electors.
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Rentun Ruusu is a 2001 Finnish biographical film drama directed and written by Timo Koivusalo. The film is based on the life of Antti Yrjö Hammarberg who is still today a very popular singer in Finland. The film stars Martti Suosalo and Ilkka Koivula with Vexi Salmi as narrator. The film premiered in Helsinki on 12 January 2001. The name Rentun ruusu is from Irwin Goodman's song, and the album Rentun ruusu was his biggest and sold 125,000 copies.
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Ville-Veikko Salminen was a Finnish film, television, stage actor and director. He was one of the founders of the acting companies for both Yleisradio and Mainostelevisio. He is best remembered for his roles in the films of Spede Pasanen, often playing a handsome, suave womanizer - but also had an extensive career in films and TV outside his films.
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Sign of the Beast is a 1981 Finnish drama film directed by Jaakko Pakkasvirta. It is based on the 1946 book A Gloomy Soliloquy by Olavi Paavolainen, based on his war diaries written during the Winter War and the Continuation War. The film was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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