Tarja Kaarina Halonen is a Finnish politician who served as the 11th president of Finland, and the first and to date only woman to hold the position, from 2000 to 2012. She first rose to prominence as a lawyer with the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), and as the Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary (1974–1975) and a member of the City Council of Helsinki (1977–1996). Halonen was a Social Democratic Party member of parliament from 1979 until her election to the presidency in 2000. She also served as a minister at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health from 1987 to 1990, as Minister of Justice from 1990 to 1991, and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2000.
Matti Taneli Vanhanen is a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland from 2003 to 2010. He was also Chairman of the Centre Party in 2006. In his earlier career, he was a journalist. Vanhanen is the son of professor Tatu Vanhanen and Anni Tiihonen.
The Finns Party, formerly known as the True Finns, is a right-wing populist political party in Finland. It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.
Jorma Jaakko Ollila is a Finnish businessman who was chairman of Royal Dutch Shell from 1 June 2006 to May 2015, and at Nokia Corporation chairman from 1999 to 2012 and CEO from 1992 to 2006. He has been a director of Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. since 1996 and UPM-Kymmene since 1997, and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, a New York–based boutique investment bank founded by Joseph R. Perella and Peter Weinberg in 2006.
Presidential elections were held in Finland on 15 and 29 January 2006 which resulted in the re-election of Tarja Halonen as President of Finland for a second six-year term.
Raid is a 2003 Finnish crime film directed by Tapio Piirainen. It is an adaptation of the 2000 television series of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nykänen and Piirainen.
Bad Luck Love is a 2000 Finnish crime drama film directed by Olli Saarela.
Vares: Private Eye is a 2004 Finnish crime film directed by Aleksi Mäkelä. It is based on the eleventh Vares novel Keltainen leski (1999) by Reijo Mäki. The setting is Turku, a city on the west coast of Finland. It stars Juha Veijonen as private detective Jussi Vares who investigates a case involving a large amount of dirty money. The film is the first of nine films in the Vares series. The first sequel, V2: Dead Angel, was released in 2007.
Jari Juhani Halonen is a Finnish film and theatre director, writer and occasional actor. Known as a controversial and outspoken person, his films, such as Back to the USSR (1992), Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma (1995) and The Christmas Party (1996), have garnered a cult following while also having been met with mixed reception by critics.
Onni Tommila is a Finnish actor, known for the films Last Cowboy Standing (2009), Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) and Big Game (2014). Tommila also appeared in the 2005 Rare Exports: The Official Safety Instructions. He was also the voice of Eetu in the animated film Eetu ja Konna (2011) and played a German soldier named Schütze in the movie Sisu (2022).
Events of 2019 in Finland.
Events in the year 2022 in Finland.
Events in the year 2023 in Finland.
Jorma Tommila is a Finnish actor. He won the Jussi Award for Best Actor in 1997 and played Aatami Korpi in the film Sisu (2022).
The Life of Aleksis Kivi is a 2002 Finnish biographical drama film directed by Jari Halonen, telling the story of Aleksis Kivi (1834–1872), the national writer of Finland.
Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma is a 1995 Finnish dystopian crime film written and directed by Jari Halonen. It tells the story of a private investigator living in a near-future federal state who begins to investigate unexplained explosion deaths. The film stars Jorma Tommila.
Back to the USSR is a 1992 Finnish comedy drama film directed by Jari Halonen and co-written with Jorma Tommila. It is an absurd comedy about Finland's last communist and his friendship with a vampire who looks like Vladimir Lenin. The film is loosely based on 1971 novel Vampyyri eli miten Wilhelm Kojac kuoli kovat kaulassa by Jarkko Laine.
Kalevala: The New Era is a 2013 Finnish fantasy film directed by Jari Halonen. It loosely based on Finnish epic poetry, The Kalevala, taking place both in the ancient land of the Kalevala and also in modern Finland.
Jumalan teatteri was a Finnish avant-garde, radicalist group of student actors from the Helsinki Theatre Academy. The group was composed of Esa Kirkkopelto and Jari Halonen, now directors, and Jorma Tommila and Jari Hietanen, now actors. Jumalan teatteri is best remembered for their experimental act at the Oulu City Theatre in 1987, where the group used fire extinguishers, raw eggs, whips, excrement, and fireworks to drive out all but one member of the audience. Police arrested the performers, and it became an internationally known scandal.
