
Acting
Mar 15, 1966
Ranua, Finland
Ilkka Koivula
Acting
Biography
Ilkka Koivula (born March 16, 1966 in Ranua) is a Finnish actor. He is best known for Freakin' Beautiful World (1997), The Swan and the Wanderer (1999), Rentun Ruusu (2001), Eila (2003), Lights in the Dusk (2006) and Under the North Star (2009).
Feature Films (38)

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when icy blonde Mirja approaches him, the lonely Koistinen falls helplessly for her, unaware she is manipulating him for her criminal boyfriend.
Lights in the Dusk

When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
Sisu

Based on the novel by Väinö Linna, the story takes place during the time of the Finnish Civil War.
Under the North Star

Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
White Snow

Ale and Lare are two wannabe career criminals who work for a ruthless kingpin Liljeroos. This dynamic duo takes action when a weasel named Sepi snitches about the big score: the easy way for Ale and Lare to get rid of criminal lifestyle and start it over. But this doesn't please Liljeroos at all.
Vaseline Hours

Businessman Erkki Hakala returns to Ostrobothnia after years in Florida and buys a metal workshop in Jalasjärvi from the unknown Partanen brothers with his business partner Taisto Matsomppi. Erkki misses his wife Kaisu, who back in the day stayed in Finland, and his child, but will the man be forgiven for years of absence?
Lakeuden kutsu

Mika's mother marries a man who is getting out of the jail. At the beginning everything seems to be all right. Mika leaves Oulu, an industrial city up in Northern Finland, to study in the capital, Helsinki. He does very well with his studies and also begins a relationship with the girl he knew already back in Oulu. Meanwhile the new husband reveals his true self - and all of a sudden things get very serious.
Homebound

The young country of Estonia is dancing to the jazzy tune of the 1920's when on December 1, 1924, the capital Tallinn is overrun by members of the Comintern in an attempt to stage a Communist coup. The film follows the fates of a young soldier called Tanel and his wife, a telephone operator named Anna, amidst the ensuing chaos which determines whether the country remains independent or becomes a minor province in the Communist Empire.
December Heat

Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Under the North Star II

Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
Historic Centre

Tundra of Lapland, Finland. Rupi, a young man who fills his days dealing and drinking, works in a mine hoping to raise enough money to escape the desolate village where he lives.
The Last Ones
Television & Series (8)

The life of a Finnish family from 1880, through the First World War, the Finnish Civil War and the Second World War, to about 1950. Through the lives of ordinary people, it describes the clash of ideals in Finland's language strife and the struggle between the Whites (nationalists) and the Reds (socialists) in the movement to Independence and Civil War. Based on the trilogy of novels by Väinö Linnan.
Under the North Star

A satirical spy comedy. Aleksis Nyqvist, an intern at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is pushed to the head of Finland's newly founded secret service, when a suitable dummy is needed for the position. However, Nyqvist identifies with his role too well and accidentally causes a security political crisis - and soon Helsinki is swarming with secret agents. How is Nyqvist doing?






