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Peter Franzén

Peter Franzén

Peter Vilhelm franz of (born 14 August 1971) is a Finnish actor, author, screenwriter, and director.

As an actor, franz in the stomach appeared in over 50 films and TV series. For his role in Dog Nail Clipper, franz of was awarded the Jussi Award for Best Actor as well as earning praise from film critic Jay Weissberg from Variety magazine who called the actor "one of the most talented and versatile thesps in Finland".

In his career, he has appeared in Finnish, Estonian, German, English, Swedish, and Hungarian speaking roles. In 2015, franz of was cast as King Harald Finehair from the fourth season of Vikings. Franz of lower abdominal cast in Amazon Prime Video's upcoming The Wheel of Time TV series.

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Movies Starring Peter Franzén (59)

Nightless Night (2023)

Hard-boiled detective finds himself entangled with a strange cult and macabre rituals. ...

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Boudica (2023)

Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, Boudica's kingdom is left without a male heir and the Romans seize her lan ...

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The Abyss (2023)

As the Swedish town of Kiruna sinks, Frigga finds herself torn between her family and her job as security chief at the world's largest underground mine. ...

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Black Lotus (2023)

An ex-special forces operative wages a one man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his friend's daughter from the local crime syndicate. ...

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Hamsters (2023)

A poor wild-life writer named Hamsteri, who is obsessed with natural disasters, lives in a wooden cottage in the countryside with his only friend, Minnie the mouse. In the village he is considered a bit odd and he is indeed special! When a lottery-winning ...

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Meander (2021)

After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to su ...

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Tale of the Sleeping Giants (2020)

Tale of the Sleeping Giants is a movie filmed entirely in Lapland in the most mythical wilderness: the mountains, lakes and rivers of Lapland. It is a journey into the rich mythology of ancient Scandinavians and Lapps told in the form of a nature movie. ...

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Ashes in the Snow (2018)

The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings. ...

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Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future (2016)

Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis' iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center, Saarinen also designed New York's TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Yale University's Ingalls Rin ...

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The Mine (2016)

A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entir ...

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Beck 31 - Gunvald (2016)

An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The murdered journalist has been threatened by right wing extremists, but it is the victim's work with a book ab ...

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Lapland Odyssey 2 (2015)

It's been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they've had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Mean ...

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Johan Falk: The End (2015)

The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family and t ...

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Homecoming (2015)

Tiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daughter and new husband, they move in and start to renovate the old house. However, neither the renovation nor facing the past is effortless. ...

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Johan Falk: Blood Diamonds (2015)

GSI follow up a weapon trail that leads right into Kavkaz mafia headquarters on the west coast. GSI member Niklas Saxlid is the one in the group who is specialized in undercover operations, and he has penetrated Kavkaz' activities. But suddenly something h ...

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The Gunman (2015)

Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier fl ...

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Heart of a Lion (2013)

Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings. ...

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Above Dark Waters (2013)

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear. ...

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Open Up to Me (2013)

At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange under the surface. She radiates sexual energy that is hard to define. ...

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Purge (2012)

Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin's regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the ...

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Road North (2012)

A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again. ...

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Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men (2012)

The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved ...

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Body of Water (2011)

Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these concern ...

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Priest of Evil (2010)

Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Harjunpää is unable to recover from the loss of his family. He seeks reve ...

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Princess (2010)

Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945. ...

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Rally On! (2009)

This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sladi' Pesonen, an ex-top-tiered race car driver now reduced to instructing students at a driving school. To relieve the monotony of this undesired career, Pe ...

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Hellsinki (2009)

In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business. ...

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Three Wise Men (2008)

Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a lone w ...

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Isabella (2008)

Irina Björklund plays Isabella, a priest who returns to her hometown, a small town in Ostrobothnia. However, her past does not leave her in peace. Flashbacks take us back decades: Isabella's unrequited love for Andreas, her best friend Charlotta's relatio ...

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Red Is the Color of (2007)

The tense marriage between two painters is shaken and stirred when the husband's provocative free-spirited nude model ignites his wife's sexual and spiritual awakening. In a three way game of subtle seduction, each of the three confront desires and frustra ...

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The Matriarch (2007)

Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo, Repe and equally silly son-in-law Ventti. The ...

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Cleaner (2007)

Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may have unknowingly erased crucial evide ...

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Mystery of the Wolf (2006)

Adopted, 12-year-old Salla lives in Lapland. After she rescues some wolf cubs from a poacher, her mission to keep them safe helps her reunite with her mother, who shares her mysterious connection with nature. ...

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Baba's Cars (2006)

Jojo is out of money and must work for his stepfather's shady car dealership to pick up a car that belongs to a Russian gangster. ...

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Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006)

Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships, and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career as a professional athlete ended however, the other side of his personality emerged into public view in ...

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Set Point (2004)

On one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at first seems like a regular crime investigation turns out to be something more - a tale of love, alienation and new hope. ...

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Dog Nail Clipper (2004)

Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spit ...

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The Threat (2004)

A programmer who's working with the secret EWS computer system at a military air force base is threaten by foreign agents, along with his family. His only chance of rescue seems to be the war veteran Haglund who is a leader of a special taskforce. ...

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At Point Blank (2003)

A gang of highly efficient and cold hearted robbers strike against a number of banks in Stockholm. The investigation ends up with the criminal detective Klara and the SWAT commander Greger Krona, who together lead the hunt for the robbers. Their investigat ...

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Bad Boys: A True Story (2003)

The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash. ...

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Names in Marble (2002)

Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country's government is declaring a mobilization for all. Henn Ahas, the son of a poor family, hesitates to go to war. ...

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Lovers & Leavers (2002)

This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams? ...

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Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods (2001)

Hairy and rowdy creatures called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare the elves away and settle down in the village. One of the elves, Milli, a brave elf girl, returns to the vi ...

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On the Road to Emmaus (2001)

A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic. ...

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Kites Over Helsinki (2001)

Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, ho ...

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Jewel of the Sahara (2001)

Set in a French Foreign Legion Camp circa 1954, the film follows the fantasies of a British captain, desperately missing his home and wife ...

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Bad Luck Love (2000)

A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu. Ali spends most of his d ...

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Badding (2000)

The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer. ...

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Rikos & rakkaus (1999)

In a comedy set in Rovaniemi, the parish's housekeeper Kristiina Pahka falls in love with Marsipaani Räikkonen, even though he knows that the man is a petty criminal. Under the leadership of hard-hitting Inspector Rautapää, the city's police force will ...

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Ambush (1999)

It is the summer of 1941 and the Finnish army has been mobilized along the border with Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola is waiting for orders to go on the offensive. The platoon receives orders for a recon mission through the wilderness around the ...

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Asphalto (1998)

As a conceptual fiction, Asphalto describes the relationship of a man and a woman by means of metaphor and visual symbols related to asphalt, service stations, and automotive sports. ...

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A Summer by the River (1998)

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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Train Birds (1998)

Hannes is a beer truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Timetable Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad… On his journey to Finland by train, ...

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Jäänmurtaja (1997)

14-year-old Petri dreams about becoming an ice hockey professional. A triangle drama at home makes Dad move away and replaces him with Mutanen, the worst player in the local hockey team. Petri finds out a way to get the best out of Mutanen on ice: before a ...

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Tie naisen sydämeen (1996)

Pentti Anttila is a journalist, who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman, who claims that she is being kept there by force. Penttilä starts to investigate the case and he ends up in to a little town named Järvensuu. The ...

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Deadly Rituals of the Flesh Loving Freaks - Katoamispiste (1996)

A man, his convertible and very dark thoughts. A mysterious woman in a red dress appears. Soon the man wakes up in a room. Is it all just a nightmare? ...

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Suolaista ja makeaa (1995)

The story of Anna, who is searching for true love and meets Lauri on Midsummer's Eve. ...

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Kissan kuolema (1994)

In the closed community of a reform school for teenagers, the principal's daughter is found sexually molested. The schoolgirls seem to know more than they are willing to tell. ...

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Takatöölö Story (1993)

A reporter starts investigating a murder while making a documentary about a 60's youth gang. ...

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Movies Made By Peter Franzén (2)

Kill Anneli (2020)

Black drama-comedy about elementary school teacher Kaisa who has lost control of her life. ...

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Above Dark Waters (2013)

A ravishing story about little Pete and his survival and growth in the gray area between love and fear. ...

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