Leif Wager
Know for: Acting
Born: 1922-02-11
Place of birth: Helsinki, Finland
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…ja Helena soittaa (1951)
Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the...
Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi (1943)
Wager is Count Mauritz Armborg, the young master of the estate. Linnanheimo plays Katariina (Catherine) the nanny to Mauritz's nieces and nephews....
Läpi usvan (1948)
Pertti works as telegraph operator on a ship. The ship arrives in Helsinki and Pertti looks forward to meet his mother and the neighbor girl, who he...
Minne av två måndagar (1965)
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's "A Memory of Two Mondays".
Daniel Hjort (1962)
Based on Josef Julius Wecksell's play. The story is set during the era of political unrest in 1590s Sweden.Daniel Hjort, the grim and lonesome...
Friends, Comrades (1990)
The boisterous good humor of Jurmala, the nickel-mine owner, is, if anything, only barely dented by the raging battles in Finland before, during and...
Poet and Muse (1978)
Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on...
A Barrel of Amontillado (1963)
Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends...
The City (1962)
A man has buried himself in women, in religious ecstasy , in vanity and in his belief in so-called artistic activity. His tension and frustration has...
Pikajuna pohjoiseen (1947)
The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North. One tragedy after the other...
Tåg norrut (1952)
The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North.
The Enchanted Road (1986)
Writer and psychiatrist Oscar Parland (1912-1997) narrates this nostalgic story about his early childhood memories and fantasies. Five-year-old Riki...
Kaks' tavallista Lahtista (1960)
Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends...
Toivelauluja (1961)
A film centered around a popular Finnish song book
Puck (1942)
Liisa and the renowned composer Raimo Kaarna are fond of each other, but in Kaarna's family history, everyone does not accept the relationship. In...
Nuoruus sumussa (1946)
Three young men trying to find a place in society after the war.
Tanssi yli hautojen (1950)
In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over...
Sven Tuuva the Hero (1958)
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the...
Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli? (1952)
Kesäillan valssi (1951)
A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family...
Olin nahjuksen vaimo (1961)
While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone...
Onnelliset (1954)
Pianist Lauri Alango and his wife Annina's fortune is cracked when opera diva Delia Rosati attracts Lauri to accompany her on tour.
Stiller, Garbo & jag (1988)
One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees...
Ryysyrannan Jooseppi (1955)
Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.