A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Olavi Varja
Born:
January 1, 1956
Additional Camera:
1981 The Liar
Camera Operator:
1981 The Liar
1988 From Russia with Rock
1994 Total Balalaika Show
Cinematography:
1981 The Liar
1982 Jackpot 2
1988 From Russia with Rock
1994 Total Balalaika Show
Director of Photography:
1981 The Liar
1981 The Saimaa Gesture
1982 Jackpot 2
1987 Lain ulkopuolella
1987 Macbeth
1988 From Russia with Rock
1991 Zombie and the Ghost Train
1994 Total Balalaika Show
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002 The Life of Aleksis Kivi
2013 Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla
Electrician:
1981 The Liar
1981 The Saimaa Gesture
1982 Jackpot 2
1987 Lain ulkopuolella
1987 Macbeth
1988 From Russia with Rock
1991 Zombie and the Ghost Train
1992 La Vie de Bohème
1994 Total Balalaika Show
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002 The Life of Aleksis Kivi
2013 Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla
Gaffer:
1981 The Liar
1981 The Saimaa Gesture
1982 Jackpot 2
1986 Shadows in Paradise
1987 Lain ulkopuolella
1987 Macbeth
1988 Ariel
1988 From Russia with Rock
1989 Leningrad Cowboys Go America
1990 I Hired a Contract Killer
1990 The Match Factory Girl
1991 Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers
1991 Night on Earth
1991 Zombie and the Ghost Train
1992 Goodbye, Trainmen
1992 La Vie de Bohème
1992 The Prodigal Son
1993 Our Father…
1993 Ripa Hits the Skids
1994 Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
1994 Total Balalaika Show
1996 Drifting Clouds
1997 The Collector
1999 Juha
2000 Bad Luck Love
2001 The Classic
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002 The Life of Aleksis Kivi
2002 The Man Without a Past
2004 Flowers and Binding
2004 Pelicanman
2005 For the Living and the Dead
2006 Lights in the Dusk
2006 Rock'n Roll Never Dies
2007 Family Meeting
2008 Sisters Apart
2009 Backwood Philosopher
2010 Bad Family
2011 Le Havre
2012 Road North
2013 Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla
2017 The Other Side of Hope
2023 Fallen Leaves
Second Unit Director of Photography:
1981 The Liar
1981 The Saimaa Gesture
1982 Jackpot 2
1986 Shadows in Paradise
1987 Lain ulkopuolella
1987 Macbeth
1988 Ariel
1988 From Russia with Rock
1989 Leningrad Cowboys Go America
1990 I Hired a Contract Killer
1990 The Match Factory Girl
1991 Moonlight Sonata II: The Street Sweepers
1991 Night on Earth
1991 Zombie and the Ghost Train
1992 Goodbye, Trainmen
1992 La Vie de Bohème
1992 The Prodigal Son
1993 Our Father…
1993 Ripa Hits the Skids
1993 The Last Border
1994 Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana
1994 Total Balalaika Show
1996 Drifting Clouds
1997 The Collector
1999 Juha
2000 Bad Luck Love
2001 The Classic
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002 The Life of Aleksis Kivi
2002 The Man Without a Past
2004 Flowers and Binding
2004 Pelicanman
2005 For the Living and the Dead
2006 Lights in the Dusk
2006 Rock'n Roll Never Dies
2007 Family Meeting
2008 Sisters Apart
2009 Backwood Philosopher
2010 Bad Family
2011 Le Havre
2012 Road North
2013 Bluesia Pieksämäen asemalla
2017 The Other Side of Hope
2023 Fallen Leaves
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At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.