Turo Pajala

Acting

Turo Pajala

Born 1955-11-16 Joutseno, Finland 12 films

Turo Pajala (November 16, 1955 − February 28, 2007) was a Finnish actor. Pajala played the leading role as an unemployed coal miner Taisto Kasurinen in an Aki Kaurismäki film Ariel, and won the Bronze St. George award for Best Actor at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. He also played many supporting roles in films and on television. Pajala's personal life took a downturn after Ariel, when he withdrew from the public eye. He made his final film…

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Filmography

12 films
Palkkasoturi poster

The story of a modest man, played by Ilkka Heiskanen, who decides to become a mercenary in the Yugo…

Palkkasoturi

★ 5.8 1997

Ariel poster

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his fathe…

Ariel

★ 7.1 1988

Macbeth poster

A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio o…

Macbeth

★ 6.3 1987

Huomenna poster

The story of an unspecified country ravaged by civil war, with its rebels and spies.

Huomenna

★ 5.5 1986

Pimeys odottaa poster

Matti Mäki is a young man who gets involved with a corrupt police man seeking proof that his wife,…

Pimeys odottaa

★ 4.5 1985