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Jani Volanen

Jani Volanen

Acting

Biography

Jani Kristian Volanen (born 1 November 1971) is a Finnish actor, director and writer. He has appeared in films such as The Romanov Stones (1993), Homecoming (2015), The Mine (2016), Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019) and Hatching (2022). He is also a creator of a mystery thriller series Summer of Sorrow.

Known For

Nurses
7.9

Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding and inspiring task of saving lives in a system that sometimes seems designed to do the opposite.

Nurses

2014
Deadwind
6.9

When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.

Deadwind

2018
Putous
4.8

Finnish sketch comedy television show.

Putous

2010
Kaverille ei jätetä
8.0

No description available.

Kaverille ei jätetä

1999
Jefferson Anderson
8.1

Jefferson Anderson is a Finnish animated sitcom. The computer-animated series portrays a satirical view of daily events in Helsinki at a police precinct in the suburb of Pasila. The series is made by members of the same team that made the award-winning series The Autocrats, a political animated satire. In 2007, the Finnish Broadcasting Company sent Pasila to compete for the Rose d'Or.

Jefferson Anderson

2007
Virta
5.0

No description available.

Virta

2011
Bullets
5.8

An ex-terrorist, Madina Taburova, who was presumed dead, turns up in Helsinki seeking political asylum. Using a fake identity, the Intelligence Agency officer Mari Saari has to befriend this ex-terrorist to find out why she’s here. In order to uncover the mystery, Mari Saari has to form an unlikely partnership with an older streetwise narcotics cop. But everything is not as it seems.

Bullets

2018
Munkkivuori
7.9

In early 1980s a young child disappears. The lack of police support pushes the concerned parents to take justice into their own hands and launch a desperate manhunt that is seen from the perspective of the local children.

Munkkivuori

2022
Suojelijat
8.0

No description available.

Suojelijat

2008
Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood
7.2

Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja as they tackle with personal life problems and try to keep their relationship purely professional.

Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood

2000
Hatching
6.2

12 year old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.

Hatching

2022
Dogs Don't Wear Pants
6.9

A grieving heart surgeon struggling with the loss of his wife drifts through an emotionally detached life while raising his teenage daughter. His chance encounter with a dominatrix awakens feelings he thought were gone, drawing him into a dark and unconventional world where pain and desire intertwine.

Dogs Don't Wear Pants

2019
Ihmebantu
8.0

Ihmebantu is a Finnish black humor sketch show.

Ihmebantu

2009
The Prince of Soap
3.3

Screenwriter Ilona falls in love with Kalle, the main star of the series, and mixes fact and fiction when she starts writing a romance between herself and the star. Jealous producer Raakel does everything she can to destroy Ilona's plans.

The Prince of Soap

2006
M/S Romantic
6.6

One night on a cruise ship between Helsinki and Stockholm, six stories of happiness and misfortune.

M/S Romantic

2019
No image
8.0

Thriller about Antti, an unemployed architect who is hired by the Security Police to infiltrate an ultra-right-wing organisation in a town in southern Finland. The group is passive and not dangerous. To keep his job Antti starts to invent action for the group.

Operation Interheil

2001
L/over – ikuisesti minun
6.5

No description available.

L/over – ikuisesti minun

2026
Studio Julmahuvi
8.4

Sketch show Studio Julmahuvi ran for 8 episodes on YLE in 1998. The show is a parody of YLE's own programming, squeezing an entire evening's worth of programming into a half-hour show which included everything from news and weather to a children's show and a German police drama, with commercials and TV-spots on the side. The show was created with an impressive budget of 67 000 € per episode which resulted in extremely high production-values.

Studio Julmahuvi

1998
Ladies of Steel: Like There's No Tomorrow
6.8

While at the reception, Inkeri overhears the doctor telling the nurse behind the corner that there is no life expectancy or hope left. Inkeri's daughter Maija takes it upon herself to care for her mother, even if it means forcing her, but Inkeri has other plans. As her last act, she intends to save Maija from repeating her own mistakes and then throw herself into the Arctic Ocean. Inkeri escapes from the nursing home for her final journey with her steel-haired friends and Matti, who has tagged along. Before reaching the Arctic Ocean, Inkeri throws herself into life: painful memories, intense emotions, and forest rave.

Ladies of Steel: Like There's No Tomorrow

2025
Butterflies
5.3

Siiri, a hardworking millennial, wants to be successful in her job as the advisor to the Minister of Economic Affairs. She craves a promotion. Siiri’s job takes her and the hard-to-handle minister, an unpredictable eccentric boss lady, to a big tango festival in a small Finnish town. Siiri’s father Petri, a former tango artist and an overly optimistic middle-aged man, wants to make himself useful to Siiri while trying to hide the fact that he himself is homeless, bankrupt and finally at his wits end. Over the course of one summer weekend both Siiri’s and Petri’s facade comes tumbling down but the tango keeps going on in the sweet Finnish summer night.

Butterflies

2024