FrameThrower · Actors · Matti Pellonpää
Matti Pellonpää
3 films · 165 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1983–1991
Born 28 March 1951 · Helsinki, Finland · died 13 July 1995
Matti Pellonpää was an award-winning Finnish actor and a musician. He rose to international fame with his roles in both Aki Kaurismäki's and Mika Kaurismäki's films; particularly being a regular in Aki's films, appearing in 18 of them.
He started his career in 1962 as a radio actor at the Finnish state-owned broadcasting company YLE. He performed as an actor during the 70s in many amateur theatres, at the same time that he studied at the Finnish Theatre Academy, where he completed his studies in the year 1977.
He was nominated Best Actor by European Film Academy for his role as Rodolfo in La Vie de Boheme and won the Felix at the European Film Awards in 1992.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 165 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1983–1991
- European Film Award for Best Actor1992
- Jussi Award for Best Leading Actor1991
How their films are shot
Measured across 165 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Matti takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 62% of their frames are night, 57% low key — the look of the work Matti takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 165 frames from Matti Pellonpää's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.