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The European Space Agency (ESA) (French: l' Agence spatiale européenne) (ASE), established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 19 member states. Headquartered in Paris, ESA has a staff of more than 2,000 with an annual budget of about €4.02 billion / US$5.38 billion (2012).
ESA's space flight program includes human spaceflight, mainly through the participation in the International Space Station program, the launch and operations of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon, Earth observation, science, telecommunication as well as maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana, and designing launch vehicles. The main European launch vehicle Ariane 5 is operated through Arianespace with ESA sharing in the costs of launching and further developing this launch vehicle.
ESA science missions are based at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands, Earth Observation missions at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, ESA Mission Control (ESOC) is in Darmstadt, Germany, the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) that trains astronauts for future missions is situated in Cologne, Germany, and the European Space Astronomy Centre is located in Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain.
Actors: Lasse Saarinen (producer), Hannu Kivioja (actor), Rea Mauranen (actress), Janne Reinikainen (actor), Alf Hemming (miscellaneous crew), Konsta Mäkelä (actor), Harri Ylönen (editor), Juha Kukkonen (actor), Klaus Hedström (miscellaneous crew), Timo Tuominen (actor), Jukka Asikainen (miscellaneous crew), Eero Milonoff (actor), Pekko Pesonen (miscellaneous crew), Hannele Majaniemi (miscellaneous crew), Aimo Räsänen (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Philip Odango (actor), John Darko (editor), John Darko (producer), Ahmed Al Baker (actor), Ahmed Al Baker (writer), Ahmed Al Baker (producer), Ahmed Al Baker (editor), Ahmed Al Baker (director), Gregory M. Johnson (composer), Beau Trembly (composer), Mohammed Abdul Rahman (actor), Mohammed Abdul Rahman (producer), Mohammed Abdul Rahman (director), Ibrahim Al-Mirza (actor), Jassim Mohammed (actor),
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller,Actors: Heikki Nousiainen (actor), Jukka Helle (producer), Tiina Kaukanen (costume designer), Markus Selin (producer), Santeri Kinnunen (actor), Niko Saarela (actor), Riitta Havukainen (actress), Rampe Toivonen (miscellaneous crew), Rampe Toivonen (miscellaneous crew), Seppo Pääkkönen (actor), Saima (actress), Tiia Louste (actress), Reino Nordin (actor), Marja Pyykkö (writer), Marja Pyykkö (director),
Plot: Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Siiri is just one year older than Emilia but not at all like her. When Emilia and Siiri become friends, Emilia's life changes. Siiri encourages her to take a leap, shake the rules and leave princess dreams behind. These two will have fun together, but not only good times.
Keywords: 15-year-old, angst, bad-girl, beating, boyfriend, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, cigarette-smoking, coming-of-age, divorce-child, drinking-alcoholActors: Jori Grönroos (actor), Jori Grönroos (director), Jori Grönroos (composer), Jori Grönroos (writer), Pekka Aine (producer), Pekka Aine (actor), Joonas Allonen (editor), Pauline Kuusela (actress), Julius Karlsson (actor), Pauli Raatikainen (actor), Sanni Lehtonen (actress), Santeri Lehtonen (actor), Mirja Ylenius-Lehtonen (actress), Justus Jokinen (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Kimmo Taavila (editor), Jarmo Lampela (director), Jarmo Lampela (writer), Marja Packalén (actress), Ilkka Koivula (actor), Eila Werning (producer), Juha Kukkonen (actor), Niina Pasanen (costume designer), Tove Idström (miscellaneous crew), Ahti Jokinen (actor), Gunilla Jensen (miscellaneous crew), Sanna Hedström (miscellaneous crew), Juha Varis (actor), Johanna Kerttula (actress), Pihla Penttinen (actress),
Plot: Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.
Keywords: 60th-birthday, adultery, airplane, apology, ashtray, asthma, atomizer, attempted-drowning, audi, autographActors: Sulevi Peltola (actor), Kimmo Taavila (editor), Hannu Kivioja (actor), Martti Kuisma (actor), Oiva Lohtander (actor), Matti Onnismaa (actor), Aki Kaurismäki (producer), Esko Salminen (actor), Veikko Aaltonen (director), Veikko Aaltonen (editor), Juhani Niemelä (actor), Heikki Kujanpää (actor), Juuso Hirvikangas (actor), Mauri Sumén (composer), Leea Klemola (actress),
Plot: Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.
Keywords: ex-convict, male-prostitute, sadismActors: Kaarlo Wilska (actor), Raili Rusto (director), Eero Ojanen (composer), Kari Kyrönseppä (writer), Esa Lehto (actor),
Genres: Drama, Family,Actors: Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala (actress), Gustav Wiklund (actor), Mirjam Himberg (director), Emma Väänänen (actress), Matti Oravisto (actor), Pehr-Olof Sirén (actor), Tauno Söder (actor), Michael Kallaanvaara (actor), Matti Vihola (actor), Soila Komi (actress), Anneli Pukema (writer), Jukka Jusula (actor), Pekka Kantonen (actor), Panu Laukkanen (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Orvo Saarikivi (actor), Kaarlo Wilska (actor), Otto Noro (actor), Sasu Haapanen (actor), Kaarlo Saarnio (actor), Joel Rinne (actor), Ossi Elstelä (actor), Matti Aulos (actor), Kauko Kokkonen (actor), Ossi Korhonen (actor), Ossi Elstelä (actor), Otto Noro (actor), Uuno Laakso (actor), Topo Leistelä (actor), Ansa Ikonen (actress),
Plot: Jussi Raala loses his inheritance when his alcoholic father sells his manor, sawmill and forests to the Lumia family. Jussi works for a while to the Lumias but is embittered by the insults and leaves the country. Two decades later he returns from America after making a new fortune and starts to buy sawmill shares from their current owner Mauno Lumia, who in turn has succumbed to alcoholism.
Keywords: alcohol, alcoholism, based-on-novel, business, business-takeover, businessman, class-society, delirium-tremens, domineering-father, drinkingActors: Yrjö Tuominen (actor), Erkki Karu (producer), Kaisu Leppänen (actress), Teuvo Puro (writer), Teuvo Puro (director), Eero Kilpi (actor), Karl Fager (actor), Armas Fredman (actor), Toivo Suonpää (actor), Martti Tuukka (miscellaneous crew), Hemmo Kallio (actor), Olga Leino (actress), Einar Rinne (actor), Hannes Närhi (actor), Heidi Blåfield (actress),
Genres: Drama, Horror,