query: country_of_origin uuno turhapuro 
supports: Erkki Olavi "Ere" Kokkonen (7 July 1938  16 October 2008), born in Savonlinna, was a Finnish film director.  Pori is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäenjoki river. Pori was established in 1558 by Duke John who became later John III of Sweden. Savonlinna is a town and a municipality of inhabitants in the southeast of Finland, in the heart of the Saimaa lake region. The Finnish name of the town means ""Castle of Savonia"" and the Swedish name means ""New Castle"". Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri (born 4 January 1945, Helsinki) is a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004. Uuno Turhapuro is a 1973 Finnish film directed by Ere Kokkonen , and the first , black and white Uuno Turhapuro film . It stars Vesa - Matti Loiri , Marjatta Raita , Pertti Pasanen , and Simo Salminen . Uuno Turhapuro is the main character of the film , which was created by Spede and Loiri for Spedevisio . The unexpected success led to the creation of a 19 - movie series . In an effort to save money , Uuno became Spede 's first feature to be filmed and edited on video before being printed to film for theatrical distribution . This method was employed by Spede all the way into his late 1980s features . The film was the first produced by Spede after nearly a two - year - long hiatus , when Spede 's three feature films released in 1971 ( Hirttämättömät , Helvetin Radikaalit and Kahdeksas Veljes ) all failed to make a notable profit . Marjatta Raita (17 February 1944, Pori  27 September 2007) was a Finnish actress, who was best known for her role as Elisabeth Turhapuro in the Uuno Turhapuro movies directed by Spede Pasanen. Helsinki  is the capital and largest city of Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Helsinki has a population of , an urban population of 1,214,210, and a metropolitan population of over 1.4 million, making it the most populous municipality and urban area in Finland. Helsinki is located some north of Tallinn, Estonia, east of Stockholm, Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Helsinki has close historical connections with these three cities.
candidates: finland russia
answer: finland