# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olli-saarela
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:07:31.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olli-saarela"
name: "Olli Saarela"
slug: "olli-saarela"
description: "Olli Juhani Saarela is a Finnish film director. He has directed films such as Ambush, Bad Luck Love, Rollo and the Woods Sprite and Year of the Wolf, which is based on a book written by Virpi Hämeen-Anttila. Ambush was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival."
tagline: "Finnish film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Olli-Saarela-2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-03-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.7
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.935709333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0754328/"
    handle:    "nm0754328"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olli_Saarela"
    title: "Olli Saarela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "اولى ساريلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olli_Saarela"
    title: "Olli Saarela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olli_Saarela"
    title: "Olli Saarela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "الی سارلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olli_Saarela"
    title: "Olli Saarela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7088303"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/141978"
    title: "Olli Saarela"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump