# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pekka-parikka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:45:10.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pekka-parikka"
name: "Pekka Parikka"
slug: "pekka-parikka"
description: "Pekka Parikka was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. His 1989 film The Winter War was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki."
tagline: "Finnish film director and screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yT4RDkKgZea3YLcdEWAO65NjXgE.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-05-02"
deathDate: "1997-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.4
  momentum:             16.29411764705883
  historical:           8.336789333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661502/"
    handle:    "nm0661502"
sources:
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    title: "Pekka Parikka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "پيكا پاريكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Parikka"
    title: "Pekka Parikka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Parikka"
    title: "Pekka Parikka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DA%A9%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "پکا پاریکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Parikka"
    title: "Pekka Parikka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Parikka"
    title: "Pekka Parikka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Parikka"
    title: "Pekka Parikka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Parikka"
    title: "Pekka Parikka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3034194"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/222545"
    title: "Pekka Parikka"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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