Rauni Mollberg

Tuntematon sotilas

Rauni Mollberg

Risto Tuorila, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).

Dinosaurus

Veikko Aaltonen

Rauni Mollberg, Pirjo Honkasalo

Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur looks at the relentless, often disturbing directing techniques behind Mollberg’s art and success.

Siunattu hulluus

Rauni Mollberg

Mikko Nousiainen, Toivo Tuomainen

The two eldest brothers of the Rummukainen family have come to conclusion, that their younger brother is indeed insane and decide to take him to mental hospital.

Maa on syntinen laulu

Rauni Mollberg

Maritta Viitamäki, Pauli Jauhojärvi

An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outraged and a series of tragic events follows

Aika hyvä ihmiseksi

Rauni Mollberg

Marja Korhonen, Lilga Kovanko

The film follows a boy and the relationship between his birth mother and step mother. Based on the novels by Aapeli.

Tehtaan varjossa

Rauni Mollberg

Mika Arola, Hellin Auvinen-Salmi

Milka

Rauni Mollberg

Irma Huntus, Leena Suomu

Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to marry Ojanen, and her daughter's pregnancy turns their lives around. Set in the Lapp country of northern Finland, the scenery is breathtaking, made even more so by the isolation of the region. A sense of natural solitude is underscored by a slow-moving dialogue interspersed with long silences, and the connection between nature and the dialogue is underscored as the young Milka recites poetry while out in the countryside. The fate of Milka and her mother, however, is connected to the decision that Ojanen makes at the end.

Ystävät, toverit

Rauni Mollberg

Mikk Mikiver, Stina Ekblad

The boisterous good humor of Jurmala, the nickel-mine owner, is, if anything, only barely dented by the raging battles in Finland before, during and after World War Two. In fact, everywhere he goes, he meets prospective customers on all sides of the conflict with his all-inclusive greeting "Friends, Comrades." Indeed, the resource he is wrenching from the earth's bowels is necessary to all forms of industrial activity, and is especially necessary for military applications. Thus, he has no reason to fear that he will ever run out of customers. This doesn't prevent him from using every possible means to entice them. At home, his relationship with his wife is not so prosperous, and they resort to some extraordinary means to try and keep on an even keel.

Paratiisin lapset

Rauni Mollberg

Tatyana Vasileva, Pertti Sveholm

Eeva, the strong-willed and ambitious businesswoman, dreams to build a spa called Paradiso Baltica.

Saatana perkele helvettiin

Sven-Olof Persson, Bengt Pohjanen

About the Korpela movement or Siikavaara sect active during the 1930's in the far north of Sweden. Toivo Korpela a Laestadian preacher was outmanoeuvred by Sigurd Siikavaara and returned to Finland. Siikavaara who preferred apocalyptic beliefs and ecstatic rituals soon gathered a large following and became prophet #1. With Artur Niemi, prophet #2, he draped and enhanced the rituals with total sexual freedom. At the trial in 1939 Siikavaara assured that he had not been sober one day during the last 8 years. Chanting "Saatana, Saatana, Helvettin, Babylon,Perkele" over and over. Swearing and cursing all the way to Eden.