Asta Backman

Täällä Pohjantähden alla

Edvin Laine

Aarno Sulkanen, Titta Karakorpi

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.

Kustaa III

Mirjam Himberg

Lasse Pöysti, Asta Backman

A Finnish television play based on August Strindberg’s original.

Taksikuski

Veikko Kerttula

Antti Litja, Martti Pennanen

An existential road movie based on a novel of a key Finnish modernist writer.

Kuuma kissa?

Erkko Kivikoski

Maarita Mäkelä, Eero Melasniemi

This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The small-town school marm tries to help a male student who has been suspended for drunkenness. She tutors the young man, and soon the two engage in a tender and passionate love affair in which both people reach out and touch each other physically and emotionally.

Ylijäämänainen

Roland af Hällström

Asta Backman, Tauno Palo

A film about the destiny of cashier disappointed in love.

Synnin jäljet

Hannu Leminen

Eeva-Kaarina Volanen, Rauha Rentola

Tuula, Mirri and Aino are roommates at a nurse college. At her hospital internship, Aino works with Dr. Eero who has had an affair with Viivi, the director of the nurses' dormitory. At the same time, Tuula is starting to get closer to Mirri's fiancé Ragnar who has begun to doubt Mirri's love and loyalty.

Veteraanin voitto

Aarne Laine, Edvin Laine

Tapio Rautavaara, Vilho Siivola