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Miehen sydän

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Pertti Sveholm, Mari Rantasila

Harri, a usually calm middle-aged man, loses his temper at a bar. His behavior towards the bartender Raija weighs on his mind, so he returns to make things up to her. This ends up being the catalyst for an unlikely and unwitting relationship between the two.

Tykkimies Kauppalan viimeiset vaiheet

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Vesa-Matti Loiri, Jarmo Tulonen

The story of a man raised in a boy's home and prison who doesn't conform to the rules and discipline of the military.

Manillaköysi

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Erkki Pajala, Vesa Mäkelä

Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizing. If I would have to describe it with one word, it would be: unglamourizing. The main point of Manillaköysi is pretty much compressed in one of the most famous quotes of it: There is nothing supernatural about war, it is just work like anything else.

Takiaispallo

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Hillevi Lagerstam, Tapio Hämäläinen

Aaro Saarinen is a foreman in the paper mill. The new generation continually questions his authority in both at work and at home.

Sano Oili vaan

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Mari Rantasila, Kari Hietalahti

Tähtikeinu

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Vesa-Matti Loiri, Anna-Leena Härkönen

L. Onerva and Eino Leino - two people, two rebels, prisoners of a difficult love relationship. Along with two passionate poets, there will be a third wheel, a young and talented composer Leevi Madetoja.

Vuoden viimeinen kesä

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Merja Larivaara, Vanessa Daniel