Kauko Helovirta

Jäniksen vuosi

Risto Jarva

Antti Litja, Kauko Helovirta

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life

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.

The Boys

Mikko Niskanen

Pentti Tarkiainen, Vesa-Matti Loiri

When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...

Akseli ja Elina

Edvin Laine

Aarno Sulkanen, Ulla Eklund

A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.

Tulitikkuja lainaamassa

Leonid Gayday, Risto Orko

Evgeni Leonov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...

Pariisilaissolmio

Matti Kassila

Keijo Komppa, Arja Pessa

A TV movie based on the short story of the same name by Mika Waltari.

Viimeinen savotta

Edvin Laine

Matti Pellonpää, Jyrki Kovaleff

Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol.

Akaton mies

Edvin Laine

Elisabeth Haavisto, Martti Järvinen

Farmer wants a wife.

Härmästä poikia kymmenen

Ilmari Unho

Tauno Palo, Yrjö Kantoniemi

Based upon the popular folk song, the film tells the story of two men who want to test the new Sheriff, who has new policies to put in place.

Natalia

Matti Kassila

Ola Johansson, Matti Mäntylä

Vodkaa, komisario Palmu

Matti Kassila

Joel Rinne, Leo Jokela

A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.

Sven Tuuva

Edvin Laine

Kauko Helovirta, Veikko Sinisalo

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.

Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy

Ere Kokkonen

Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita

Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki

Back to the USSR - takaisin Ryssiin

Jari Halonen

Jorma Tommila, Taisto Reimaluoto

Reima Elo ends up trying to commit suicide when he is abandoned by his wife Molla. He is also the village's laughing stock due to his communism. At a critical moment, a Lenin lookalike from Russia named Vladimir rescues him.

Pilvilinna

Sakari Rimminen

Erik Uddström, Meri Oravisto

Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school filled with angry radical teens who, typically for the era, consider the teacher-imposed discipline as another form of capitalist imperialism. Almost reluctantly Erik drifts together with Annika, a girl from a wealthy family, and starts experimenting with sex and marijuana. In the same nonchalant manner Erik gets involved in demonstrations and school politics which escalate into a violent school strike leading to police intervention and heavy sanctions.

Vaarallista vapautta

Veikko Itkonen

Toivo Lehkonen, Pirkko Peltonen

Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the help of her mother. Ruth the girlfriend of Sinikka's brother happens to witness the escape, which puts them all in danger.