Wonderful World of Finnish Cinema
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- DirectorHeikki KujanpääStarsSaana HyvärinenEsko NikkariMaria JärvenhelmiIn a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon abandons the baby. The next day the infant is brought to the hospital where Ritva works. Troubled with shame, Ritva finds consolation from a dying priest.
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsSherwan HajiSakari KuosmanenKaija PakarinenA poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
- DirectorMatti IjäsStarsHannes SuominenVesa VierikkoEssi KailaA mentally challenged young man escapes from a mental hospital with a nurse he had fallen in love with.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsAntti LitjaKirsti WallasvaaraMatti RuoholaA young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers.
- DirectorRisto JarvaStarsEero RinneTuula NymanTauno HautaniemiMan leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships.
- DirectorDome KarukoskiStarsAntti LitjaPetra FreyMari PerankoskiThe Grump is a man from the past. A man who knows that everything used to be so much better in the old days. Pretty much everything that's been done after 1953 has always managed to ruin The Grump's day. Our story unfolds as The Grump takes a fall from his basement steps, hurting his ankle. He has to spend a weekend in Helsinki to attend physiotherapy. The Grump doesn't like this for four reasons: 1) He has to take a taxi. 2) He can't take daily care of his wife, an Alzheimer's patient. 3) He can't drive, which means he might have to sit in a car with a female driver. 4) He has to spend time with his family. The daughter-in-law is a career woman, not keen to spend time with The Grump when he comes to the city. Her boss has given her the task to look after Russian businessmen supposed to close a major deal over the weekend. It doesn't make her any happier when The Grump decides to help with the deal. Then The Grump has to face his useless son to become the father he never was, teaching his son how to take care of his loved ones. A thing The Grump has never been able to do. And somebody's day will be ruined.
- DirectorErik BlombergStarsMirjami KuosmanenKalervo NissiläÅke LindmanA newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.
- DirectorErkko KivikoskiStarsEero MelasniemiRiittaliisa HelminenPertti MelasniemiTwo brothers, two different lifestyles collide. Eero is a young married man who opens up a print shop and struggles to get it going. Eki is a student with Marxist ideas, although he dates the daughter of a wealthy shipowner.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsHolger SalinLiisa NevalainenPetri TannerIn 1906, a poor farmer in the backwoods of Finland -- then part of Russia -- struggles to make a living for his wife and four children. He hears about a new law that will allow equal voting rights to all citizens, rich and poor, men and women. He attends a Socialist meeting and starts believing that everything will turn better after the upcoming election. Instead, things only get worse for him and his wife after the election day. They start blaming themselves, believing that their tragedies are God's way of punishing them for voting the Socialists.
- DirectorMatti IjäsStarsSulevi PeltolaTarja SiimesLiisa Lehtimaja
- DirectorErkko KivikoskiStarsUrpo PoikolainenAarne HakulinenPentti ViljakainenThe events surrounding a factory in a small town are gone through in documentary style.
- DirectorMika RonkainenStarsAnna JärvinenHeikki KiviahoHarri MantyA son and a father go on a road trip that turns into a musical journey into the emotional memory and the history of Finnish immigration in Sweden; of shame, guilt, crime, alcoholism, and family secrets.
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsMinna HaapkyläLaura BirnHannu-Pekka BjörkmanA film about the woman behind the design company Marimekko that consist of love, courage, passion and attempted suicides.
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsAnna GodeniusGösta BredefeldtToni RegnerA woman is raped. She starts to follow and study her rapist.
- DirectorJouko AaltonenPeter von BaghStarsPeter von BaghAgit PropSinikka SokkaThe story of Agit Prop, communist band established in 1970.
- DirectorKirsi LiimatainenStarsKirsi LiimatainenEvo MoralesKirsi Marie Liimatainen meets some of the fellow students who she met while she was studying Marxism-Leninism at Jugendhochschule "Wilhelm Pieck" in German Democratic Republic.
- DirectorAntti-Jussi AnnilaStarsTommi KorpelaSidse Babett KnudsenHannu-Pekka BjörkmanOne night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home in Finland. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may.
- DirectorValentin VaalaStarsEila PehkonenMartti KatajistoEmma VäänänenA visual poem based on a story by Nobel laureate F.E. Sillanpää. The fates of various characters become interlaced over a long and light-filled summer night in the Finnish countryside. Lumberjacks, a deer-eyed young man Nokia, a family of poor farmers, a young girl and her lover... New life is born, old life dies, man is slain in his prime, and his widow continues her life.
- DirectorTapio PiirainenStarsKai LehtinenAri-Kyösti SeppoAlain AzerotAfter his release from prison, a petty criminal assembles a ragtag group to rob banks.
- DirectorSaku PollariStarsPantse SyrjäJaakko SyrjäKirsi KunnasThe story behind Finland's rock giants and their songs, and their love for performing, even from childhood, and also the story of two very different brothers trying to fit in the same band.
- DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsAaro AirolaAnna AirolaLeo KäkeläA girl enters a local talent contest.
- DirectorSelma VilhunenStarsMariam NjieElsa FionuirAlisa AarniomäkiA funny and moving film about teenagers with growing pains, who discover their own voice and talent through riding and grooming toy horses.
- DirectorVille JankeriStarsJussi NikkiläYlermi RajamaaEero MilonoffThree outcast young men get increasingly drunk when they wander around on a hot summer day trying to find something to do.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneMatti RaninLeo JokelaA rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. First the death is thought to be an accident, but lieutenant Palmu notices that the murderer has made a mistake, and Palmu and his assistants Kokki and Virta start an investigation into who has broken into the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap when Mrs. Skrof was sleeping.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsJoel RinneLeo JokelaMatti RaninA 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.
- DirectorRauni MollbergStarsRisto TuorilaPirkka-Pekka PeteliusPaavo LiskiThis film is the second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna with the same name as the film. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944). The film tells the story of the fate of a machine gun platoon made up of young conscripts from various parts of Finland fighting against the Russian army from the beginning (summer 1941) to the end (summer/autumn 1944) of the war. Many of the characters are based on author Linna's brothers in arms.
- DirectorInari NiemiStarsMilka AhlrothAnna PaavilainenMari RantasilaHelena's husband has gone off with a younger woman. Christmas is coming, life is slow and nothing is as it used to be. Helena is getting anxious about spending Christmas alone. Her best friend invites her to spend Christmas on a farm - only place she can afford.
- DirectorReetta AaltoAlli HaapasaloAnna PaavilainenStarsVeikko AalsteTeemu AromaaSuvi BlickA film by seven directors shows us moments in women's lives that usually remain hidden. Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day.
- DirectorSusani MahaduraStarsKeletLolaOfimjaKelet is a young Somali trans woman who dreams of becoming a Vogue model. Leaving her family in Manchester to return to her childhood home in Finland, she draws on the support of her friends in the Vogue community to immerse herself in Helsinki's glamour. Watch this shy and courageous young woman build a new life for herself, face her fears and her past, and succeed in following her dreams.
- DirectorJuuso LaatioJukka VidgrenStarsJohannes HolopainenSamuli JaskioAntti Tuomas HeikkinenAfter years of playing songs by other artists, the opportunity of a concert in Norway encourages a metal band to compose their own material, but not before overcoming some unexpected difficulties.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsTauno PaloIrma SeikkulaMaikki LänsiöAn aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his study) and back to real life. He can hardly recognize his rebellious teenage kids and materialistic wife, who hardly seem to notice his existence. The only person who is interested in the professor's work is his son's girlfriend Marja, a freshman at the university. An innocent infatuation flares up between the old man and the young girl, while the professor's family is only interested in the prize money an international jury awards the professor for his academic achievements.
- DirectorAdolf LindroosStarsRurik EkroosEmil LindhKirsti Suonio
- DirectorMarkku PölönenStarsMartti SuosaloHenrika AnderssonMatti VarjoPekka returns to his native village to attend a wedding. The village has lost its younger generations, and the movie tells the story of the last wedding in the village.
- DirectorMatti KassilaStarsRauni LuomaEsko SalminenSatu Silvo
- DirectorKlaus HäröStarsHeikki NousiainenPirjo LonkaAmos BrotherusAn elderly art dealer investigates the history behind an unsigned painting that promises to bring his suffering career to a successful end.
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsRitva VepsäSven-Bertil TaubeSeija TyniTuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She also finds out about his extra-marital affair with a female rally driver. In revenge, Tuula starts seeing her gynecologist Timo Paasi, a married man with six children.
- DirectorMikko NiskanenStarsEero MelasniemiKristiina HalkolaPekka AutiovuoriTwo student couples go camping in the Finnish countryside; partner swapping and interpersonal dynamics - with a touch of their philosophy - between them all arise.