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.