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- Depicts the filmmaking, samples of the production of two long films of Finland-Film in summer 1937. Both are Valentin Vaala's guitars from Hella Wuolijoki's plays: "Juurako Hulda" (1937) and "Niskavuori Naisten" (1938).
- Development of the largest city of northern Finland, Oulu, is followed in the 1950s.
- Forester Antti Kare and manager John Freyberg travel north in search of millions worth of timber sales. The manager's giddy daughter Margit also secretly joins the journey.
- Fisherman Eerik Storm agrees to become a smuggler's pilot in order to get money to save his home.
- The main characters are the artist Bertel von Bjelke and Hilkka Kanno the adopted daughter of the town councilor. Bertel is in love with Hilka, who, however, behaves badly with the artist. This does not prevent the artist from asking for the girl's hand from the town councilor Kanno, who accepts his friend's request. Kanto stresses, however, that the final decision is up to his daughter.
- Niilo is in love with Heleena, but on his father's orders, he becomes engaged to Loviisa, a spinster from the Ukonniemi estate. When he wants to break off his engagement, the hurt bride sets out to break up the lovers' relationship.
- Engineer Max Klaar raises his tomboy daughter Elisabeth (nicknamed Peter) alone. Nora Christian, a famous actress and Max's ex-wife, resurfaces in the village where father and daughter live. Elisabeth coming across her mother takes her to Max's house. Shortly afterward, Elisabeth nearly drowns herself in the village lake but is saved at the last minute by Helga, a student vacationing in the area. The latter is not immune to the charms of Max but Nora puts an end to the fledgling romance by going away and taking Elisabeth with her. Max is at a loss... but not for long. Elisabeth soon realizes she needs her two parents and manages to reunite them in the end.
- The daughter of Niva's house, Saima, rescues a German Lieutenant from a river. He was separated from his group after escaping the Murman railway labor camp. He recovers in the care of Saima but the police get wind of the escapees.
- In the winter of 1838 surprise guests arrive at the manor house of Rautakylä, inhabited by the elderly Baron Magnus Drakenhjelm and the story takes us back fifty years to the court of Gustav III in Stockholm.
- Opens at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in February 1899. Tsar Nicholas II signs the February Manifesto, the purpose of which is to abolish Finnish self-government. An act that arouse widespread opposition in Finland.
- Story of Aate Pitkänen, a idealistic Canadian-Finn who went to Soviet Karelia.
- Crowns servant rättäri holds the riverside village in his grip with his plots. Officer Turkka falls in love with Katri, whom the rättäri also woos. Turkka, who learns of the rättäri's shady dealings, decides to expose rättäri.
- The story of Ansa Kansas, a New York City man who believed that he was a woman in a man's body and travels to Finland to have a sex-change operation.
- Set in Macao, the film finds Richard Jaeckel cast as a two-fisted, womanizing private detective. He has been assigned to track down an international crime ring.
- The film presented the background of the war, the war itself and the reconstruction work begun right after the war.
- A film in two episodes. The first, "Juulia", is a young woman's stylish reminiscence of her brief summer romance, set in some of the most chic design locations around Helsinki. The second episode "Tikku", a seemingly semi-improvised comedy, takes an overworked housewife, her three children and her lazy husband out of the city to spend the weekend at the mother-in-law's.
- Old war veterans meet a changed world.