Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-11 of 11
- A hard-nosed hit man Raid returns to Finland and is unofficially asked to investigate the arson case involving his old flame Tarja.
- Lieutenant Takala joins a group of war veterans who gather in a restaurant to reminisce their unit's operations on the Finnish-Soviet front. A flashback takes us back to summer 1944 where the unit, led by Takala, performs dangerous guerrilla operations behind enemy lines. A subplot alleges sexual liaisons between soldiers and female volunteers, which caused controversy when the film and the novel it's based on were released in the early 1960s.
- Biopic about Finnish painter Venny Soldan-Brofeldt (1863-1945). Around the turn of the century, she marries journalist and writer Juhani Aho who soon becomes infatuated with her sister Tilly as well. Both women eventually have children with him, and an unconventional love triangle evolves with all three of them living together in Finland and travelling around Europe during the turmoils of the First World War and the Finnish Civil War.
- In Karelia, Finland, during the Continuation War in which Captain Viktor Aaltonen is captured and detained in a Soviet prison camp for ten years. Back in Finland he accidentally run on a ten year old boy.
- Three teams - representing the police, the military and the rescue services - compete against each other in difficult and physically straining missions for the grand prize, a trip to New York to meet their American counterparts.
- A vagabond sings and seduces maids in Finnish countryside at 1800s.
- Maunu Kurkvaara (b. 1926) was an auteur of the Finnish new wave cinema in the 50s and 60s. Now 85 years old, Kurkvaara appears in this filmic double portrait, reflecting on painting and film making, nature and modern society.