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Movies

The Day the Earth Froze
Väinämöinen
Based on Finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of Lemminkäinen as he woos the fair Annikki and battles the evil witch Louhi. Louhi kidnaps Annikki to compel her father to build for her a Sampo, a magical device that creates salt, grain, and gold. When Lemminkäinen tries (and fails) to recover the Sampo, Louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into frozen darkness.
Risti ja liekki
Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery disguised as a choir boy, but is revealed by a monk Rasmus, who also desires her, and is put on trial.
In the Year 2000
A 1950 Finnish short film.
Pimeänpirtin hävitys
Aukusti
Set in 19th century country side and a small town. Leni and later her daughter Hanni living in Pimeänpirtti croft are seduced by Otto von Holten, the Patron of Kankaanpää Estate.
Vaivaisukon morsian
Metsä-Olli
Avioliittoyhtiö
Thorelius
Oi, aika vanha, kultainen...!
Joonas Karhu
Soldier's Bride
Franck
Pohjalaisia
Kyösti
The lumberjack's bride
Erkki
Charlotte Löwensköld
Charlotte Löwensköld is a story of psychological insight and a mother/son relationship. Charlotte is in love with Karl-Arthur--and both have some Löwensköld blood. Their young love is ill fated and each goes on to marry another.
Työn sankarilaulu
Juhani Rauta
A triangular drama set in the factory region and wilderness of Lapland.
Tukkijoella
Aaprami Turkka
“Tukkijoella” (Log River – 1928). Films of this genre gave the Finnish cinema and the viewing public one of its most popular characters – the lumberjack (tukkijatka, tukkipoika, tukkilainen) who at his most heroic hour becomes the log-roller or the shooter of rapids (koskenlaskija). The significance of this character in Finnish film is comparable to that of the Cowboy on American cinema. He is the pioneer, the wanderer, the adventurer. He negotiates the frontier, he is an embodiment of the conflict between wilderness and civilization.
His English Wife
Birger Holm
London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.
Johan
Stranger
On a farm in up-country Sweden, an enigmatic stranger comes to a conservative peasant community and seduces a farmer's wife. -IMDB