T.J. Särkkä

T.J. Särkkä

Birth : 1890-11-20, Mikkeli, Finland

Death : 1975-02-09

History

Toivo Jalmari Särkkä (20 November 1890, Mikkeli – 9 February 1975, Helsinki), born Toivo Hjalmar Silén, was a Finnish film producer and director. Before his career in filmmaking, Särkkä worked as a bank manager and chairman in Kotimainen Työ, an organization promoting Finnish work and products. After the death of Erkki Karu, founder and owner of Suomen Filmiteollisuus, Särkkä became the CEO thus producing 233 and directing 49 feature films. In 1965, when Finnish film industry was in difficulties due to the coming of television, Särkkä initiated bankruptcy of Suomen Filmiteollisuus. He was CEO of the production company Suomen Filmiteollisuus. Särkkä married Russian-Lithuanian Margariitta Beljavsky in 1914. They had one daughter. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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T.J. Särkkä
T.J. Särkkä

Movies

Teerenpeliä
Producer
Sisters Pirkko and Brita travel to Aulango together with their landlady Sigrid to look for wealthy spouses. At the same time brothers Erkki and Olavi hope to find girls who would love them for their own sake and not for their money.
Turkasen tenava!
Producer
Jengi
Producer
Villin Pohjolan kulta
Producer
A western set in the "Wild North".
Ihana seikkailu
Producer
Ihana seikkailu
Director
The Boys
Producer
When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
Kun tuomi kukkii
Producer
Mäki Moore World Championship
Producer
A short documentary about the world championship match between Olli Mäki and Davey Moore
Naiset, jotka minulle annoit
Producer
Hän varasti elämän
Producer
A government official decides to steal a $25-million payroll and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves to a small rural village to start a new life with a new name and his new money, but finds that it's harder to escape his past than he thought it would be.
Producer
Pinsiön parooni
Producer
Pikku suorasuu
Producer
Älä nuolase…
Producer
Me
Screenplay
Me
Producer
Me
Director
Kertokaa se hänelle…
Producer
Preludes to Ecstasy
Screenplay
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.
Preludes to Ecstasy
Producer
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.
Preludes to Ecstasy
Director
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.
Oksat pois…
Producer
Miljoonavaillinki
Screenplay
A manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. An office manager promises to take the blame if the manager promises to behave better.
Miljoonavaillinki
Producer
A manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. An office manager promises to take the blame if the manager promises to behave better.
Miljoonavaillinki
Director
A manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. An office manager promises to take the blame if the manager promises to behave better.
Tyttö ja hattu
Producer
Olin nahjuksen vaimo
Producer
While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone towards Mr. Kaski and his abilities as a man.
Toivelauluja
Producer
A film centered around a popular Finnish song book
The Scarlet Dove
Producer
Dr. Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa follows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect.
Minkkiturkki
Producer
A story of a mink coat passing from one owner to another binding their fates.
Tähtisumua
Producer
Molskis, sanoi Eemeli, molskis!
Producer
Myöhästynyt hääyö
Producer
Otto and Kaija have celebrated their surprise wedding, but after a coctail party nothing between them is the same as Otto does not remember what actually happened, and the mess is ready when Otto's American uncle who hates women comes for a visit.
Opettajatar seikkailee
Producer
An uptight all-girl school teacher Leena Kataja stumbles upon a handsome artist Pertti Rinne who paints her face on a nude portrait, much to her chagrin. She is intent on keeping the painting out of circulation by stealing it from an art gallery, but the aftermath turns out to be more complex than she anticipated, leading Leena to become involved in various misunderstandings featuring a gang of criminals, inept cops and false murder charges among other things.
Inspector Palmu's Error
Producer
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
Kankkulan kaivolla
Producer
Kankkulan kaivolla
Director
Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
Producer
Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends about Usko (Tommi Rinne) and Toivo (Leif Wager), both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.
Scandal in the Girls' School
Producer
The headmaster of a private girls' school is doing her best to maintain strict discipline in the school. In addition to the loosening morals of the students, the warm relationship between two girls is a causing concern.
Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä
Producer
Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.
Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut
Producer
Nina ja Erik
Producer
Oho, sanoi Eemeli
Producer
Lumisten metsien tyttö
Producer
Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki.
Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen
Producer
Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen
Director
Kohtalo tekee siirron
Producer
Three brothers, all with their own problems that could be solved by money, try to come up with a plan to get they share of their uncle's fortune. Then a murder takes place and it is the job of a detective to find out which one of the brothers did it.
Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
Producer
Yks' tavallinen Virtanen
Producer
Vatsa sisään, rinta ulos!
Producer
Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Producer
Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
Moonwolf
Producer
Dr. Peter Holmes (Carl Moehner), zoologist and veterinarian, relectantly agrees to permit his dog, Wolf, to be used in a launch project commissioned by the International Conference of Science, at Geneva, to study body function and survival in outer space. Holmes had discovered Wolf as a pup in the forest, only to lose him again in a flood, and is fearful of risking the dog's life again.
Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa
Producer
An ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be his stand-in to escape the ring of spies threatening his life. Many beautiful women cross Kivi's path before the spy ring is eventually crushed.
Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa
Director
An ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be his stand-in to escape the ring of spies threatening his life. Many beautiful women cross Kivi's path before the spy ring is eventually crushed.
Sven Tuuva the Hero
Producer
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
Verta käsissämme
Producer
After returning home from being a prisoner of war Viktor gets a job from his friend Rolf with whom he had served. The men trust each other until Viktor meets Rolf’s wife Astrid.
Pieni luutatyttö
Producer
Pieni luutatyttö
Director
Autuas eversti
Producer
Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä
Producer
Murheenkryynin poika
Producer
Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
Producer
Kahden ladun poikki
Producer
Äidittömät
Producer
Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä
Producer
Niskavuori taistelee
Producer
The last black-and-white film in the Niskavuori series of movies.
Miriam
Producer
After her aunts death, young Miriam gets a position with the Allnes family. They have a son, Hans. Miriam and Hans fall in love. But the Hans mother is jealous and disapprove.
Vihdoinkin hääyö…
Producer
1918
Screenplay
Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
1918
Producer
Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
1918
Director
Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life.
Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina
Producer
Herra sotaministeri
Producer
Rakas varkaani
Producer
Vääpeli Mynkhausen
Producer
Musta rakkaus
Producer
Marjatta lives in poor conditions in Tampere with her widowed father Arttu who works as a factory worker. Marjatta gets to know engineering student Pauli whose constantly worsening mental health problems and jealousy become a threat to Marjatta and her close circle.
Risti ja liekki
Producer
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.
Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa
Producer
Pikku Ilona ja hänen karitsansa
Producer
Juha
Screenplay
Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova Shemeikka arrives from strange lands and takes Marja away with him.
Juha
Producer
Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova Shemeikka arrives from strange lands and takes Marja away with him.
Juha
Director
Juha lives together with younger woman Marja. Juha loves her, but Marja seems to belong to somewhere else. Things get complicated when casanova Shemeikka arrives from strange lands and takes Marja away with him.
Viisi vekkulia
Screenplay
Viisi vekkulia
Producer
Viisi vekkulia
Director
The Unknown Soldier
Producer
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa
Producer
Kaunis Kaarina
Producer
Pastori Jussilainen
Producer
Neiti talonmies
Producer
Rakkaus kahleissa
Producer
A lock factory worker Pertti would like to marry his girlfriend Verna, but fears they don't have enough money. His brother Martti is a member of a youth gang that is planning a robbery with three other young men. When the boys have to flee at the time of the robbery, Pertti who secretly shadowed them sees an opportunity to solve his money problem.
The Doll Merchant
Producer
A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state.
Isän vanha ja uusi
Producer
An architect, who has recently married a new, younger wife, tries to re-connect with his ex-wife, who is being courted by another man.
Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun
Producer
A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
Kiinni on ja pysyy
Producer
Rakas lurjus
Producer
It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent by the housing commission. Abel and Jussi Siimes, two devoted haters of women, find themselves in this predicament. They need to find a subtenant quickly to avoid the possibility of the housing commission sending a woman, God forbid it, to live with them. Abel's acquaintance, an assessor, recommends his nephew Kaino as the perfect choice.
Rakas lurjus
Director
It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent by the housing commission. Abel and Jussi Siimes, two devoted haters of women, find themselves in this predicament. They need to find a subtenant quickly to avoid the possibility of the housing commission sending a woman, God forbid it, to live with them. Abel's acquaintance, an assessor, recommends his nephew Kaino as the perfect choice.
Veteraanin voitto
Producer
Pete and Runt as Park Nannies
Producer
Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. As a result they meet an orphan boy named Otto while working as a park nannies. They offer to shelter the boy, but at the same time the father Antti, who has returned from the sea, is looking for his son together with Miss Raikas.
Onni etsii asuntoa
Producer
Opri
Producer
Majuri maantieltä
Producer
Taikayö
Producer
Hilmanpäivät
(uncredited)
The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but due to the confusion, extinguishing the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected.
Hilmanpäivät
Producer
The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but due to the confusion, extinguishing the fire turns out to be more complicated than expected.
Kaksi vanhaa tukkijätkää
Producer
Pekka ja Pätkä lumimiehen jäljillä
Producer
Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and takeJustiina along as a bait.
Kasarmin tytär
Producer
Minä soitan sinulle illalla
Producer
Mä oksalla ylimmällä
Producer
A fictional love story between famous composer Gabriel Linsén and opera singer Maria Sawina in 19th century Finland.
Niskavuoren Aarne
Producer
Niskavuori's Aarne (Arne från Niskavuori) is a Finnish drama film from 1954. It is based on Hella Wuolijoki's play Niskavuori's Bread. In chronological order of the Niskavuori series, the film is the fourth. Aarne has married Ilona and left the house in Niskavuori, which he hosts, where his former wife Martta still lives, while the old mistress is holding the reins. Aarne and Ilona live in Helsinki, but Aarne has not been able to completely break away from Niskavuori, but keeps secretly in touch with the headmaster and gives instructions on the farm management.
Scarlet Week
Producer
After a weekend of dancing and camping on a recreation island near the city, a young factory worker decides to stay and cut work for a day. Walking around the now deserted island, he meets a beautiful woman camping alone and sunbathing in the nude on the beach. A hot romance flares up between the worker and the more upper-class married lady, lasting through the light-filled nights of the whole summer week until the woman's much older husband returns to the island the next weekend.
Hei, rillumarei!
Producer
Kunnioittaen
Producer
The Milkmaid
(uncredited)
Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday
The Milkmaid
Producer
Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday
The Milkmaid
Director
Based on a short story by Johannes Linnankoski. A story of a milkmaid that falls in love with a student on holiday
Senni ja Savon sulttaani
Producer
Tyttö kuunsillalta
Producer
A widow and a husband tired of a loveless marriage rekindle the attraction they shared in their youth.
Pekka Puupää kesälaitumilla
Producer
Pekka is given the task of renting a summer place, but real estate agent Aadolf Muikku tricks him into buying a villa.
Se alkoi sateessa
Producer
Me tulemme taas
Producer
The film tells the story of the romance between the timber rafters and widow Kaisa, her daughter Satu and Katri from Karkela. Problems are caused by the men in the village, especially the Master of Karkela, who has his own plans for widow's land.
Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen
Producer
Schoolboy Klaus is convicted of theft and sent to prison. At his release Klaus feels that his life has changed a lot. Despite all his hardship and difficulties he keeps up his studies under the supervision of the grim Master Kahari.
Pekka Puupää
Producer
Pete and Runt set up a kindergarten at their home, and unknowingly end up taking care of a kidnapped baby.
Gold and Glory
Producer
A second part of a documentary covering the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.
Lentävä kalakukko
Producer
Varsovan laulu
Producer
A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.
Rantasalmen sulttaani
Producer
Niskavuoren Heta
Producer
Where the World Meets
Producer
A first part of a documentary on the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.
Muhoksen Mimmi
Producer
Kipparikvartetti
Producer
Komppanian neropatit
Producer
On lautalla pienoinen kahvila
Writer
Journalist Sanni visits the countryside to write about the timber industry. Looking for a room she is immediately thrust into the merry community of loggers, always up for a song, but one of them, Hurma-Jussi, is a little too persistent. Luckily, she is “saved” by the handsome lumberjack Eräs.
On lautalla pienoinen kahvila
Producer
Journalist Sanni visits the countryside to write about the timber industry. Looking for a room she is immediately thrust into the merry community of loggers, always up for a song, but one of them, Hurma-Jussi, is a little too persistent. Luckily, she is “saved” by the handsome lumberjack Eräs.
Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?
Producer
Lännen lokarin veli
Producer
Coal miner Esaias Coolman returns to Finland from his working years in America.
Mitäs me taiteilijat
Producer
Kuollut mies kummittelee
Producer
Sarmo explores the mystery associated with the murder of a landowner and the tangle of crimes, threats, and conspiracies created by a letter he left behind. At the same time Sarmo helps the consuls of imaginary small states of South America in a difficult situation, and charms their daughters.
Yhden yön hinta
Producer
The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.
Tytön huivi
Producer
Vihaan sinua – rakas
Producer
Pitkäjärveläiset
Producer
Rovaniemen markkinoilla
Producer
Based on a song by the same name. It was the Genre Popularizer for the Rillumarei film and live entertainment genre that drew from the musical couplet genre of light, cleverly written, often satirical songs. Many of these films were based on an existing song, or a song was specifically written to be the foundation of a film.
Rion yö
Producer
Kenraalin morsian
Producer
Radio tekee murron
Producer
Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book their heist to coincide. Teräsvuori gets caught but escapes from police custody to start his private investigations together with female radio colleague Eila.
Vain laulajapoikia
Producer
Lakeuksien lukko
Screenplay
Lakeuksien lukko
Producer
Rakkaus on nopeampi Piiroisen pässiäkin
Producer
Katarina kaunis leski
Screenplay
Finland late 1700s. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus Schildt.
Katarina kaunis leski
Producer
Finland late 1700s. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus Schildt.
Katarina kaunis leski
Director
Finland late 1700s. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus Schildt.
Kaunis Veera eli ballaadi Saimaalta
Screenplay
Tar Steam Princess Armada travels along Lake Saimaa to St. Petersburg and back during the years of Russian rule over Finland. The ship's crew gets tired of their sophisticated coffee maker and replaces her with Roma girl Veera, who has escaped from an arranged marriage. On the way back, mysterious passengers appear on the ship.
Kaunis Veera eli ballaadi Saimaalta
Producer
Tar Steam Princess Armada travels along Lake Saimaa to St. Petersburg and back during the years of Russian rule over Finland. The ship's crew gets tired of their sophisticated coffee maker and replaces her with Roma girl Veera, who has escaped from an arranged marriage. On the way back, mysterious passengers appear on the ship.
Tanssi yli hautojen
Producer
In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
Tanssi yli hautojen
Director
In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
Maija löytää sävelen
Screenplay
Maija löytää sävelen
Producer
Tapahtui kaukana
Producer
Young woman flies to Lapland together with her father and his new female friend whom the daughter dislikes. On a lonely skiing-trip across the vast wilderness, the young lady ends up in a shack inhabited by two research engineers and a funny old Lapland man who sees peculiar dreams.
Köyhä laulaja
Producer
Isäpappa ja keltanokka
Producer
Professori Masa
Producer
A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.
Katupeilin takana
Producer
Katupeilin takana
Director
Orpopojan valssi
Producer
Isäntä soittaa hanuria
Screenplay
Isäntä soittaa hanuria
Producer
Aaltoska orkaniseeraa
Producer
Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious criminal league.
Serenaadiluutnantti
Producer
Prinsessa Ruusunen
Producer
Pikku pelimannista viulun kuninkaaksi
Writer
Pikku pelimannista viulun kuninkaaksi
Toivo Särkkä (uncredited)
Pikku pelimannista viulun kuninkaaksi
Producer
Pikku pelimannista viulun kuninkaaksi
Director
Ruma Elsa
Producer
The boyish, temperamental chemistry student Elsa Kassel disapproves of her mother and sisters running after men, but when she hears that she's referred to as "ugly Elsa", she takes on a transformation. The new, charming Elsa tests her attractiveness on men and causes confusion all the way to her mother's new groom, Professor Harjula.
Pontevat pommaripojat
Producer
Neljästoista vieras
Writer
Neljästoista vieras
(uncredited)
Neljästoista vieras
Producer
Neljästoista vieras
Director
Kalle Aaltosen morsian
Producer
The S/S Vellamo heads to Alexandria with Kaarina, the daughter of the ship's owner Hallerman, on board. As Kaarina trades places with the family's housekeeper Marja, first mate Yrjö takes a liking to Marja whom he believes to be miss Hallerman. Meanwhile Kaarina, pretending to be a member of the cleaning staff, starts getting close with lower ranking officer Kalle Aaltonen.
Irmeli, seitsentoistavuotias
Screenplay
Irmeli, seitsentoistavuotias
Producer
Onnen-Pekka
Producer
Toukokuun taika
Writer
Toukokuun taika
Producer
Laulava sydän
Producer
Laitakaupungin laulu
Producer
Haaviston Leeni
Screenplay
Haaviston Leeni
Producer
Suopursu kukkii
Screenplay
Suopursu kukkii
Producer
Suopursu kukkii
Director
Särkelä itte
Screenplay
Särkelä itte
Producer
Naiskohtaloita
Screenplay
In mid-19th century Finland, Klaus von Rapp marries young Anette Erling. The marriage is full of happiness until Klaus’s deception is exposed and changes everything with catastrophic consequences.
Naiskohtaloita
Producer
In mid-19th century Finland, Klaus von Rapp marries young Anette Erling. The marriage is full of happiness until Klaus’s deception is exposed and changes everything with catastrophic consequences.
Naiskohtaloita
Director
In mid-19th century Finland, Klaus von Rapp marries young Anette Erling. The marriage is full of happiness until Klaus’s deception is exposed and changes everything with catastrophic consequences.
Pikku-Matti maailmalla
Producer
Kultamitalivaimo
Producer
Two conservative men are surprised when they find out that their wives are actually athletes.
Hedelmätön puu
Producer
Kuudes käsky
Producer
Kirkastuva sävel
Producer
Synnin jäljet
Producer
Tuula, Mirri and Aino are roommates at a nurse college. At her hospital internship, Aino works with Dr. Eero who has had an affair with Viivi, the director of the nurses' dormitory. At the same time, Tuula is starting to get closer to Mirri's fiancé Ragnar who has begun to doubt Mirri's love and loyalty.
Nuoruus sumussa
Producer
"Youth Astray" - About three young men trying to find a place in society after the war.
Nuoruus sumussa
Director
"Youth Astray" - About three young men trying to find a place in society after the war.
En ole kreivitär
Producer
Helena Kara plays a dual role in this spectacularly portrayed adventure story where a real Countess and a false one cause misunderstandings. The film won Jussi Awards for filming and staging.
Nokea ja kultaa
Producer
Suomisen Olli yllättää
Producer
Olli Suominen goes through the usual troubles of a teenager. After being in the war he is trying to find his place in the society. And the relations with his family is in turmoil. He also finds the sweet life in restaurants more exhilarating than being in the school and reading books for the forthcoming student exams.
Vain sinulle
Producer
Anna Liisa
Screenplay
Anna Liisa
Director
Anna Liisa
Producer
Ristikon varjossa
Producer
Suomisen Olli rakastuu
Producer
Olli Suominen fancies his teacher and other shenanigans.
Anja tule kotiin
Screenplay
Mauri Miettinen and his wife Anja are living in a happy marriage. Everything changes when Mauri's old acquaintance comes to visit and threatens to reveal Anja's dark past.
Anja tule kotiin
Producer
Mauri Miettinen and his wife Anja are living in a happy marriage. Everything changes when Mauri's old acquaintance comes to visit and threatens to reveal Anja's dark past.
Anja tule kotiin
Director
Mauri Miettinen and his wife Anja are living in a happy marriage. Everything changes when Mauri's old acquaintance comes to visit and threatens to reveal Anja's dark past.
Miesmalli
Producer
A romantic comedy about a writer coming back to Finland is bored with the High Society life and starts a modeling job for a young and beautiful painter Ilona. Dressed as a vagabond, he soon starts to please Ilona and her many lady friends as shows quick learning skills and soon shows great knowledge of history, art, and literature.
Sylvi
Screenplay
Sylvi
Producer
Sylvi
Director
Nainen on valttia
Producer
A famous operette star Kirsti Kalpa escapes her busy and selfish fiance and hides as maid to house of 3 bachelors ( professor, composer and butler) , who basically hate women.
Suurin voitto
Producer
The local doctor Aarno works with his nurse wife Asta. After the death of their child, the spouses have distanced themselves from each other. The man is completely immersed in the work, his invention of medicine, and the treatment of the outbreak of an epidemic for which the wife no longer has interest in. She is jealous of her husband's close work relationship with nurse Taina.
Ballaadi
Producer
Ballaadi
Director
Vaivaisukon morsian
Screenplay
Vaivaisukon morsian
Producer
Vaivaisukon morsian
Director
Suomisen taiteilijat
Producer
Synnitön lankeemus
Producer
Yrjänän emännän synti
Screenplay
Yrjänä's farm is plagued by infertility and the lady of the house decides to get a child by any means to continue her famous family. She's in conflict with her husband and with the church.
Yrjänän emännän synti
Producer
Yrjänä's farm is plagued by infertility and the lady of the house decides to get a child by any means to continue her famous family. She's in conflict with her husband and with the church.
Valkoiset ruusut
Producer
Hevoshuijari
Screenplay
Hevoshuijari
Producer
Nuoria ihmisiä
Director
Nuoria ihmisiä
Producer
Tuomari Martta
Producer
Martha's problem is balancing work and family. According to her husband Juho and father-in-law Kalle, the mother's place is at home with the child and not at work. Only her mother-in-law Ilona encourages Martta to advance in her career.
Tyttö astuu elämään
Producer
Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi
Producer
Wager is Count Mauritz Armborg, the young master of the estate. Linnanheimo plays Katariina (Catherine) the nanny to Mauritz's nieces and nephews. The two fall in love and decide to escape to Italy via Denmark where they have planned to get married. There are always complications because Mauritz's grandmother doesn't want him to marry below him - she has decided that Mauritz is to marry the Swedish beauty, Ingeborg Liliecrona.
Niin se on, poijaat!
Producer
Rantasuon raatajat
Screenplay
Rantasuon raatajat
Producer
Suomisen Ollin tempaus
Producer
Puck
Producer
Liisa and the renowned composer Raimo Kaarna are fond of each other, but in Kaarna's family history, everyone does not accept the relationship. In addition, Liisa has her own doubts, and a secret that does not endure the daylight.
August järjestää kaiken
Screenplay
Bank manager wants to hire younger employees. Fired cashier decides to teach him a lesson.
August järjestää kaiken
Producer
Bank manager wants to hire younger employees. Fired cashier decides to teach him a lesson.
August järjestää kaiken
Director
Bank manager wants to hire younger employees. Fired cashier decides to teach him a lesson.
Uuteen elämään
Screenplay
Uuteen elämään
Producer
Uuteen elämään
Director
Avioliittoyhtiö
Producer
Onni pyörii
Producer
Story about about a young man who was raised in an orphanage. Kauko goes to Helsinki to work as a store help. The living the big city is not so easy as Kauko expects and not so grand.
Onni pyörii
Director
Story about about a young man who was raised in an orphanage. Kauko goes to Helsinki to work as a store help. The living the big city is not so easy as Kauko expects and not so grand.
Oi, aika vanha, kultainen...!
Producer
Onnellinen ministeri
Producer
An artist bases a painting for a revealing lingerie ad on a photo of a girl he had found torn from a magazine, not knowing that the girl is in fact the daughter of the Finnish minister of finance. A scandal is about to erupt, and the artist is given 48 hours to find a strikingly similar-looking female model who could serve as his alibi. The minister's daughter decides to fool the artist by pretending to be a lowly girl of the streets, whom the artist then recruits as his "model".
Onnellinen ministeri
Director
An artist bases a painting for a revealing lingerie ad on a photo of a girl he had found torn from a magazine, not knowing that the girl is in fact the daughter of the Finnish minister of finance. A scandal is about to erupt, and the artist is given 48 hours to find a strikingly similar-looking female model who could serve as his alibi. The minister's daughter decides to fool the artist by pretending to be a lowly girl of the streets, whom the artist then recruits as his "model".
Täysosuma
Producer
A young heiress settles into a holiday hotel in search of a suitable husband. There are enough groom candidates, some gentlemen, and some cheaters. All that is certain is that the misfortunes will not end.
Poikamies-pappa
Producer
Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina
Screenplay
At the eve of Crimean war orphaned Regina lives with her grandmother in a small cabin near a lavish villa. As the summer approaches there is great anticipation of a big ball to be held.
Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina
Producer
At the eve of Crimean war orphaned Regina lives with her grandmother in a small cabin near a lavish villa. As the summer approaches there is great anticipation of a big ball to be held.
Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina
Director
At the eve of Crimean war orphaned Regina lives with her grandmother in a small cabin near a lavish villa. As the summer approaches there is great anticipation of a big ball to be held.
Totinen torvensoittaja
Producer
Suomisen perhe
Producer
The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family.
Suomisen perhe
Writer
The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family.
Suomisen perhe
Director
The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family.
Jos oisi valtaa…
Producer
Perheen musta lammas
Producer
Kulkurin valssi
Producer
St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him.
Kulkurin valssi
Director
St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him.
Oi, kallis Suomenmaa
Producer
Yövartija vain...
Producer
Tavaratalo Lapatossu & Vinski
Producer
A Finnish comedy film from 1940. The third in the "Lapatossu" trilogy.
Tavaratalo Lapatossu & Vinski
Director
A Finnish comedy film from 1940. The third in the "Lapatossu" trilogy.
Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu
Screenplay
A poet finds a new muse in young woman.
Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu
Producer
A poet finds a new muse in young woman.
Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu
Director
A poet finds a new muse in young woman.
Lapseni on minun...
Producer
Elsa lives in a childless marriage. But she longs for a baby. She is drawn to a man that could be the father of her long awaited child.
Aatamin puvussa – ja vähän Eevankin…
Producer
The holiday of Pharmacist Himanen and Lieutenant Paavo Kehkonen turns into a nightmare when they pick up Station Chief Viirimäki, who is in a hurry to get to work. Their boat engine dies and runs into the rocks, leaving them stranded on an island with no clothes. Posing as a woman, Himanen gets to know the police chief's daughter Alli, but as a result of coincidences and misunderstandings, the two men end up in jail, each suspected in turn of being a fugitive Vikström.
SF-paraati
Writer
A love story between a taxi driver and a travel guide in the form of a musical.
SF-paraati
Producer
A love story between a taxi driver and a travel guide in the form of a musical.
Suotorpan tyttö
Screenplay
Suotorpan tyttö
Producer
Suotorpan tyttö
Director
Serenaadi sotatorvella eli sotamies Paavosen tuurihousut
Producer
Serenaadi sotatorvella eli sotamies Paavosen tuurihousut
Screenplay
Serenaadi sotatorvella eli sotamies Paavosen tuurihousut
Director
Pikku pelimanni
Writer
Pikku pelimanni
Producer
Pikku pelimanni
Director
Seitsemän veljestä
Producer
Based on a novel by Aleksis Kivi. Follows the story of seven brothers of Jukola in 19th century Finland.
Lapatossu ja Vinski olympia-kuumeessa
Producer
Takki ja liivit pois!
Producer
Jumalan tuomio
Producer
Jumalan tuomio
Screenplay
Jumalan tuomio
Director
Halveksittu
Producer
Helmikuun manifesti
Story
February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.
Helmikuun manifesti
Producer
February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.
Helmikuun manifesti
Director
February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.
Eteenpäin – elämään
Producer
Eteenpäin – elämään
Screenplay
Eteenpäin – elämään
Director
Nummisuutarit
Producer
Nummisuutarit
Screenplay
Vieras mies tuli taloon
Producer
Rykmentin murheenkryyni
Screenplay
Rykmentin murheenkryyni
Producer
Rykmentin murheenkryyni
Director
Syyllisiäkö?
Producer
Olenko minä tullut haaremiin
Producer
Olenko minä tullut haaremiin
Director
Tulitikkuja lainaamassa
Producer
Tulitikkuja lainaamassa
Director
Kuriton sukupolvi
Producer
Lapatossu
Producer
Lapatossu
Director
As Dream and Shadow…
Producer
As Dream and Shadow…
Screenplay
As Dream and Shadow…
Director
Asessorin naishuolet
Producer
Alfred Haaravirta's worries begin, when his longtime housekeeper dies. So Alfred sends a letter to his old friend Matilda and asks her to be his new housekeeper. But Matilda misunderstands the letter to be a proposal of marriage.
Asessorin naishuolet
Director
Alfred Haaravirta's worries begin, when his longtime housekeeper dies. So Alfred sends a letter to his old friend Matilda and asks her to be his new housekeeper. But Matilda misunderstands the letter to be a proposal of marriage.
Pohjalaisia
Producer
Pohjalaisia
Screenplay
Pohjalaisia
Director
Kaikenlaisia vieraita
Producer
Young heiress' spendthrift nephew turns her manor into a boarding house for the summer. Suddenly the heiress returns...
Kaikenlaisia vieraita
Screenplay
Young heiress' spendthrift nephew turns her manor into a boarding house for the summer. Suddenly the heiress returns...
Kaikenlaisia vieraita
Director
Young heiress' spendthrift nephew turns her manor into a boarding house for the summer. Suddenly the heiress returns...
Onnenpotku
Producer