Short documentary about finnish movie director Visa Mäkinen. There is photos from family album and short clips where Visa Mäkinen is working behind the camera. There is also clips from his most famous movies, and actors, colleague and a film critic telling small anecdotes about Visa Mäkinen.
Directed by Åke Lindman, Shot in Cyprus (1965) is a romantic drama. Onni Lintula (Åke Lindman), a journalist interested in ancient sights and a glacier, has joined the Cypriot peacekeeping force. On the beach, she falls in love with the local beauty Stalo (Demetra Demetri), whom she sees rising from the sea like the reborn Aphrodite. Despite the turbulent situation, strict moral rules and the obstruction of Stalo’s brother (Andreas Nicolis), Onni and Stalo find each other.
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.
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.
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.
