Sanna Fransman
Nacimiento : 1960-09-05, Tampere, Finland
Pia Holvisalo
In this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the city to his summer cottage with his children and a lady next door, a divorced university teacher is forced to pick up a young delirious woman from the roadside. He soon falls in love with her, only to find out she is a sought-after deserter from a violent guerilla army.
Leila Savolainen
The company's regional manager has had enough of the fast pace of business and the frivolous patterns. He leaves the office sauna for a booze run at the behest of his boss. Drunk and driving his own car, even he doesn't have to. The situation becomes a thrilling chase that ends in a breathalyzer test and all-round relief as things fall into place. The booze run becomes a turning point in the life of the group's regional manager.
Woman Dancing
Narra la amistad y desventuras de tres curiosos artistas sin blanca en el París bohemio. Marcel, un escritor sin trabajo que se dedica a recoger botellas vacías, Rodolfo, un pintor albanés sin papeles, y Schaunard, un compositor irlandés. Los tres intentan sobrevivir a su mala situación económica ayudándose mutuamente.
Sanna Pöllänen
A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!
Secretary (uncredited)
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
Widow
En Helsinki, dieciocho hombres, diecisiete de los cuales se llaman Frank, deciden abandonar el barrio de trabajadores en el que llevan una vida triste y gris para instalarse en un barrio al otro lado de la ciudad, cerca del mar, que representa para ellos una especie de "El Dorado".
Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially vulgar black humour.
Jon's girlfriend
Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too.
Päivi
A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.
Varuslotta
Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
TV play about the legend of Lalli.
Susanna Mäkinen