Eeva-Liisa Haimelin

Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people.

An asphalt contractor, who has sacrificed his life to make a profit, finds himself in a financial dead-end. The ever gentle-minded road engineer Rauno Kannisto is hired to the construction site, to build a road that cuts through the vast forests by the Russian border. He knows nothing of the financial difficulties. Soon, Rauno finds himself in a situation where he doesn't know which way to turn. The sub-contractor becomes the main contractor, workers are loaded in containers from the other side of the border, and the contractor's wife has a smile that makes you lose your sleep. Middle of the Road is a dark comedy about loyalty and greed.

Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.

Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.

야간열차를 타고 ‘헬싱키’로 향하던 중년의 ‘남자’는 마을에 도착한 첫날, 공원 벤치에 앉아 잠시 쉬던 중 자신의 인생을 송두리째 바꿔놓을 사고를 당한다. 소지품은 물론 신분증하나 없는 맨 몸으로 병원으로 실려간 이름 없는 ‘남자’는 생명이 위험한 상태. 오전 5시 12분. 온몸이 붕대에 휘감겨진 ‘남자’는 결국 사망선고를 받는다. 그러나 의사들이 자리를 비운 사이, 의식을 회복한 ‘남자는 무작정 병원을 나오는데... 직업도, 돈도, 그리고 기억마저 없는 ‘남자’는 병원에서 나온 뒤 인적 드문 길가에서 정신을 잃는다. 그가 도착한 곳은 거리의 부랑아들과 가난한 이웃들이 함께 살아가는 마을. ‘남자’는 마을의 가난한 이웃들을 도우며 사는 구세군의 여인 ‘이루마’를 만나 그녀와 사랑에 빠진다. 그리고 이루마와의 사랑을 통해 점차 활기차게 변해간다. 여전히 아무것도 기억하지 못하지만, 그에게는 새로운 인생이 시작되는데...

This very serious drama, based on a true incident, explores the unremitting labor which put a young mother living in rural isolation into the situation of being charged with having thrown her children down a well. Her husband is an unimaginative, work-obsessed man who cannot see that her constant hard work without any support or sympathy from anyone is driving the sensitive woman to consider suicide. When the loutish fellow discovers that his wife and three children are missing, he calls the police, and a manhunt begins. The police discover the oldest boy alive, and find that the mother tried to drown herself, but has survived. The two younger children remained missing.

Based on Franz Kafka's famous novel, director Jaakko Pakkasvirta created this interpretation of the woebegone Josef K., who is trapped in an ever-increasing labyrinth of double talk and bureaucratic nonsense in his efforts to reach the castle. As Josef seeks to make an appointment to see the ruler Herr Klamm inside his inaccessible abode, he becomes enmeshed in abuse from lowly villagers and bureaucrats alike. His endless false starts toward the castle's enigmatic interior are partly offset by a few sexual encounters but nothing alleviates his role as a victim of forces beyond his control.

A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a large weight from their shoulders.

Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.