Juhani Niemelä

평범한 주부 '잉케리'는 밥투정하는 남편의 말에 잔뜩 화가 나서 머리를 프라이팬으로 내려치는 사고를 저지른다. 당황한 잉케리는 쓰러진 남편을 집에 버려두고, 두 언니들과 무작정 길을 떠난다. 도피 여행을 통해 잉케리는 한때 반항적이고 자유로웠던 젊은 날을 회상하게 되고, 자신이 원하는 삶을 되찾기 위한 노력을 시작하게 되는데...

The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who loved beautiful women and was loved by beautiful women. A man who enjoyed speed, American cars, applause and alcohol and who finally lost everything but his unique voice.

우정에 관한 인간미 넘치는 아키 카우리스마키의 신작으로 올해의 꼭 봐야 할 영화. 시리아 난민 칼레드는 석탄 화물선에 잠입하여 헬싱키에 밀입국한다. 망명신청이 기각된 그는 거리에서 지내야 하는 처지가 된다. 괴짜 핀란드인 위크스트룀은 칼레드를 데려와 자신이 운영하는 식당에 고용한다.

The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.

Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the western capercaillie, kinds of birds, he indeed makes a scientific discovery.

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.

Tomi finds himself in love with two women and his wife Maria finds herself in a situation where she has to deal with the fact that Tomi is the love of her life.

핀란드 헬싱키. 고도로 번영한 도시에서 일개 경비원으로 살아가는 코이스티넨. 마치 채플린 영화 속 방랑자 같은 모습의 그는 자신이 소외된 부유한 세상 속으로 들어갈 기회를 엿보고 있는 고독한 남자다. 그러나 동료들과 익명의 조직은 그의 소박한 희망을 차례로 망가뜨리기 시작한다. 그들은 코이스티넨의 직분을 이용해 범죄를 계획하면서 그가 오랫동안 사랑을 갈망해 왔다는 사실을 알아채고는 팜므파탈의 여성을 접근시킨다. 이 사건은 결국 코이스티넨을 나락으로 떨어뜨리고 그는 직장, 자유, 꿈 모든 것을 잃게 되는데.... 와 에 이은 핀란드 3부작의 마지막 편으로, 한 외로운 남자의 이야기가 아키 카우리스마키 특유의 유머감각과 내러티브를 통해 펼쳐진다. 외로움에서 벗어나고 싶은 남자 코이스티넨은 한 여자와 그녀의 친구들을 관찰하기 위해 야간 경비원과 직업을 바꾼다. 그녀를 멀리 떠나보내고 싶지 않은 마음에, 그는 침묵을 고수하며 자신의 자유마저 포기한다. 감정의 단절을 응시하는 아키 카우리스마키의 미니멀리즘적 영화.

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...

In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon abandons the baby. The next day the infant is brought to the hospital where Ritva works. Troubled with shame, Ritva finds consolation from a dying priest.

A story of the lives of Aino and Oskar Kallas.

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

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.

Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange request: he wants Esa to maltreat him. Esa accepts this request, but he is not aware of Lindström's bad intentions.

Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?

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!

TV movie from 1987.

TV movie from 1987. Based on Hella Wuolijoki's play of the same name from 1940.

Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he refuses to reveal his accomplice's name. On his first leave on prison Nieminen finds Varjola in a small town, where he has became the mayor. Varjola, of course, is shocked to see his old friend again.

Young Alex Sammako has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to their rural home, land them back in the lap of their locally notorious family. Alex wants nothing to do with them. He is in love with Mirja, whose family is not that different from the Sammakos, but who shares Alex's viewpoints and feelings. Not helping matters is a police department convinced that all Sammakos are bad, and the family itself, pressuring Alex to follow in their murky footsteps.

After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless to really sort out any of his problems — a suitcase filled with women's clothes, a flirtatious female roommate, and no money to buy food since he was prepared for full room & board in Austria.